Orlando Bloom Reveals Why He Turned Down Hosting 'SNL'

Orlando Bloom was offered a Saturday Night Live hosting gig on back in 2007 after the release of one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and he’s revealing why.

“[It] was just like, partly my dyslexia, partly like that window of time where I couldn’t even … think straight and see the wood through the trees,” Orly said during a recent appearance on the Howard Stern Show. “I would love to [host] Saturday Night Live now.”

“You’ve got to read and then also … I didn’t have perspective,” he added. “It’s like you’re in a burning car. When you’re in our business, you get into this burning car … and it’s like … you’re in the car and you’re like, ‘Wow, look at this, they love it.’ Then you go, ‘F— it’s hot. How the f— … I’ve got to get out of this burning car.’ The reality is you have to be able to get into the burning car, know that you’re getting into a burning car, put the suit on, have all this gel so you don’t get hot and burned. ‘Yeah, I’m driving this burning car!’”

“Then you have to get out of the burning car, make sure you’ve got a support team to make sure that you’re safe and happy,” he continued. “Then you go, ‘Okay, cool, I’ll get back into the burning car when I do.’ “

Today, he’d host the show “in a heartbeat. I’d love to.”

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