Orlando Bloom Reveals Whether He Used a GLP-1 For His ‘Extreme’ Weight Loss in ‘The Cut’

Orlando Bloom says he used extreme methods to drop 30 lbs. in three months for his role as a boxer in The Cut — but stopped short of using any medication.

“It’s called The Cut because it’s about cutting weight, right? And the fight is how do you make that weight,” Bloom, 48, told Today Show host Craig Melvin during a Friday, Sept. 5 appearance on the NBC morning show. For the film, Bloom lost a total of 52 lbs., which he said made him “a horrible person to be around.” 

“It was cardio first thing in the morning for at least an hour,” the Pirates of the Caribbean star said on Today, prompting Melvin to ask, “Ozempic? A little Ozempic?” — referencing, of course, the wildly popular brand of medication that’s become the catchall term for GLP-1 injectables.

“It was cardio, it was boxing, it was weights, and then it was just an insane diet,” Bloom said, explaining, “to the last three weeks, just tuna and cucumber, that was it.” 

The Lord of the Rings alum previously elaborated on his diet to PEOPLE, sharing exclusively that the “water restriction to get to my lowest weight for the final scenes led to obsessive thoughts of food, dreaming of what I could eat when finally off a diet of tuna and cucumber.”

“It’s definitely not something to try at home,” he cautioned on Today, sharing that he worked closely with nutritionist Phillip Goglia, calling the plan “like science.” Because they shot the film in “reverse chronological,” his nutritionist was in touch with production “every day to make sure that we timed all the looks in the right way.”

Bloom elaborated to E! News, saying, “While I would not recommend this kind of extreme weight loss — particularly without the close supervision of an excellent nutritionist — I have to say that the human body is truly remarkable.”

He continued to the outlet: “Despite the deprivations required to get into the shape you see in the film, my body recovered relatively quickly, and I have returned to a much more sustainable health and fitness routine.”

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