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Orlando Bloom on Choosing Roles: Bloom says he?s trying to turn down roles that don?t help him grow. ?I admire other actors who just do stuff for the hell of it. Like I saw ?Lords of Dogtown? last night. I really loved it. I thought it was great. It was cool. It was gritty; it was punchy. I?ll tell you that, yeah, I?ve always tried to make choices that will help me grow as an actor and as a human being and everything else.

It?s kind of what I?m living.

But I also wouldn?t restrict myself to just doing something crazy and silly just for the hell of it. What I?m saying is there?s something to learn from everything and I don?t want to be afraid to fail. If I start being afraid to fail, then I?m in serious trouble because I?m starting to just try and please people. I don?t want to ever feel like I?m doing stuff for the sake of trying to please other people because then I?m not taking care of me and that gets dangerous. But I do try to keep making choices that I think excite me.?

Orlando Bloom on ?Haven:? ??Haven?s? a really cool movie that we?re trying to get to come out early next year,? said Bloom, adding, ?It took a while because a smaller movie. Money doesn?t just fall off trees and it takes a lot longer. There were issues with some of that stuff, but I?m so proud of it as a film. I did it between ?Troy? and ?Kingdom of Heaven.? It?s this crazy, kooky little movie. I?m really, really proud of the work that I did in it, and that everyone did in it, and of the director who was a first time, a 24-year-old kid when he directed it.

It?s just out there.

It?s an island movie. It?s set in the Cayman Islands and that?s a real eclectic group of people who live in the Cayman Islands. It?s American, it?s English, it?s French, it?s whatever. It?s got a piece of everything.

It?s not a romance. It?s sort of like a ?Romeo and Juliet? with a few other undercurrents, like the underbelly of an island where it?s a tax haven, so what does that bring to the table? There?s a huge culture. There?s race. And there?s romance in the sense that there?s that unrequited love and stuff. It?s pretty cool.?