“It's Life or Death,” Orlando Bloom Says of His New Series ‘To the Edge’
Bloom discusses the stakes of his 3-episode docuseries and future projects like 'Deep Cover,' A24's 'Wizards!,' and 'The Cut.'
Orlando Blooms Shares the "Unusual" Premise of 'Deep Cover'
I definitely have to touch on two other things. I'm a big fan of your fellow castmates of Deep Cover, and I know you shot that. What was it about that project that said, “I want to do it?” And I know what it's about, but what do you want to tell people about it?
BLOOM: First of all, I love the cast. Wonderful people. Colin Trevorrow, who produces, called me and talked about [it]. The premise is Bryce Dallas Howard is a teacher who's teaching improvisation classes. Nick Mohammed is a banker who's looking for confidence, so he comes to the improvisation class, stumbles across it. I am a method actor who's out of work, like an actor who takes himself too seriously, who's in an improvisation class and is earnestly overserious. It is a comedy, hopefully funny enough for everybody. Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Ian McShane all have these kinds of wonderful, scene-stealing cameos.
It's just a really unusual premise of these three unknown people coming together. It starts off with Sean Bean, who's this basically crooked cop, as we had come to understand it, saying, “Hey, they sell blocks of cigarettes across the road in London, the black market. Go in and try to buy them, and if you buy them then we'll nab these people.” But because I’m method, I kind of escalate it. I’m like, “You think we want these soppy…? No. We want the real stuff.” And it suddenly turns into this massive underworld, underground drug chase with these people who have no idea what they're doing. So the circumstances are set for, hopefully, amusement and laughter. It's a sort of action-comedy caper, if you like. I thought that the script was excellently executed. And I thought that Tom Kingsley, the director, who's this great British director who did this show Stath Lets Flats, worked really well with Colin to make this show a great sort of spectacle. It was a wonderful, wonderful experience.
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