While Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is slowly pulling together its creative crew and cast, Orlando Bloom admitted that he was likely not going to reprise his role as Legolas.

Bloom made an appearance at Amazon’s panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday (July 27), primarily to promote his upcoming new fantasy show Carnival Row. However, with Lord of the Rings picking up steam, the inevitable question of whether he had been approached to reprise his role as Legolas in the series came up.

“I like to think of myself as ageless, but […] I don’t know where I would fit in that world, really,” Bloom said to the audience of reporters and critics in attendance. “If you’re saying there’s Legolas, they’ve probably got a 19-year-old kid who’s ready to go.”

With the series confirmed to take place during the Second Age, and Legolas’ age unknown, it is not much of a stretch to assume that a younger version of the character could appear. Bloom’s assessment on the likelihood of Amazon casting a younger actor to portray the iconic Sindarin Elf would appear to be accurate, should they choose to include ones familiar to audiences from the movies.

Earlier in the day, Amazon confirmed that production would begin on Lord of the Rings in early 2020, with a global casting search currently underway. As announced during Amazon’s 2018 appearance at the TCAs, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are executive producing and showrunning, with J.A. Bayona directing the first two episodes. McKay and Payne also gave a statement, introducing the rest of their creative team.

“This team is our Fellowship — assembled from around the world, all walking the road together to try and accomplish something far greater than any of us could on our own. We feel humbled and extremely lucky to be surrounded by such inspiring and talented women and men,” McKay and Payne said.

That “Fellowship” consists of Lindsey Weber (10 Cloverfield Lane), Bruce Richmond (Game of Thrones), Gene Kelly (Boardwalk Empire) and Amazon’s former head of genre Sharon Tal Yguado executive producing; Gennifer Hutchison (Breaking Bad), Jason Cahill (The Sopranos) and Justin Doble (Stranger Things) as writers and executive producers; Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4) as consulting producers; Ron Ames (The Aviator) as producer; and Helen Shang (Hannibal) as writer and co-producer.

On the design side, Kate Hawley (Suicide Squad) is looking after costumes, with Rick Heinrichs (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) doing production design, Jason Smith (The Revenant) as the visual effects supervisor, and John Howe as the illustrator an concept artist. Tolkien scholar Tom Shippe is also involved in production.