BY: Amanda Jane Stern

English actor Orlando Bloom broke through to worldwide audiences with his role as Legolas in The Lord of The Rings films. His sex appeal is undeniable with following roles including Paris in 2004’s Troy, as salesman Drew Baylor opposite Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, and even as a nearly 30-something Romeo in a a Broadway version of Romeo and Juliet.

After a brief marriage to supermodel Miranda Kerr, the 44-year-old Bloom is now father to his wife Katy Perry’s first child. But even as he has settled into domestic life, Bloom has continued to take projects that put his physique and charm on display. 

Let’s take a look at some of his upcoming projects and then look back at some of his sexiest scenes.

Upcoming:

The Prince

In this animated sitcom created for HBO Max, Bloom will voice Prince Harry. The series was created by Gary Janetti (a writer for Family Guy, and an Executive Producer on Will and Grace), who will voice a six-year-old Prince George. The series was inspired by Janetti’s viral Instagram account where he imagined witty captions from Prince George in response to news stories regarding the royal family.

The rest of the royal family voice cast includes Condola Rashād (of TV’s Billions, and the Juliet to Bloom’s Romeo in the 2013 Broadway play) as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; Sophie Turner as Princess Charlotte; Dan Stevens (of Downton Abbey, and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast) as both Prince Charles and Prince Philip; and Iwan Rheon (the villainous Ramsay Bolton in HBO’s Game of Thrones) as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

 

Needle in a Timestack

This science fiction film about love and time travel is based on the short story by Hugo winning author Robert Silverberg (he wrote the novel The Positronic Man, which was adapted into the 1999 Robin Williams sci-fi vehicle Bicentennial Man).

It is directed by John Ridley, an Oscar-winning screenwriter for 12 Years a Slave, and behind the Los Angeles riot documentary Let it Fall).

In addition to Bloom, the ensemble includes Freida Pinto (who previously worked with director Ridley on the Showtime miniseries Guerilla), Hamilton actor Leslie Odom Jr. (now an Oscar nominee for One Night In Miami), and Cynthia Erivo (an Academy award nominee for Harriet).

Principal photography wrapped back in Summer 2018, so it’s unclear when this film will make its way out of post-production, or when it could get a tentative release date

Sexiest:

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The same year that Bloom wrapped up his Middle Earth adventure, he jumped over to adventure on the high seas as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Starting the series as a blacksmith’s apprentice, Bloom certainly knows how to forge his sword. His first duel scene with Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow in the blacksmith’s shop is such a well choreographed thrillride that we can forgive Bloom for the watered down end to his love story with Keira Knightley’s Elizabeth Swann. Seriously, at the conclusion of his character arc in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Bloom is cursed to only see his love once every ten years. And when he comes ashore, do we see a fiery night of passion? No! —we get a so-so reconciliation scene of him meeting a son he’s never seen before.

Carnival Row

As the fairy Vignette Stonemoss, Cara Delevingne flaps her wings and bares it all for Bloom’s human detective, Inspector Rycroft “Philo” Philostrate.

In the third episode of this Amazon Prime fantasy series, we learn how Bloom and Delevingne’s characters had fallen in love during wartime. The episode was directed by Anna Foerster, who has also helmed a smattering of Outlander episodes.

Bloom later admitted that filming this sex scene was “awkward.”

While, outside of the fantasy genre, interspecies sex comes with a definite “ick factor,” there’s a Faun/Human sex scene four episodes later that’s also equal parts erotic and tender. 

Easy “Utopia” episode

The sex scenes throughout this Netflix anthology series from mumblecore icon Joe Swanberg run the full gambit from genetically tame to wildy NC-17.

In the 6th episode of Season 1, married couple Tom (Bloom) and Lucy (the Swedish-American actress Malin Åkerman, best known as Silk Spectre II in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen) decide to have a threesome. Through Tinder, they connect with Kate Micucci’s (of Garfunkel and Oates) Annie. 

The scene manages not to fall into the usual threesome cliches. Plus we get a great view of Bloom’s abs.