9:10AM, Aug 04, 2005
Lord Of The Rings heartthrob Orlando Bloom has admitted he is glad to lay down his sword at last.
Bloom is playing his first contemporary role in director Cameron Crowe's new film.
The 28-year-old has starred as a warrior in the trilogy, the epic Troy and the Crusader drama Kingdom Of Heaven.
In his latest role in Elizabethtown, due for release later this year, he plays a young Kentucky aristocrat.
"First and foremost, it was great to do a film without a sword or a horse or suit armor," he told a news
conference in Tokyo.
In Crowe's semi-autobiographical film, Bloom plays a young man who begins to know his family only after his father dies.
He is helped along by a perky flight attendant, played by Kirsten Dunst.
It is the Briton's first time playing an American, for which he enlisted an accent coach.
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