It says here on page four - look! I imagine people were just like, Jesus fucking Christ. I was like, are we lying to the fucking millions of 14-year-olds out there? This guy smokes nicotine. He plays the character of Nate, and the show and Nate faced one of the most shocking twists ever during the Euphoria Season 2 premiere episode. “I was like, ‘This is bullshit.’ I remember going to war for it. ET There’s a huge reason fans of Euphoria believe Jacob Elordi might be leaving the show. However, the powers-that-be declined Elordi’s request. He’s a bad boy,’” Elordi says in the profile, referencing the novel penned by Beth Reekles. “I remember saying, ‘He smokes in the book. It’s Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando.”Įlordi also recounted how his breakout role in the Netflix franchise The Kissing Booth delivered overnight fame (he went to bed the night the first YA film debuted on the streamer and woke up to four million new Instagram followers) and shared how he went to “war” over his character’s smoking. I could never understand - how could you label anything, ever? How could you label sport as masculine? How does your sexuality inform your prowess as an athlete, or your prowess as a performer?”įinding that balance of part-jock and part-thespian is what he carries with him to play Nate, says Elordi: “I hope that’s what the performance is in Euphoria. It’s muscle and heart. I’m going to do it, and I’m going to show you that’s bullshit. “I was like, if I’m going to be the King of the Fairies, I’m going to be the fucking hottest King of the Fairies you’ve ever seen.”Ĭontinuing, “I stepped away from beer culture and from sport culture, and I was like, well, if you think this is gay, I’m going to be who I am when I was your friend, which is this hetero guy, but I’m going to play the arts. Jacob has admitted that if he didn’t land the role of Nate in Euphoria, he’d have been forced to move back to his home country of Australia. “When they said I was gay, I remember leaning into the makeup,” he recalls of his peers’ response. Euphoria Star Jacob Elordi Recently Made Claims That Working On The Set Is 'like Being In Hell' Due To The Long-working Hours Amid Fan Concerns About Working Conditions. Jacob Elordi Said That Having To Delete His Personal High School Photos From Instagram Was A Drastic Change After He Gained Overnight Fame From The Kissing Booth. While straddling both the worlds of sports and theater in high school, he credited an early role as Oberon, the King of the Fairies, for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as being transformative to subverting expectations around gender lines, and ultimately helping to inform how he plays Nate. According to a Reddit post, a fan shared their theory that Schafer and Elordi might not like each other anymore. I enjoy it.”Įlordi, who says he honed his acting craft by reading biographies and profiles, watching films and emulating the classic Hollywood looks of Daniel Day-Lewis and Steve McQueen, also shared insight into how he approaches playing the role of Nate, who is aptly described as a “predatory maniac” in the profile, given his history with the female characters on the high-octane teen drama. Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer unfollowed each other on social media. “I think I’ve read people saying, ‘Look, that’s a bad image to set, you shouldn’t have to work yourself to the bone for art.’ Fuck that. Jacob Elordi is the latest Australian actor to make it big in Hollywood. “When I’m working with Sam, I’m in the trenches with him, and I trust him, and I work myself to the bone for him,” Elordi told GQ staff writer Clay Skipper at Twentynine Palms, where the actor is on a respite while preparing to star in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. The 25-year-old Australian described working on the set of Euphoria as “an absolute treat,” and praised writer-creator-director Levinson’s approach. "What everyone's seeing on television, the shots that people are talking about, the feelings that they get, the conversation that's around the show," he said, "that's because certain shots take 30-something takes.Jacob Elordi covers GQ’s new Hype issue. I enjoy it."Īs such, while Jacob understands others may not feel the same way about Euphoria's grueling shoots, he believes they foster creativity. He continued, "I think I've read people saying, ‘Look, that's a bad image to set, you shouldn't have to work yourself to the bone for art.' F-k that. "When I'm working with Sam, I'm in the trenches with him, and I trust him, and I work myself to the bone for him." But the star is walking back on his comments, sharing that the conditions make for a better show. "For me, working on that set is an absolute treat," Jacob told GQ in a profile published Aug. Jacob Elordi isn't against burning the midnight oil.Įuphoria, written by Sam Levinson, has been criticized on social media for putting its cast through long work days and featuring graphic scenes, which even Jacob has described as hellish.
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