Don’t expect to see Jacob Elordi in a superhero movie any time soon
The Priscilla star also doesn't have anything nice to say about The Kissing Booth, which gave him his start
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Like Jeremy Allen White and Paul Mescal before him, Jacob Elordi’s star is on the rise such that he not only has to answer the obligatory superhero question in interviews now, but he’s also confident enough in his place in the industry to risk poking the Marvel bear.
When asked for a new GQ profile whether or not he could ever see himself in a superhero movie, Elordi got straight to the point: “Not particularly, no.” “I’ve always been told to say a rounded answer or my agent will get mad at me. ‘Anything can happen!’” he continued. “And obviously anything can happen, but at this stage in my life, I don’t see myself having any interest in that. I like to make what I would watch, and I get very restless watching those movies.”
For Elordi, this isn’t mere speculation. “[T]hey asked me to read for Superman,” he revealed, presumably referring to James Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy, now starring David Corenswet. “That was immediately, ‘No, thank you.’ That’s too much. That’s too dark for me.”
On the flip side is sugary sweet The Kissing Both (and its sequels), which gave Elordi his start back in 2018. It doesn’t seem like there’s a lot of love lost there. “I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies,” he said. “Those movies are ridiculous. They’re not universal. They’re an escape.” “You have no original ideas and you’re dead inside. So it’s a fine dance,” he elaborated, when asked about Hollywood’s “one for them, one for me,” ethos, by which stars occasionally step into a tentpole in exchange for appearing in a smaller, more exciting film. “My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.”
It’s through dark independent films (that are apparently not quite as dark as Superman) that Elordi has found his niche. After receiving glowing reviews for his turn in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, the Euphoria star will next appear as an extravagant, pierced-eyebrow-sporting aristocrat in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and later as a younger version of a character played by Richard Gere in Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada.
It sounds like Elordi is very happy with where he’s landed, or in his words, the fact that he finally feels like he’s “in the movie now” (original emphasis). “How is caring about your output pretentious?” he asked in relation to the superhero question. “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?”
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Okay, I won’t!
Well at least we’ve answered that question, thank god!
Fuck you Nate
Got his start in 2018? Ehh, let’s see how he feels about “one for them” after 10 years in the mid-to-indie trenches.But seriously, does anyone still want to be somewhat above the bottom of the barrel in their film journalism? Ask something genuine, challenging. Stop with this like-everyone-else clickbait bullshit.
Who?
Yeah I’m starting to notice a trend of people I’ve never heard of and don’t recognize turning down movie jobs they haven’t been offered.
Yeah it’s called getting old. Pop culture won’t cater to you forever.
I don’t think there was ever an age where I would have watched The Kissing Booth.
I was thinking the same thing . Then thinking “am I an out of touch old guy?” but from what I can see the stuff this guys worked on has been outside my orbit , so while I am an out of touch old guy , its also understandable why I’ve never heard of this dude.
My wife, Eleanor.
You’re on the internet, shitlick. Do your own homework.
He looks like the athletic version of an Adam Scott variant. He’s just not been in anything I have wanted to see I guess.
Well I wasn’t going to go see any superhero movies, so I guess, yeah, technically, that scans.
Feel how you feel, but shitting all over the films/fans that started the ball rolling for you is so off-putting.
Fair play for having an off kilter ethos and expecting the most artistically fulfilling aspects from oneself in one’s career, but the trailer for Saltburn was utterly, insufferably pretentious. From the boneheaded dialogue to the typeface and the colours and kerning of said typeface.