Jacob Elordi Reveals the Grit Behind His Jaw-Dropping Action Stunts and His Surprising Vision for Family Movie Nights—You Won’t Believe What Bleu de Chanel Has to Do with It!
Imagine Jacob Elordi—not just tall and magnetic, but caught in one of those moments where he’s either simmering with barely contained fury or just savoring the rare luxury of doing absolutely nothing. Sounds like a tough act to balance, right? After storming onto the scene with Netflix’s bubbly Kissing Booth, Elordi didn’t just settle—nah, he carved a niche diving headfirst into darker, more intense roles like Nate Jacobs in Euphoria or the tormented creature under Guillermo del Toro’s meticulous eye in Frankenstein. Yet, just when you think he’s all about the drama and gripping tension, the guy’s telling me he still prefers the slow burn of a kitchen-table drama—words, not stunts. Speaking of which, he’s now gearing up to channel some serious action-hero vibes as the fresh face of Bleu de Chanel l’Exclusif, stepping into a high-stakes world crafted by none other than Alfonso Cuarón. Curious how Jacob juggles these shades of himself—the smoldering intensity and the quiet moments? Stick around, ’cause there’s more than a few surprise moves behind the scenes. LEARN MORE
4 min readFirst, conjure an image of Jacob Elordi. Tall and charismatic? Of course. But what’s he doing? Maybe gazing meaningfully into someone’s eyes, tamping down a deep-seated rage, smoldering, in some sense or another. After breaking into Hollywood with Netflix’s glossy Kissing Booth movies, Elordi quickly established himself as an actor drawn to more dramatic roles. The angry, insecure Nate Jacobs in Euphoria. The tortured Creature in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. The also tortured Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. This guy yearns for intensity, something to sink his teeth into.
Or maybe he just enjoys taking a load off.
“I still like a kitchen-table drama,” he tells me. “Sitting, with words. You don’t have to run so much.”
“I still like a kitchen-table drama,” Elordi says. “Sitting, with words. You don’t have to run so much.”
Counterintuitive as it may sound, Elordi is thinking about running—and high-wire stunts, and action choreography—because he’s the new face of Bleu de Chanel, which Esquire announced exclusively last month. Now we get to see the official rollout of the Australian actor’s campaign for Bleu de Chanel l’Exclusif, a deeper, woodier take on the classic men’s fragrance.
The campaign includes a short film directed by four-time Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma, many others), in which Elordi gets into full action-star mode. He is a man-of-mystery type intent on securing a bottle of fragrance while an unnamed female interloper tries to nab it for herself. It’s exciting stuff, with no shortage of acrobatics and intrigue.
But earlier this year, well before this long-anticipated reveal, Elordi was a much mellower version of himself, telling me how the campaign came together, singing the praises of his next big film project, and getting just a touch sentimental when he started thinking about watching movies with his future children. Read on for a few (edited and condensed) highlights from our conversation.
Bleu de Chanel l’Exclusif.
On working with Chanel
“For me, Bleu de Chanel and the brand have such strong ties to cinema. And I was a fan of the work that Timothée Chalamet and Martin Scorsese had done on the previous campaign. So it was just an honor to be asked and be a part of it. And I really do love the kind of blue that the bottle is—that deep, oceanic sort of midnight blue. It’s my favorite color.”
On meeting Alfonso Cuarón
“I was really excited to work with him so soon after working with Guillermo del Toro. You almost can’t mention one’s work without the other. I’d heard so many stories about him—the meticulous nature with which he makes his films. And I’ve seen all his work. I’ll never forget Prisoner of Azkaban, which was one of the first Alfonso Cuarón films that I was familiar with. He’s a cinema legend.”
Jacob Elordi: part-time stuntman.
On shooting action sequences
“Action is an incredibly difficult tango that takes a lot of planning and effort. I definitely got an insight into the process of an action film and probably developed a lot more respect for some of the sequences that I’ve seen in movies, now having done a small version of one.”
On his upcoming movie, The Dog Stars
“It’s a movie with Ridley Scott that we shot in Italy last year with Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Margaret Qualley, Alison Janey, Benedict Wong—a pretty stellar cast of performers. It’s the best, man. Ridley Scott is like mainlining cinema. He’s an absolute force on a film set. And the experience … it is as cool as it sounds. It also felt like going back in time a little bit, being with all these heavy hitters in Italy making this large-scale film—it felt like we were making one of the old movies.”
“I can’t wait to have children so I can watch the movies that I love with them and then re-understand the films.”
A message for the fans
“I would like to give, particularly on Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights, a genuine thank-you to everyone who went to the cinema and spent their money and sat down, en masse, and watched these movies as a community around the world. That is something that I’m truly excited by, and it really made my year last year.”
On watching movies with your kids
“I have five nieces—they span in ages—and my brother asked me if they could watch Frankenstein. I was like, ‘Yeah. There are things that may be frightening, but this will impact them for life.’ Because children are open to things, and they have the eyes to see them and understand them in a way that sometimes we can’t. The films that I watched as a child that I probably shouldn’t have watched are the films that stayed with me. I think kids can process a whole lot more in cinema than we think they can. It’s almost like they’re looking at it from a different angle. And then you can see the things that frighten them that don’t frighten you; you see them through their eyes and realize they are frightening. I can’t wait to have children so I can watch the movies that I love with them and then re-understand the films.”
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