Lee Pace and Orlando Bloom
No matter what is going on in their own lives, actors must be able to put themselves in another person’s shoes and act according to that person’s wants and needs. Every role needs to be able to do this. Because Lee Pace and Orlando Bloom are only two years apart in age, we can only guess how long it took Lee Pace to get used to playing Orlando Bloom’s father.
Lee Pace and Orlando Bloom play the father and son, Thranduil and Legolas, in the movies based on “The Hobbit.” Bloom plays Legolas, and Pace plays Thranduil. Even though they are only two years apart in age, for the movie to work, they had to act in ways that were completely different from each other.