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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Orlando Bloom

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Politics, News, Celebrity, Music, Broadway, Society & Culture, Interview, Movies, Pop Culture, Tv & Film, Technology, Tv

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Orlando Bloom landed the role of Legolas in “The Lord of the Rings” just two days after graduating from drama school, and his career hasn’t slowed down since. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actor about that journey full of epic fantasy roles, his latest Amazon show “Carnival Row,” and his recent engagement to pop star Katy Perry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown Podcast.

0:04.4

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along again this week.

0:07.6

We've got a good one for you.

0:09.4

Hollywood A-lister, big name, Orlando Bloom, who's starring in a new series called Carnable

0:14.4

Row on Amazon.

0:16.3

I'm really interesting series that kind of brings together the Lord of the Rings vibe

0:20.6

with Farries, with him playing a sort of 19th century British detective, solving a murder

0:27.5

inside that universe.

0:29.6

I know that doesn't sound like it makes any sense, but he's going to explain it in just

0:33.0

a minute.

0:34.0

Also here with me to help explain what that means.

0:36.6

Producer of this great podcast, Maggie Law, hello Maggie.

0:38.9

Hey Willie, how's it going?

0:39.9

And the producer of our interview, the great Sylvie Haller Sylvie.

0:42.9

Hello.

0:43.9

We're so happy you're here.

0:44.9

Thank you for having us.

0:45.9

Welcome Sylvie.

0:46.9

Thank you.

0:47.9

So for people to understand what that means, Sylvie plans the interviews.

0:50.8

She researches the guests.

0:52.4

She helps come up with questions.

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