Orlando Bloom is one of those active users in social networkscapable of combining anecdotes from their day to day, trailers or behind-the-scenes videos of their latest movies or series or clips of their training sessions, more and when they are at the search for a role that requires a certain physique. Though Sylverster Stallone does it for pleasure, it is common to see Marvel stars as Chris Hemsworth y Brie Larson ponindose handles for their respective sagas and movies. In the case of Bloom, beyond showing off muscle and showing how he lifts weight, has served to remind us of one of his most tragic episodes.
Orlando Bloom trains and prepares to gain muscle and remembers a dark chapter in his life
The British actor, who has just finished shooting Red Right Hand with Garret Dillahunt and Andie MacDowell, he uploaded a video of his bodybuilding and exercise routine to his Instagram profile -which has thousands of views and likes-. Taking advantage of this exercise routine -the actor shows up to three different activities-, Bloom, married to Katy Perry, remembered the hardest episode of his lifeexplaining how I suffered an accident that It almost left him unable to walk through the gates of getting the role that would change his life. and his film career.
The interpreter, through what we might consider a story of overcoming, explains how when he turned 19 he broke his back and the doctors gave him the worst possible prognosis: he would never walk once more. “I broke my back when I was 19 and they said I would never walk once more”, starts the 45-year-old actor, in better physical shape than ever. This incident, which occurred in 1998almost left him in a wheelchair following falling from a height of three stories when trying to reach a roof. The blow was such that his spinal column was completely crushed and displaced in several places and points.
The actor survived the fall, and Thanks to the help of the doctors and a tough rehabilitation, he was able to walk once more despite the darkest predictions. and discouraging. According to Bloom, everything that has happened has taught him to appreciate life, shedding the recklessness of youth and reckless behavior. After that nightmare came his roles in sagas and films of The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbeanbecoming one of the stars of the new Hollywood.