Jacob Elordi is 26 years old and is 1.96 meters tall. He is aware that, when someone sees him in the hallways of a high school, he begins to suspect that he is not old enough to be there. So, facing the third season of Euphoria that is already confirmed by HBO, he has a request or hope: that there be a time jump forward to justify the ages of the cast members led by Zendaya.
“I assume we will move forward. Otherwise, it will look a little weird,” she said regarding the fact that the actors are no longer or look like teenagers. You are right. Zendaya is 27 years old, Sydney Sweeney and Maude Apatow are 26 years old, Hunter Schafer is the youngest at 25, and Alexa Demie is the oldest at 33 years old. They are no longer at that stage in their careers where they have to talk about prom.
Elordi also hopes that filming will begin soon or “they’re going to have to Benjamin-Buttonize me or something,” he said, referring to the David Fincher film where Brad Pitt was born old and then rejuvenated with the passage of time. “I’ll end up walking through the hallways with back pain,” he joked in the interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
According to Casey Bloys, director of content at HBO and HBO Max, creator Sam Levinson is currently writing the third season of the teen drama, which the prestigious channel plans to air in 2025.
Levinson, who discovered the scorn of critics with the recent The idol alongside The Weeknd, has the media in his pocket when it comes to writing and directing Euphoria: he has accumulated 25 nominations, including best drama series for the second season , including 9 victories, of which Zendaya’s two statuettes stand out as best dramatic actress.
Elordi is in a very good professional moment. In December, Emerald Fennel’s psychological satire Saltburn premiered on Prime Video, with Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike as co-stars. The film had its impact.
Some have even made a candle that smells like “Jacob Elordi’s bath” (those who have seen Saltburn will understand). And, seeing the return that the song Murder on the dancefloor by Sophie Ellis Bextor has made in the charts, 22 years after its publication, one can understand that the work has had its impact on young audiences.
In addition, she has also received critical acclaim for Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s film about Priscilla Presley’s youth. It is the biopic of the universe close to Elvis, the king of rock, developed in parallel to that of Baz Luhrmann, who elevated Austin Butler in Hollywood.
It doesn’t pale in comparison, critics say, taking into account the praise for Elordi or the fact that Cailee Spaeny, who plays the woman of the title, won the Volpi Cup at the Venice festival.
Hollywood is dying to make Elordi the new commercial heartthrob and he, instead, is choosing to work on those projects that interest him, accepting roles in productions considered authorial or independent.
