Orlando Bloom has hinted that he’s going to take a break from Hollywood to catch up on his personal - and spiritual - life.

He said recently: “I’ve been white knuckling it for so long. Between the first Lord of the Rings and the last Pirates of the Caribbean, I’ve been going non stop.”

“So now I just want some time and space from everything and the phone and the communication.”

He added that a recent trip to South Africa made him realise he has to take a step back for a while: “I felt so isolated and vulnerable and I had time to think.”

Orlando practises a type of Nichiren Buddhism through the Soka Gakkai movement and wants practise applying it to his normal everyday life to help him in the future: “The philosophy I’ve embraced isn’t about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.”

“It’s about studying what’s going on in my life and using the fuel to go on and live a bigger life.”