Friend Bloom voices Harry in satire with royal subjects
They’re close neighbours and reportedly even friends — but surely Prince Harry won’t be too happy about actor Orlando Bloom’s latest project.
Bloom voices Harry in the new satirical cartoon series The Prince.
The trailer dropped overnight and shows the royals, drawn with exaggerated features, as pampered simpletons waited on hand and foot by their Buckingham Palace servants.
Created by comedian and writer Gary Janetti, who gained a cult following online for impersonating William and Kate’s young son Prince George on Instagram, the cartoon focuses on the 8-year-old as he navigates life in the palace and at school.
Harry and Meghan make an appearance in the trailer, inspecting apartments in their new home of LA.
“This might be the smallest palace I’ve ever been in,” says Harry, as voiced by Bloom.
Wife Meghan, voiced by Condola Rashad, tells him it’s an apartment — but he still doesn’t get it.
“Yes, an apartment palace, I know that. Lots of tiny palaces inside one big palace.”
The dimwitted portrayal is a surprising new role for Bloom, given he and Prince Harry are now close neighbours in the exclusive neighbourhood of Montecito, California.
Bloom told The Hollywood Reporter in August 2020 he was nervous about the role, saying: “I’m a British boy who’s very proud of my roots.”
But he said wife Katy Perry had convinced him: “Katy saw one bit of it and was like, ‘You’ve got to do this’.”
Bloom said he hadn’t yet met Harry when he signed on to the project.
“This guy is so nice, and I think he’s got a great sense of humour. I hope he maintains that through this because they’re sort of on a pedestal. We’re showing real adoration to them in one form or another.” —
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