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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film"

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Bloom is doing two things at once here: reminding you he already has the mileage (yes, he’s carried swords for a living) while quietly lobbying for a different kind of legitimacy. The line pivots on that small, defensive “but,” which separates “prop competence” from “authorial burden.” He’s not talking about fighting choreography; he’s talking about being entrusted with the center of gravity.

The name-drop matters. “A Ridley Scott film” isn’t just a budget tier or a director’s credit - it’s a brand of seriousness: sweat, scale, mud, history-as-spectacle, and a set where the camera and the logistics are merciless. Scott’s epics demand actors who can anchor huge frames without getting swallowed by them. So Bloom’s phrasing - “full responsibility” - reads like an audition in sentence form. He’s positioning himself as more than the photogenic figure in someone else’s fantasy machine.

There’s also a shrewd awareness of his own typecasting. Bloom’s early stardom made him synonymous with the elegant swordsman: light on his feet, romantic, slightly untouchable. Invoking prior sword work acknowledges that audience memory while nudging it aside: the next step isn’t another blade, it’s the weight of command - carrying story, tone, and credibility in a production engineered to dwarf individual performers.

In context, it’s an actor trying to graduate from franchise icon to durable craftsman, using humility as strategy and a prestige director as the measuring stick.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bloom, Orlando. (2026, January 17). I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-done-movies-with-a-sword-before-but-i-havent-33386/

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Bloom, Orlando. "I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-done-movies-with-a-sword-before-but-i-havent-33386/.

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-done-movies-with-a-sword-before-but-i-havent-33386/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Orlando Bloom (born January 13, 1977) is a Actor from England.

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