![]() ![]() I enjoy it.” Elordi stresses that he doesn’t want to minimize the experience of anyone who might feel differently but points out that one of the reasons Euphoria is so successful is because of the long shoot days. 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. “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. “For me, working on that set is an absolute treat,” he tells me. On the Euphoria set, Sam Levinson’s shoots can be long and intense-filming the New Year’s Eve party that begins season two lasted all night, an experience Elordi has previously said was “like being in hell.” But he remembers it differently when we speak in June. It’s Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando.”Įlordi remains grateful for his good fortune, even on the most grueling days. I hope that’s what the performance is in Euphoria. So if I could play to both sides of how I was raised, then how could I lose? And that sounds like a hindsight thing, but I knew it at the time. “I had a lot of confidence at school, so I could navigate that path myself,” he says. 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?”Īt this pivotal time in his young life, a point when so many of us are driven away from certain pursuits because of fear or peer pressure-the very forces that give rise to Nate Jacobs’s all-consuming identity crisis-Elordi found a steadfast self-assurance. I’m going to do it, and I’m going to show you that’s bullshit. “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. I started really playing the thespian.”Įlordi was beginning to understand the power of subverting expectations, and it thrilled him. “I started welcoming those kinds of characters. “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.” The experience was transformative. He wore purple glitter on his face, and spiked hair with pink stripes. “When they said I was gay, I remember leaning into the makeup,” Elordi says. He wore a leather jacket and rings on his fingers. ![]() He was excited, he tells me, for the chance to fashion an Oberon that transgressed conventional gender lines. One of his roles involved playing Oberon, the King of the Fairies, in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Though Elordi was an emerging thespian, he was an athlete too, a member of the school’s rugby team, and he was beginning to feel the dichotomy between those two worlds. Both his parents have T-shirts with printed images of nearly every character he’s ever played.Įlordi became fixated on acting when he was 12, the age at which Nate, in Euphoria, was beginning to sculpt his alpha male identity, developing a routine that involves pull-ups and screaming so loudly that no one could ever accuse him of being effeminate. A stay-at-home mom, she volunteered to work at his school lunchroom, so every day, while he was eating the lunch his parents packed for him, he could also hang out with her. “I think she sees him as me,” Elordi says. After Nate got arrested in season one for assaulting his girlfriend, she called Elordi, clearly upset. “I wish people could understand how drastic that change was.”īut Elordi’s closest relationship is with his mom, Melissa-he calls her “the most present, loving, just beautiful, angelic human being on this planet”-and she gets a bit more invested in each of her son’s characters. “I had to go through and delete my high school pictures because that was the Instagram that I used for my life,” he tells me. Netflix released the movie at midnight in L.A., so Elordi went to bed as a normal kid and woke up to 4 million new followers on his Instagram. Then came a role as hot hunk Noah Flynn in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, which was seen by tens of millions of people-Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos called it “one of the most watched movies in the world right now” after it was released in 2018-and turned him into a celebrity overnight. ![]() Five years ago, he was recently out of high school in his native Brisbane. Though the NBA-size Elordi is used to standing out, the swiftness of his rise to fame has left him feeling a bit unmoored. Earring, $3,700 for pair, by Tiffany & Co. ![]() Jacob Elordi covers the September 2022 issue of GQ. ![]()
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