Jacob Elordi recently sat down with Wuthering Heights and Saltburn director Emerald Fennell in a new story with Esquire. While he did not state anything regarding not reprising his Euphoria role, although he is coming back for Season 3, he did state how his outlook as an actor has changed and how he has matured with every role.

Over the last couple of months, as Elordi expressed, he had run out of energy creatively and needed a break. However, now having worked in not just two vastly different roles but also deeply creatively challenging (Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights), the actor feels more relieved and positive, as he put it, “re-energised again”. Instead of earlier inhibitions and doubts, he is happy to see the result of his labours.

I can go away and come up with something in my head, but I never quite see the spoils of it. Euphoria for me felt like acting for my life. The Kissing Booth felt like acting for my life. These were my first jobs, and I remember sitting at home being like, ‘You cannot miss one second of this opportunity.’ So that enthusiasm came from the desire to be an actor, whereas Wuthering Heights is one of the first films where I’ve done things and seen the result. 

I’m quite elated now to have seen the result, and seen deliberate choices play out. I guess I’m just applauding myself, haha!

Now, after enjoying incredible critical success, the actor is far away from where he started in Euphoria. Now at the stage of his career when he can start to enjoy his choices and the type of roles he can choose, the actor stated he has been feeling more fun, free, and normal.

Jocob Elordi’s Cryptic Reaction to Euphoria Season 3

Jacob Elordi recently sat down with Gwyneth Paltrow during Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors. When Paltrow revealed that she loves Euphoria, Elordi asked her if she found the show alarming as a parent. 

The actor further remarked that he finds the show so extreme to watch and cannot believe how anyone finds it relatable. Yet, Paltrow reckoned that even with the excess, she found many things relatable about the show.

I wasn’t alarmed. My kids sort of weren’t going down those paths. But I think there were things they felt were depicted really accurately. Not the extremes, but you know the relational stuff and the social media stuff.

Elordi also told her that the upcoming season 3 is a lot different than the previous seasons. When Paltrow asked if his character, Nate, would be nicer this season, Elordi cryptically remarked:

I really do think so. Whether it works or not — I don’t know. There’s a chance that what I’ve done is not good.

Well, if anything, Elordi’s latest comments have only made the upcoming season sound even more confusing. Containing a five-year jump, Nate will get married to Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie in the season.

Jacob Elordi Was Scared of Starring in Wuthering Heights

Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in a still from Wuthering Heights | Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures

Jacob Elordi will be playing one of the most famous classic literary characters in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation. He will be starring as Heathcliff opposite Margot Robbie’s Cathy. 

While the film is generating its fair share of controversies, from allegations of whitewashing to claims of the new adaptation being a classic version of 50 Shades of Grey, Elordi had his own concerns when he was cast as Heathcliff.

During his talk with Fennell, via Esquire, the actor remarked: 

But I feel very afraid. The older I get, the more nervous I get, and I was afraid of Wuthering Heights; it was a big movie, and the crew was big and the sets were big.

He continued that he felt scared that he was lacking, given the magnitude of the production. 

I try to make sure I’ve turned every stone and looked in every corner before playing a character, but the truth is you can’t. But the fear comes from: have I looked enough? Have I studied enough? Have I read enough? Because, like you said, there’s 600 people there that have put so much work and effort in, who’ve toiled and waited and not seen their families, and then you need to come in and put a layer onto the cake. 

There is a pressure that you’re not going to be what people want you to be. There will probably always be an imposter element to acting for me, just because I dreamt about it so intensely that it almost feels like it couldn’t have happened.

For Elordi, who was recruited for the project via a simple WhatsApp text, the project is one of his favorites that he has ever done. The Kissing Booth star also revealed he watched the film with his mother and wept uncontrollably while watching it.

Well, what are your thoughts about the upcoming film?

Euphoria will premiere on April 12 on HBO Max, and Wuthering Heights will be in theaters on February 13. 
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