Orlando Bloom Shares What He Knows About Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Series: ‘It’s Not A Remake’

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Orlando Bloom famously played Legolas the elf in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and he’s now sharing some intel on Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming “LOTR” series.

Bloom is no stranger to Amazon, given that his series “Carnival Row” airs on the streaming service. In a new interview with Collider, the 43-year-old actor revealed that he had the opportunity to speak with a producer on the series. “I had a few questions for him to begin with… and then I was like, ‘You know, I don’t need to know any more’,” he said.

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