[11樓中譯更新]08年10月30日開花把全部心思在放事業上 - Orlando Bloom中文站论坛

Kerly from Estonia sent in an article from the Estonian newspaper SL Õhtuleht, which she was kind enouogh to translate for us. She also says that this newspaper is considered leaning more to the Yellow press than anything else. So take the following with a big grain of salt:

Orlando Bloom has only time for business

Katrin Lust-Buchanan
London

When you usually meet the Hollywood heartthrob Orlando Bloom at fashion and movie parties, then he was at an unusual place this time in London: at the Hempel Hotel to support a real estate project called "Aquiatanium" in Dubai.

The total cost of this highly criticized project with such a posh name is £ 2.7 billion. It was launched without considering the recession and the bad situation on the real estate market and is a district of luxury apartments where one apartment costs about £ 2.5 million.

It may be useful to know that for that kind of money you can get quite a sumptuous villa even in the City. Many of the businessmen are still baffled not understanding why they should invest into so expensive real estate in Dubai. Orlando, who is connected to this weird endeavor explained why he has become a businessman.

A real estate project in Dubai – it sounds anything but you – a movie star Orlando Bloom.

I suppose it does, although I am really interested in real estate. Actually I have little entrepreneurial connections with this project in Dubai. The reason why I decided to support them was that I recently founded a production company.

Will acting not suffer with the business involved?

I really would like to reduce the share of acting a little bit and would rather see myself making the movies in the future. But business will not interrupt with anything: my involvement in this real estate project is very small and to be honest I have nothing to do with the entrepreneurial part of it. When I engaged myself with the project, my only thought was to get some connections in Dubai and make some PR for my name there.

A question from an entirely different area: how are the things with love in your life at the moment?

I have to admit honestly that as an actor it is very hard for me to keep some stability in relationships. I travel a lot in the world because of my work. I am also not the kind of a guy who likes women who do nothing but wait for me at home. All the women I have gone out with have had a career of their own and it has been hard to combine the lives of both of us. That was one of the reasons I wanted to do a production company so I could be a little bit more in one place.

It is difficult if both travel and meet once a month at London, New York or Paris