After playing the good guy in both the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “The Lord of the Rings” film series, the British actor is getting in touch with his nastier side for the latest big screen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel.
He plays the cunning Duke of Buckingham, an English nobleman who likes to stir things up at the French court of King Louis.
This time, Bloom was pleased to let his co-stars — Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans playing Athos, Porthos and Aramis — take the glory.
“They’re like the superheroes of their time and they get all the cool stuff and I get to totter around on a pair of heels, but it was exactly what I wanted to do,” said Bloom.
Bloom is married to Miranda Kerr, has an 8-month-old son Flynn and claims his family is bit like the three Musketeers, whose motto is “one for all and all for one.”
Paul W.S. Anderson’s movie “The Three Musketeers in 3D” opens in the UK on Wednesday.
The Associated Press sat down with a cleanly shaven Bloom to find out how much fun he had being bad.
