Orlando Bloom spoke Diversity On losing weight for upcoming boxing drama CutPremiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, .
Cut could be described as a weight loss thriller, approaching physical fitness from a body horror perspective. Bloom plays a boxer who, at the request of his domineering coach (John Turturro), resorts to increasingly drastic measures to lose weight before a crucial bout. The role, Pirates of the Caribbean The star is expected to lose more than 50 pounds in just a few months.
“Basically, I layered the food for a period of three months, right before the shoot, [when] “I was at my lightest,” Bloom explained. “I lost 110 pounds, and I was 300 pounds when I started. So I lost a lot of weight, and it was a tough mental experience. You feed someone tuna and cucumber long enough…” the actor trailed off.
Because the film was shot in reverse chronological order, Bloom struggled to gain weight as production wore on. “He came to us at his thinnest, and then he started eating,” director Sean Ellis explained. “He was eating calories for the 25 days we shot. Then it was edited in reverse.”
But Bloom felt the performance presented an “exciting” opportunity rather than a “scary” task. “I was more surprised by the mental aspect of it [it]”It's not like lack of sleep, it's not like calories are gone,” he said. “There's a lot going on in your brain,” Bloom added. “It was very difficult to live in that headspace for a while.”
Cut There's no release date yet, but “viewers looking for a decent boxing movie might be surprised.” Diversity drew attention to the rather extreme psychodrama. Bloom boasted of the premiere, “Someone in the line fainted!” while Ellis noted: “Yeah, someone fainted. I think we should put that on the movie poster.”