Who is the hottest Elf of this Earth? No, guys, it’s not Liv Tyler, we asked the ladies and they knew the answer: ORLANDO BLOOM! He was in a very good mood, when Hitkrant talked to him in New York!

You’ve given 2 years of your life to make The Lord Of The Rings – trilogy. How do you look back on that?

I don’t regard anything of course, because they were the most fantastic years of my career. Well, career… I’m just a starting actor. The Lord Of The Rings was my first opportunity to experience that world (the world of acting?) so I took that chance with both my hands.

You played Legolas very well, like a real Elf. How are you like a real Elf?

Me? I’m pretty positive and happy in life. I don’t smoke anymore for a while and I don’t drink, so according to that I’m getting pretty close, aren't I?

You look very different as Legolas and after part 1 of The Lord Of The Rings you were hardly recognized by people. Is that different now?

Yes since Pirates Of The Caribbean it is. Oh well, apparently they saw me as a dumb blonde, didn’t they? And there a lot of them, haha! No, seriously: because I played two tough roles in The Lord Of The Rings and in Pirates I‘ve had much more attention so I get recognized more.

Do you like that?

I talked about that with Johnny Depp once. I said to him: “isn’t it crazy how much actors and actresses get paid so much these days?” And then he said: “If you see how much of your privacy you will have to give up, you’ll talk differently !” I don’t really mind getting recognized by people. As long as it stays nice and it still is to me. I don’t get followed or something that often. They don’t dig in my private-life and lets keep it that way! I really want to keep my privacy.

In every movie you play in you have a sword. Is that on purpose?

Haha, no, really no. I don’t ask a director: “I get to have a swordscene, right? No? Oh, then I won’t do this movie!” Of course, it is cool to do, but a hot lovescene is too!

Didn’t you prefer that?

Haha, I knew that would be the next question! Uh… well, no, it doesn’t have to for me. Else they will get a whole other picture of me. There are enough pornoactors, aren’t there?

But would you be naked for a movie?

Totally naked? That doesn’t have to happen anymore in big Hollywood movies, right? No, if it is a “what-if-question”, I will say: I won’t do it. Why not? Sure, I will show you something, but until here and not any further.

Awwwww, then just your butt…….

Just for a moment…………

Well, I think showing your butt is very different than showing your front side. Butts are more common, I would say it like that. Different subject! 

Okay, okay… What will we see of you after The Lord Of The Rings?

I think Troy will come out in the Netherlands, won’t it? I play in it with another big hero of mine, Brad Pitt!

And Brad is, just like Johnny Depp with who you were in Pirates, a colleague-hunk of yours…

I don’t see myself yet as a true hunk… A true hunk is someone who is hot for women from 8 till 80 years old. Brad and Johnny are, but I’m not yet. And it doesn’t interest me at all. I didn’t become an actor hoping they would think I’m hot.

What will you do if you don’t get any roles offered?

Again, I’m really happy in life, but if I can’t get any roles anymore, I want to work behind the scenes or I would go working at a shootingclub again. Haha, that was my first job. It was very healthy, it was outside. Maybe I will just put on my blonde wig again and give classes shooting with a bow and arrow! Really, then I could make a lot of money!

Hundred years from now you will still be a hero, thanks to the three parts of Lord Of The Rings. How does that feel?

Unexplainable, really I can’t explain it. I’m very proud of it. A couple of months ago I had to do a couple of new scenes for part three in New-Zealand. That was again very emotional for me. I don’t think anything like that will happen again to me. And it’s an honour to me that I’m a hero in this movie. I used to watch heroseries on tv when I was little like The A-team and Knight Rider. Back then I already wanted to be like those leadactors. And I already did that a little. Didn’t I?