Orlando Bloom on filming intimate scene with Rooney, Kate Mara: 'It was a sincere sort of moment'

Orlando Bloom just got candid about filming an intimate scene with Rooney Mara and Kate Mara for a new movie, Bucking Fastard.

On Friday, September 18, the 49-year-old actor attended the San Sebastian Film Festival to promote his upcoming film, where he was asked about his experience of filming an intimate scene involving the actresses.

In response, Orlando said there was “such simplicity to the characters and [their] carnal desires, but also an innocence to the sisters.”

“My character, the Bucking Fastard, is sensitive too. And he’s quite quickly out of his depth in some ways. It was a very sincere sort of moment that was created," he added, as per Variety.

The German filmmaker, Werner Herzog, also shared his recollections about filming the scene.

“There are moments when a director has to step back. In the love scene, I said to Orlando: ‘You are in bed, and you have two women in your arms. How you deal with it, I cannot give instructions,’” Werner said. 

“It is beautiful because it has such charm and depth," he added.

“Bucking Fastard is about two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke (Kate Mara, Rooney Mara), who are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams,” the film’s synopsis reads. 

"They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.”