Entertainment News | Orlando Bloom to Be Honoured with Filming Italy International Award at Venice Film Festival

Washington DC [US], August 24 (ANI): Orlando Bloom, who will be attending the Venice Film Festival as part of the cast of Warner Herzog's competition title 'Bucking Fastard,' is set to be honoured with the Filming Italy International Award from Filming Italy -- Los Angeles during the Venice Film Festival, reported Variety.

Actor Bloom will receive the award on September 6.

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"It is a great honour for us to welcome Orlando Bloom to the latest edition of the Filming Italy Venice Award," said marketing guru and longtime Italian industry promoter Tiziana Rocca in a statement, as quoted by Variety.

Rocca, who heads Filming Italy and also leads the Taormina Film Festival, praised Bloom as "an actor of extraordinary charisma, capable of captivating audiences around the world with his elegance, talent and versatility," noting that he has "achieved international fame thanks to his participation in two of the greatest film sagas of all time: 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,'" as quoted by Variety.

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Bloom recently appeared in Sean Ellis' boxing thriller 'The Cut,' which he also produced through his production company Amazing Owl, and crime comedy caper 'Deep Cover,' a Prime Video U.K. Original movie directed by Tom Kingsley.

In 'Bucking Fastard,' Bloom plays Gareth Mulroney, the lover of inseparable, synchronised twin sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke (played by real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara) whom they obsess over after becoming tabloid sensations, according to the film's synopsis.

The upcoming 83rd Venice Film Festival will be held from September 2 to 12. (ANI)

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