Orlando Bloom would 'hate' to see someone else play Legolas in a new Lord of the Rings film

Orlando Bloom would "hate" to see someone else play Legolas in a new Lord of the Rings film.

The 48-year-old actor portrayed the elf in three Lord of the Rings films in the early 2000s and again in the Hobbit films a decade later, and while his former co-star Andy Serkis is returning to J.R.R. Tolkein's fantasy world with The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, he insisted he hasn't been approached to be part of the project.

Asked about the film on Today, he said: “I have not heard a peep, actually. I don’t know. I know it’s focusing on Gollum, so anything’s possible.

“It’s such an amazing part. I’m so grateful to have been a part of those movies. But I haven’t heard.

"Listen, I’d hate to see anyone else play Legolas, you know what I mean? What are they going to do? Are they going to put somebody else in as Legolas?

“With AI they can do anything these days!”

But he jokingly quipped AI hadn't been part of showing his extreme physical transformation in his latest film The Cut.

He added: “I didn’t do that in The Cut, by the way.”