Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
I remember seeing Katy wearing this beautiful pink dress and I was like, ‘Wow’
had a fun evening chatting and dancing and different things. And then we embarked on this rather remarkable journey that got us to where we are today, which has not by any means been a Hollywood love story that you might want to hear about. It’s taken its own course and gone on its own roller coaster of ups and downs.”
They broke up in February 2017 and reconciled in April the following year and became engaged in February last year. They revealed through the music video for Katy’s song Never Worn White that they were expecting their first child Previously he had dated the actress Kate Bosworth for three years and then began dating Miranda Kerr in 2007. They married in 2010, had their son the following year and divorced two years later.
During his marriage to Miranda, who is Australian, he spent a lot of time Down
Under and both he and Katy, he says, would consider moving there. “I love it there and I’d move there in a heartbeat,” he says now. “We’re about to bring a baby into a really unique and unusual world, so who knows? I think everybody’s exploring ideas and options so I wouldn’t rule Australia out. It’s right up there on my list of favourites.”
The Canterbury-born actor is still best known for his swashbuckling roles as Legolas in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film series and as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
He became interested in acting as a child when a dyslexia diagnosis led his mother to suggest drama classes. Early TV roles included Casualty and Midsomer Murders.
He won the part of Legolas just two days after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Now 43, he’s promoting his movie, the revenge thriller Retaliation, in which he plays an angry demolition worker who was sexually abused by a priest aged 12.
“I hope it will highlight compassion and empathy for people with mental illness because often we don’t understand why somebody is behaving in a certain way and we write them off as mentally unsound and therefore dangerous,” he says.