"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies"
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The subtext reads like post-franchise self-diagnosis. Bloom came up in an era when mega-series (Pirates, Lord of the Rings) could define a career in one sweep. The upside is cultural saturation; the cost is being locked into a narrow frequency: spectacle, quips, swordplay, mythic stakes. When he says "then you do it and go from there", he's describing a craft-first workflow that contrasts with the celebrity economy's usual logic (bigger budget, louder visibility, safer return).
"I'm looking forward to doing some smaller movies" lands as both an aesthetic preference and a reputational strategy. Smaller films signal risk, specificity, and adult ambition; they offer room for contradiction, failure, and strange edges - the stuff that can recalibrate how an audience reads you. It's also a subtle bid for durability: franchises make icons, but character-driven projects make careers that age well. Bloom isn't renouncing the blockbuster machine; he's negotiating with it, asking to be seen as an actor again, not just a familiar silhouette in a familiar costume.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bloom, Orlando. (2026, January 17). Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yeah-i-mean-the-material-directors-the-other-cast-34296/
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Bloom, Orlando. "Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yeah-i-mean-the-material-directors-the-other-cast-34296/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yeah-i-mean-the-material-directors-the-other-cast-34296/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.




