It’s that time of year when Variety selects actors and pairs them up with other actors so they can endlessly compliment each other and discuss the agony and ecstasy of Acting. If there’s a specific actor who bugs you, this annual ritual will annoy you to no end. But if there’s an actor you very recently became obsessed with, then it’s great! So, as a brand-new Jacob Elordi superfan–while I was deeply bummed he wasn’t wearing his Heathcliff costume—I loved his conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow.
Mostly, I loved learning that Elordi is a witchy little manifestation queen who envisioned working with director Guillermo del Toro when he was a kid, and pretty much spoke the role of Frankenstein into existence a year before he was cast.
“It is a pinch-me moment,” he told Paltrow of the success and reception of Frankenstein. “Because really, the dream I had when I was laying in my bed…literally part of that dream was working with Guillermo del Toro.” He continued: “Because I’d seen Pan’s Labryinth when I was maybe 13 or 14…and I was into monsters and all these sorts of things, and I remember seeing that film and keeping it with me somewhere.”
“Now to be on a plane with him, even to watch the film and see his name come up…it’s absolutely surreal,” he said.
Paltrow commented that he, indeed, “manifested it,” allowing Elordi to reveal how he actually got the part. Basically, the hair and makeup team for Priscilla —in which Elordi stars as Elvis—were working on Frankenstein afterwards, and Elordi told them he was destined to be in the film.
Jacob Elordi tells Gwyneth Paltrow he’d always dreamed of working with Guillermo del Toro because of “Pan’s Labyrinth” — and says working on Frankenstein with him is “absolutely surreal.”
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“While I was playing Elvis, I had this kind of unnatural sort of pluck and confidence,” he said. “I remember I said to her [the hairstylist], ‘Oh, I’m supposed to be in that movie,’…and she goes, ‘Well, we have an actor, so you’re not meant to be in it.’” But, a year later, when the actor dropped out, the hair and makeup team told del Toro to check out Elordi. His power!
He also said when he first got the screenplay, he “turned all the lights off in my house and lit everything with candles,” to read the script. Witchy! “I just had a feeling that I needed to do something to get a spark back,” he said. “So I really made a meal out of it.”
He didn’t say much about the upcoming Wuthering Heights, in which he stars as Heathcliff—and in which the trailer has sent me into a feral frenzy—except to say that “it’s really good” and he thinks Gwyneth will like it. I continue to manifest that Emerald Fennell‘s take on Emily Brontë‘s novel does indeed end up being a phenomenal, generational film. Hopefully, Elordi’s manifestation powers were working behind the scenes too— because I cannot be the only one manifesting myself into a Victorian grave over this movie.
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