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Pay List 2003, Sunday Telegraph Magazine (UK), November 2, 2003
scans by Michelle
125= £6m, Orlando Bloom (film, age 26)
Bloom's first cinema role was as a rent boy in the 1997 film Wilde, when he
was at drama school; he had already appeared on TV in London' Burning (note: he
has denied this) and Casualty. Then he auditioned for the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, winning the role of the Elf Legolas Greenleaf. It has been a
whirlwind ever since. Still only 26, Bloom has swiftly graduated into the
top-pay league of British film stars. Reportedly paid between £2m and £3m a
film, in the past year he has made Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl, a critical and box-office success. His latest role is Paris in
Wolfgang Petersen's film Troy. Between them, these two films should bring him
at least £5m. We add his fees for the lower-budget films Ned Kelly and The
Calcium Kid. Bloom, who once said, "I came into acting because of the women,"
(note: he has denied this too) should have no shortage of suitors.
New entry.
And on page 42 there is a list of the top ten earners in movies. Orlando is
5th, below Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ewan McGregor, Sir Ridley Scott and Patrick
Stewart. In the writing below, it begins:
The highest new entry is Orlando Bloom. Plucked from nowhere to star as
Legolas Greenleaf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama graduate has seen his box-office worth rise rapidly in
Hollywood.
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