Orlando Bloom loves to play the bad guy

Actor Orlando Bloom says he signed on to 'The Three Musketeers' because he always wanted to play the bad guy.

The 34-year-old 'The Lord of the Rings' star, who plays the Duke of Buckingham in the swashbuckling adventure, admits
it was "liberating" playing such a different character to those he is usually offered, Contactmusic reported.

"I know I'm usually the good guy and that's why this was the direction I had been itching to go in. That's why I did the movie actually. I'm not sure I would have wanted to play D'Artagnan. I wanted to do something like play the bad guy.

"When I sat down with Paul Anderson and also with the producer, Jeremy Bolt, I hadn't read the script, yet they said, 'When we thought of this, we thought of you, and we were thinking this would be a really interesting turn, a real difference'. So, I read it and I just really enjoyed it. The bad guys have more fun, so much more fun, and it is totally liberating," he said.

The movie was shot in 3-D, technology which director Paul W S Anderson was already familiar with, and Bloom thinks it has got a cutting edge feel into it.