The best films with Jacob Elordi are just about to come, giving us reason to believe that the young Australian actor will undoubtedly be one of the key players in cinema in 2024.
MARTHE MABILLEFebruary 23, 2024
He quickly became a star thanks to his role as Nate Jacobs, the toxic boyfriend of the character Maddy, in the popular teen drama series Euphoria. He also caught our attention as Noah Flynn in the teen trilogy The Kissing Booth, which has been on air since 2018. on Netflix. The 26-year-old Brisbane-born actor is now dominating the big screen as one of cinema’s biggest talents, following in the footsteps of Timothée Chalamet, Paul Mescal, Austin Butler, Jeremy Allen White and Josh O’Connor.
After working along Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck in the psychological thriller Deepwater (2019), his list of feature films continues to grow, and this year we will have the opportunity to see him in several more titles alongside Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, in which he portrays the role of Elvis Presley. Here’s a look at five feature films of this year starring Jacob Elordi.
Following her directorial debut in the Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman , Emerald Fennell returned to the big screen with Saltburn, which she directed, wrote and produced. Having recruited the talented young star Jacob Elordi, as well as Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan, the British filmmaker decided to tell a story of obsession, privilege and desire, focusing on a big English aristocratic family in the 2000s. Emerald Fennell is well-placed to tell a story like this, as her father is the British jewelry designer Theo Fennell, “a high-society party regular” as he noted in his autobiography. Saltburn is available for streaming.
Saltburn still. Photo: Amazon Prime Video / Courtesy Everett Collection
In Sofia Coppola’s new film Priscilla, based on the 1985 memoir, the famous wife of the King, Jacob Elordi takes on the role of Elvis Presley, just two years after Austin Butler played the same role. Starring alongside American actress Cailee Spaeny, he plays the manipulative star who tries to control his wife down to the smallest detail. He forces her to dye her hair black, tp apply more eye makeup, and dictates what she wears (light colors, no patterns, and with no brown because it reminds him of his time in the military).
Elvis. Photo: A24 Ken Woroner / Courtesy Everett Collection
Screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut follows a teenage girl who runs away from during a school trip. On her journey, young Lilian encounters a whole spectrum of contemporary American radicalism. But some encounters leave a stronger impression on her than others, especially when certain people agree to protect her. Jacob Elordi joins the young talent to watch, Talia Ryder, and the wonderful Ayo Edebira (seen in the award-winning series The Bear and the comedy Bottoms).
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Screened in June at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Jeffrey Darling’s He Went That Way features Jacob Elordi as Larry Lee Ranes, a 19-year-old serial killer. After being picked up by a famous exotic animal trainer while hitchhiking on the legendary Route 66, Larry embarks on a road trip across 1960s America with unusual companions (including a chimpanzee named Spanky). The film is inspired by a series of actual events, placing the film in the true-crime genre. He Went That Way is scheduled to hit theaters in 2024.
Based on the Russell Banks novel, Foregone by Paul Schrader (screenwriter of Taxi Driver) tells the story of Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), a documentary filmmaker who seeks refuge in Montreal in the late 1960s after fleeing from the Vietnam War. Despite being diagnosed with cancer, he agrees to give one last taped interview to one of his former students, Malcolm MacLeod, played by our Jacob Elordi, to share some secrets of his life.
