UNITED STATES
Hollywood Reporter

by Alex Ritman 11/10/2015

While he might be better known on screen for his skill with an Elvish bow and arrow or for prancing about pirate ships with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom is set to soon start shooting on a wholly different project.

In Romans, announced Tuesday, the British actor will star as Malky, a man still trying to come to terms with crippling insecurity resulting from childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a trusted and idolised priest. Based on real-life events, the story will see the combination of the abuse, the withdrawal of his mother’s love and abandonment of God set Malky’s life onto a twisted trajectory of violent employment, serial self-abuse and psychotic sexual jealousy. Malky must confronts the demons that have been haunting him for twenty years and makes the decision to forgive his abuser despite aching for violent revenge.

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