Orlando and Katy Perry
For Orlando Bloom, living in these “new circumstances”—amid the COVID-19 pandemic—has been nothing short of “surreal.”
But as unnerving life is under quarantine, it also gave him the opportunity to just hit the pause button, and spend some time in introspection.
“To be honest, I was working a lot and have found some real solace and a kind of reset. It feels like a reset that we all needed; a chance to reflect on what’s important and what we have been doing,” the movie star said in a recent interview in “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“And I just hope that, you know, we can keep that. I hope that thinking can continue, through even if there are vaccines already in place, and people want to go about their lives,” he added.
Orlando also acknowledged the privilege he has, saying that there are people who are having a rougher time out there.
“I feel incredibly blessed. Obviously, you’re (Jimmy) in New York and there are people there who probably couldn’t get out of their apartments for weeks on end. So I have been feeling really grateful,” he said.
One of those blessings—the biggest one as of late—is the new baby on the way. His fiancee, pop star Katy Perry, is expected to give birth anytime soon, and Orlando can’t wait to welcome their baby girl.
“I’m so excited to have a little daddy’s girl … that ‘love of your life’ feeling. Well, I hope she’s going to love me as much as I’m going to love her,” said Orlando, who described Katy as a “force of nature.” “You wouldn’t know she’s pregnant other than the giant belly in front of her!”
His first kid, 9-year-old Flynn, with his ex-wife model Miranda Kerr, is just as excited. “He has a couple of brothers (Miranda’s sons with her second husband), but this is going to be his first sister!” he said.
The 43-year-old British actor is a goodwill ambassador for the humanitarian agency Unicef, whose job, Orlando said, has never been more crucial.
“The world is suffering from this pandemic. And when we think about how we feel at home, you can imagine and multiply that by 10 or even more. There are already a lot of huge issues, then you add the COVID-19 element on top,” he said. “But Unicef is on the ground all over the world, trying to help people and giving them PPEs (personal protective equipment).”
Orlando has been working with the said organization for 11 years now, and he sees to it that he goes on a field trip with them at least once a year. “So I can witness firsthand the work that they do on the field to save the lives of children and women in the most desperate situations,” he said.
“We do some documentation, put the message out and hope people can support,” related Orlando, who had two films out last month—the war drama “The Outpost” and “Retaliation,” where he plays a survivor of sexual abuse.
The 43-year-old actor stressed that our actions and problems are all interconnected.
“Obviously, it’s so challenging at home, but we also have the foresight that we’re a global community. And when one part of the community is suffering, the whole thing suffers. Grappling with that idea is challenging,” he said.