Cafe Visitors See Acting in Full Bloom

VISITORS to a church cafe will not have been expecting to stumble across Hollywood star Orlando Bloom giving an acting lesson.

But those enjoying tea and scones at the cafe at St George’s West Church in Shandwick Place yesterday were treated to a display of the 31-year-old heart-throb’s professional prowess as he delivered an acting masterclass to his older sister Samantha, who debuts at this year’s Fringe.

Ms Bloom, 32, stars in one-woman show, A Cloud in Trousers by a Girl in a Suit. An adaptation of work by early 20th Century Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovski, it is the tale of unrequited love which fuses music, poetry and transvestism.

During rehearsals, as Samantha began to transform herself into the male mindset of Mayakovski, her brother mounted the stage to help.

Ms Bloom says she has no qualms about taking advice from her brother. She said: “He encourages me in everything I do and I like to ask his opinion.”

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