![]() It comes after Jacob was linked romantically to YouTube star Olivia Jade, 22. In Euphoria, Jacob plays Nate Jacobs, a high school athlete who struggles to control his anger issues, which mask his sexual insecurities. #JACOB ELORDI EUPHORIA HOW TO#I only know this one way of being, which is smile, and wave, and being graceful all the time, and not feeling anything, and always being the graceful one in a situation, and always knowing what the right thing to do is, and always knowing how to handle myself.' 'The fear going on a walk in Byron Bay, at my home, maybe one day that won’t hold the same value to me, because I’ve sanded down all my edges,' he said. #JACOB ELORDI EUPHORIA DOWNLOAD#The September issue of British GQ is available via digital download and on newsstands on 23rd August 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 was like, if I'm going to be the King of the Fairies, then I'm going to be the f***ing hottest King of the Fairies you've ever seen. He said: 'When they said I was gay, I remember leaning in to the makeup. Jacob said he first began to realise that he could blur the gender lines when he landed the role of Oberon in a school production of Midsommar Night's Dream. I'm spending my weekends with the most beautiful women from the school next door, reading the most romantic words ever written.' 'And also, I was doing plays with girls' schools. I was never worried that my peers would think I was less than a man. 'I felt like I was above it, or it made me feel older. #JACOB ELORDI EUPHORIA SERIES#It says here on page four - look! I imagine people were just like, Jesus fucking Christ.Tough: The actor admitted the series was his 'last audition,' and he had just '$400 or $800' left in his account when he tried out for the role (pictured in Euphoria) I was like, are we lying to the fucking millions of 14-year-olds out there? This guy smokes nicotine. “I was like, ‘This is bullshit.’ I remember going to war for it. 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. “When they said I was gay, I remember leaning into the makeup,” he recalls of his peers’ response. 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. 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. “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,” 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. ![]()
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