Production Update From 'Kingdom Of Heaven' Set

Yesterday, they shot one of the most dangerous scenes filmed so far in Loarre: it shows the moment when Balian falls into the forge and burns alive while his workshop burns up around him. It seems that Orlando Bloom wanted to play the scene himself (with all the necessary security measures and firemen, emergency crew, fireproof clothing and so on) but Ridley Scott insisted the scene to be performed by a stuntman, to which Orlando agreed in the end (he must have remembered Legolas’ little accidents while shooting Lord of the Rings). The scene came out perfect, according to the informing sources. Due to the difficulty level of this part of the film, the crew in Loarre started shooting about noon and finished close to midnight.