Jacob Elordi is on holiday with Olivia Jade Giannulli and her family (her mother is Lori Loughlin) in Sardinia right now. He’s spent most of the year shooting Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, which just wrapped, so a little downtime before he begins his next project which is…?
Well they’re hoping to start shooting season three of Euphoria in January and then, presumably, will go straight into Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, co-starring Margot Robbie. That project was announced last week with Margot playing Cathy opposite Jacob’s Heathcliffe and as I said in What Else? at the time, I hate it. Because to me, Jacob here is playing the same note. Like, we get it. You have the broody dick roles on lock. You are beautiful and young and you want to be taken seriously so you’re leaning in hard to the Very Serious Parts as you keep running from The Kissing Booth. Is anybody still thinking about The Kissing Booth though? Euphoria, Saltburn, and Priscilla/Elvis took care of that, non? And Frankenstein’s monster will finish it off. But that’s the power of Hot Actor Complex, we’ve seen so many of Jacob’s predecessors succumb to the same affliction. I attribute his unfortunate moustache to this syndrome.
In that spirit, I laughed when I looked at some of the photos of him on his holiday and zoomed in on his poolside reading material: Jean Cocteau, The Art of Cinema. Can’t wait for him to quote Jean Cocteau in his future interviews. Apologies I can’t include any of those shots in this post because they cost extra but you can see them here. I’ll make up for this with the shirtless shots. And at one point he dropped down for some push-ups on the deck and Olivia’s dad was doing it too. Let’s talk about Jacob Elordi, thespian, some more over at The Squawk today. (App link here)
