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Orlando Bloom admitted that he was not himself while losing a third of his bodyweight for his role in his upcoming movie "The Cut."

The 48-year-old actor dropped 52 pounds to play a boxer, who comes out of retirement to fight for his last shot at a championship title and becomes obsessed in his effort to make weight.

During a Wednesday appearance on the British talk show "This Morning," Bloom opened up about the grueling physical and mental toll of the rigorous regimen that he used to achieve his drastic body transformation.

"I was exhausted mentally, physically. I was hangry," Bloom recalled. "I was a horrible person to be around. The paranoia, the intrusive thoughts."

ORLANDO BLOOM THOUGHT HE ‘WAS GONNA DIE’ FROM 52-POU

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