Orlando Bloom Fulfills Childhood Dreams  7/3/06

British actor Orlando Bloom has fulfilled his childhood fantasy of being Errol Flynn while filming a swashbuckling stunt on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

The 29-year-old was thrilled at the opportunity to mimic big-screen legend Flynn's jump from a mast. During shooting, one scene required Bloom to plunge a dagger into a sail and then slide down it.

The star says, "It was one of my boyhood dreams to copy Flynn. I was harnessed to wires to stop me flying off the sail - but it was tricky.

"I was only 20 feet from the ground, rather than 100. I jumped from the mast and landed on the sail. I didn't even think about it going wrong."