ORLANDO BLOOM lost nearly FOUR STONE to play the role of a boxer – leaving his superstar fiancee Katy Perry horrified.
Bloom stars as a retired fighter looking to make a comeback in the unreleased movie The Cut – which began filming in 2023.
TikTok / @menshealthukOrlando Bloom lost nearly four stone to play the role of a boxer[/caption]
TikTok / @menshealthukBloom lived off a crazy diet of tune and cucumber to shed the weight[/caption]
And the plot centres around Bloom’s character losing a dangerous amount of weight in order to fight again.
The British cinema legend revealed he lost 52lb – three and a half STONE – before filming had even started.
He told People: “I literally thought I was gonna die.”
Bloom was living off a diet of tuna and cucumber and had to actually film scenes from the end of the film at the start.
Director Sean Ellis said to Variety: “Your brain is starved of calories, basically.
“It was going to be impossible for him to work while dieting. So, he came to us at his lightest, and then he starts to eat.
“So that meant that we had to shoot the film [with] the ending first and the beginning of the movie at the end.
“Over the 25 days that we were shooting, he was putting on the calories. And then it’s edited in reverse.”
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Bloom, now 48, added: “I was more surprised about the mental aspect of [it], like the sleep deprivation, and not the depleted calories.
“There’s a lot going on in your brain living in that headspace for a while was very challenging.”
Even Bloom’s co-star Caitriona Balfe – who plays his on-screen wife in the film – was stunned by his gaunt face and body.
Balfe said: “The transformation was shocking – I was like, ‘You look like a raisin.’”
Director Ellis and lead Bloom revealed movie goers at the premiere passed out and fainted due to the film’s graphic nature.
And Bloom’s fiancee Perry – with whom he shares a four-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with – also found it tough viewing.
Bloom revealed the singer was left in tears after watching the particularly harrowing scenes.
He told Page Six: “She watched it and was like, ‘I need a stiff drink.’ She was really moved. She knew what it took.”
Bloom proposed to 40-year-old Perry in 2019 and welcomed their daughter a year later but have not yet married.
The Cut – with a screenplay by Justin Bull and story by Mark Lane – is yet to find a distributor or release date.
Instagram / @orlandobloomBloom in the movie The Cut[/caption]
GettyKaty Perry is engaged to actor Bloom[/caption]
instagram/katyperryPerry has been engaged to Bloom since 2019[/caption]
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