Late Night with James Corden is filming in London this week. Possibly by coincidence, he had a very Commonwealth couch on Monday with Australian Cate Blanchett, English Orlando Bloom and Irish Niall Horan. It also, of course, meant a mini Lord of the Rings reunion for Cate (the majestic Galadriel) and Orlando (the hottest elf in town, Legolas). When James asked Orlando about his first impression of Cate, Orlando admitted to life imitating art: not only did Legolas have a huge crush on Galadriel, but Orlando did on Cate, as well. Unfortunately, as James pressed them both, Cate admitted she didn’t know who he was. Ouch.

On Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, which was taped in London, the 41-year-old actor joined Cate Blanchett on the guest couch and confessed that he had a huge crush on her while the two were filming The Lord of the Rings.

When asked what his first impression of Blanchett was when she was playing Galadriel and he was portraying Legolas in LOTR, Bloom admitted, “I can’t think — I had such a crush. I had the biggest crush on you.”

Taken aback by the confession, Blanchett tried to give Bloom an out, saying, “Well, it was your character!”

Bloom stuck to his story, exclaiming, “No, it was me!”

Bloom noted that he was about 21 years old at the time of the filming and was intimidated by Blanchett, more than five years his senior. “What was I, 110?” the 49-year-old actress quipped.

The crush wasn’t mutual, but that may just be because Blanchett didn’t know who Bloom was for a large portion of her three weeks on set.

“I didn’t recognize you, because the first time I saw you, you had hair — like Fabio hair and blue eyes,” Blanchett recalled. “And then I just saw you — who is this really cute guy out of drama school — and I didn’t put two and two [together].”

Bloom chimed in, “And I was just walking around spying on her from the corner of the room — in a non creepy way.”

[From ET]

I really like Orlando, as most of you know, and there are times I find him charming. But the dude has no game. If you watch the clip below, he clumsily flirted with Cate and he was just so awkward. Cate, for her part, kept trying to bail him out but he wouldn’t take the bait. It’s actually kind of cute because it seemed like they regressed back to who they were when they first met. But I get why Orlando and Katy Perry work, they’re both kind of dorks. Adorable dorks, but dorks.

I don’t think Orlando is hurting about his crush on Cate remaining unrequited, though. Just a few weeks ago, Katy took a breather from her Witness Tour to pop over to London to see him. And just in case we forgot how hot they were for each other, Katy ‘accidentally’ left a racy comment on his public Instagram – oops! *giggle* Orlando is in London presently because he’s performing in the West End in Killer Joe. The reviews are really mixed, both on his performance and the play itself. I haven’t seen it, so I can’t weigh in on his performance, but he sure looks good.

Mighty the Pup pic!

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