Shoutout to Emerald Fennell.
Jacob Elordi revealed that he was going to briefly step away from performing till he was provided a task within the Oscar-winning director’s upcoming movie “Wuthering Heights.”
“I was really lucky. I was going to take a break for a while, and then Emerald just very simply texted me, and you can’t run from that text,” he instructed IndieWire in an interview printed Thursday.
Elordi additionally praised his “Wuthering Heights” co-star Margot Robbie for her “incredible” efficiency within the movie.
“She’s a livewire. I’m so, so excited for people to see it,” he mentioned. “She’s a beautiful actor and she gave so, so much.”
Fennell, 39, is directing, writing and producing the difference of Emily Brontë’s 1847 romance novel. The movie comes out in Feb. 2026. Fennell, Robbie and Elordi beforehand labored collectively on “Saltburn.”
Robbie, who’s enjoying Catherine Earnshaw reverse Elordi’s Heathcliff, beforehand praised Fennell’s filmmaking in a January 2024 interview with Selection.
“Emerald immerses you into a world so quickly,” mentioned the “Barbie” star, 34. “She’s so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly — you’re just immediately like, ‘I’m in this world.’”
Elordi has different performing tasks that may come out earlier than “Wuthering Heights.”
His subsequent movie is Daniel Minahan’s romantic drama “On Swift Horses” which premiered on the 2024 Toronto Movie Pageant and releases in theaters on April 25. Elordi produced the movie and stars alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulter and Diego Calva.
Then, Elordi will star in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein film later this 12 months. He’s enjoying Frankenstein’s monster whereas Oscar Isaac is enjoying Frankenstein.
Elordi instructed IndieWire he and del Toro, 60, watched the Frankenstein movies from the Thirties collectively to arrange for capturing.
“I think I’ve seen every creature film ever made. Strangely enough, Guillermo gave me a baby book — a baby development book — at the start of filming. [Those] two references I remember greatly,” he mentioned.
As for tv, Elordi has a important function within the new 5-part Australian miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” based mostly on Richard Flanagan’s 2013 novel. He performs a battle physician within the Forties who’s drafted to the Philippines to assist within the building of the Burma Railway.
Elordi additionally not too long ago confirmed he began filming Season 3 of “Euphoria,” wherein he performs Nate Jacobs.
“I just shot my first days of that this week,” he instructed Leisure Tonight final week. “It was incredible. You also have to understand we’ve grown up on that. We grew up from late teens into adults on that show.”
“It was beautiful. It was really touching to go back and step into that environment, it was like stepping into a time capsule,” Elordi added. “Nothing had changed.”
