{"id":8113,"date":"2025-09-07T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8113\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:12:09","slug":"orlando-bloom-on-legolas-role-hate-to-see-recasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8113\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Bloom on Legolas role: \u2018Hate to see\u2019 recasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Orlando Bloom wants to play Legolas again in the upcoming Lord of the Rings film but admitted he hasn’t been approached for it. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Orlando Bloom would \u201chate\u201d to see someone else play Legolas in a new Lord of the Rings film.<\/p>\n

\n The 48-year-old actor portrayed the elf in three Lord of the Rings films in the early 2000s and again in The Hobbit films a decade later, and while his former co-star Andy
\n Serkis is returning to J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s fantasy world with The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, he insisted he hasn\u2019t been approached to be part of the project.\n <\/p>\n

Asked about the film on the Today programme, he said: \u201cI have not heard a peep, actually. I don\u2019t know. I know it\u2019s focusing on Gollum, so anything\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such an amazing part. I\u2019m so grateful to have been a part of those movies. But I haven\u2019t heard.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I\u2019d hate to see anyone else play Legolas, you know what I mean? What are they going to do? Are they going to put somebody else in as Legolas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 7 Sep, 2025 06:41 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10532,10537,156,593,9067,10533,10539,111,139,69,90,10531,10538,10535,10540,205,10534,10536,61,6730],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bloom","tag-else","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-hate","tag-legolas","tag-lord","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-orlando","tag-play","tag-recasting","tag-rings","tag-role","tag-see","tag-someone","tag-to","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}