Jun 24, 2006 01:03
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
~Edward Arlington Robinson
I haven't seen a lot of Orlando Bloom interviews (other than the LOTR dvr specials) so with the Tonight Show interview tonight I alternated between glee and dismay. On the positive list: he's charming, self-deprecating, funny and can take a joke made at his expense. On the negative list: he fidgets. A lot. Like a fidgety-fidgeting thing. Like a toddler on crack. He touches his face too much. His laugh is just on the border of being too much. Did I mention that he fidgets a lot? Plus, my husband thinks he has gay mannerisms. He didn't actually say that. What he actually did was turn to me and say, "Is Orlando Bloom gay?" My look of amused incredulity must have answered his question. When I could find my voice I reminded him that Mr. Bloom is, in fact, with Kate Bosworth ("You know, honey. That girl from Blue Crush."). His response, "Well, he's not gay. But sometimes..." and he just trailed off there. He didn't finish the sentence, but I knew what he was thinking. I snorted and made some comment about there being a lot of fanfic writers who would agree with him.
You know, I don't know how actors and actresses do press junkets. They get asked the same damned questions over and over and over again. You know the interviewer knows the answer already, if they're worth their damned salt. Are you seriously telling me that any one of the screaming fangirls in the audience didn't know that Orlando has broken his back before? That Jay hadn't heard this story? No, he had. He thought, for whatever reason, that it bore repeating. Okay, dude. That was, like, 8-10 years ago. A few things have happened in this kid's life since then.
All in all, it was a good interview. He didn't say anything I didn't know, haven't read somewhere or seen before. Still, the fact that I was watching him say them instead of reading them was novel for me. Plus, I have to pat myself on the back for restraining myself from actually squeeing. *g* Yeah, I'm a big goof. Sometimes I just have to shake my head and wonder at the capacity of my stupidity.