Orlando Bloom wanted to test himself for his latest adventure project. Not by eating something gross or visiting a new country. He wanted to risk death, and with not one but three extreme sports.
This image released by Peacock shows Orlando Bloom in an episode of the television series “ Orlando Bloom : To the Edge.” This image released by Peacock shows Chris Copeland and Orlando Bloom in an episode of the television series “ Orlando Bloom : To the Edge.” This image released by Peacock shows Orlando Bloom in an episode of the television series “ Orlando Bloom : To the Edge.” This image released by Peacock shows Orlando Bloom in an episode of the television series “ Orlando Bloom : To the Edge.
“I’m like a collector of experiences in some ways,” he says. “I’ve been remarkably gifted and fortunate to have some unique ones, but this was definitely like, ‘Oh, wow, I’m capable of this. Therefore I can do anything.’” “We all experience fear. It’s how we face this fear that defines us,” Bloom says in the first episode. “I never feel so alive being so close to death.”
Bloom battles ear pain to attempt the 100-foot freedive and practicing a breath exercise leaves him in tears, struggling and sweating. Freediving turns out to require a slowing heart, conserving energy and relaxing — the opposite of most sports.The rock climbing challenge sees a usual 2-3 year training process condensed into a week. There was added stress because Bloom broke his back in a fall in his 20s and really didn’t want to do that again.
“It wasn’t just as simple as like, ‘I’m just going to go with the flow here.’ No, I learned the tools. There are protocols,” he says. “There is a framework with which I was working. And while I was doing that, I was able to get into a rhythm, into a flow, and achieve things that I never thought I would ever do in my lifetime.”
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