Vanity Fair, December 2020 (
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"Jacob Elordi Is a Classic Romantic
The
Euphoria and
Deep Water star talks dating in the public eye, playing opposite Ben Affleck, and his admiration for Zendaya.
Every generation has its heartthrobs; Gen Z has Jacob Elordi. The lothario of streaming, thanks to Netflix’s
The Kissing Booth trilogy, shocked Hollywood as a demented jock in HBO’s
Euphoria. Next, he’ll tangle with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in Adrian Lyne’s erotic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller
Deep Water—this Australian-born movie buff is picking his roles to build a leading man that lasts.
Elordi was auditioning for Australian soaps in Sydney and studying Noah Baumbach films when he landed
The Kissing Booth. “I’m a purist and love the movie theater, so I had this weird moral battle of ‘What am I aiding and abetting? Am I the face of this robotic, terrifying new age? Am I murdering this thing that I love?’ But there was this mentality of, ‘I’ll do whatever the f*ck I’ve got to do to get to the United States and do what I love.’ ”
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