What makes Orlando Bloom happy about reprising the role of Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest? Dont you think hes a bit more pirate and a bit less of a stick in the mud? the actor wondered rhetorically. I hope you do, because that was kind of the intention. There is a dark side to Will that I think sort of evolves a little bit because he starts to assume this pirate thing. Its like, Who is this pirate? And this time, he added, the footwear is much better. I get a pair of boots instead of those little shoes and stockings – which werent cool at all. For Bloom, a return to a hit franchise is familiar. His career was launched as Legolas, the archer in the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Pirates, he pointed out, was never intended as a trilogy; the original movie had lowly origins, inspired not by a Tolkien classic but by the Disneyland amusement-park ride. [More]