Actor Jacob Elordi is featured on the cover of December’s Men of The Year issue of GQ.
In the interview, the 26-year-old Aussie actor says that his Kissing Booth films on Netflix were “ridiculous movies” and made him feel “dead inside.”
“I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies,” he said of the wildly popular franchise. “Those movies are ridiculous. They’re not universal. They’re an escape.”
The actor insists on high stands and is shocked when people bristle at it.
“How is caring about your output pretentious?” Elordi asked. “But not caring, and knowingly feeding people shit, knowing that you’re making money off of people’s time, which is literally the most valuable thing that they have. How is that the cool thing?”
“Well, they asked me to read for Superman,” Elordi told GQ. “That was immediately, ‘No, thank you.’ That’s too much. That’s too dark for me.”
When it comes to roles that Elordi does want to play, fans can look to his unsettling role in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming thriller Saltburn.
Elordi has said that his character Felix Cotton is “in many ways” even “scarier” than his infamous portrayal of toxic high school boyfriend Nate Jacobs in HBO’s Euphoria – and that’s saying something.
The film, which Emerald Fennell has revealed will be canonically queer, tells the story of Oliver (Barry Keoghan), who is struggling to make friends as a vulnerable new student at Oxford University.
Eventually, Oliver connects with fellow student Felix, the deceptively charming, egotistical son and heir of the aristocratic Catton family and the epitome of the British upper class.
As the pair’s friendship blooms, Oliver grows increasingly attached to Felix and his family’s high-flying lifestyle. When he joins the Cattons that summer on their sprawling family estate, he’s in for an experience he’ll never forget.
Read the full interview, “How Jacob Elordi Became The New King” by Gabriella Paiella in GQ’s December issue and on GQ.com.
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