Jacob Elordi is revealing how he stumbled upon acting in his teenage.
Elordi was originally into sports since he was growing up in Australia, tbut an injury made him choose acting.
The Frankenstien star recalled the incident during a roundtable The Hollywood Reporter interview, “I did Seussical, the musical,when I was 13, as a way to deal with rambunctious behavior — they put me into this thing — and then I realized acting was a way you could find some kind of peace.”
“Where I grew up in Australia, you weren’t really a person unless you played sports, so I did that and enjoyed it enough. But then I broke my back when I was 16 — we were lifting weights too early — and I remember laying on the floor and kind of laughing because I’d been doing rehearsals for a play at school at the same time, and the rugby coach and I had just had a conversation about me needing to choose one or the other. I was kind of like Troy Bolton in High School Musical,” he continued.
The Euphoria star was then asked about getting the script of the Guillermo del Toro film when Andrew Garfield dropped out just nine weeks before it was to shoot.
“I was in the middle of shooting these death camp sequences [for The Narrow Road To Deep North] when I heard about it, but when Guillermo sends you something, you need to respond immediately.”
“I read it and talked to Guillermo, and then there were six excruciating days when I had to keep shooting and didn’t hear back from him. I like what Michael [B. Jordan] said about, ‘What’s yours is yours and what’s not is not. But this was the first time that after reading a screenplay, I was like, ‘No, this has to be mine.'”
Jacob Elordi was joined in the THR interview by Mark Hamill, Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan, Wagner Moura, Adam Sandler and Jeremy Allen White.
