After not appearing in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Bloom appeared in a small role in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. His return, and a literal one-shot cameo by Kiera Knightley, allowed the franchise to put a button on their relationship and the franchise’s major outstanding plot point.

Orlando Bloom has responded to Pirates of the Caribbean co-star, Keira Knightley's, criticisms and whether he'd return to the franchise.