Strained relations

The charming Dearbhla Molloy talks to SHELLEY MARSDEN about her latest acting role, Orlando Bloom and working at Butlins..[...]

Is it different to work with a star like Orlando Bloom and someone less famous?

Not at all. He plays one of the sons but it’s another character who motors the emotion in the play. Orlando’s part is the quietest, but nonetheless an important one. I didn’t know Orlando beforehand; I had seen one episode of Lord of the Rings and that was it – I wouldn’t have recognized him if he’d sat beside me on the Tube. In the rehearsal room, all that fame stuff falls away though. He’s very modest, and extraordinarily hardworking, and willing and very eager. We are all immensely protective of Orlando; we’re not about to let anybody do him down in any way, or separate him from the other cast members or from the play as a whole.