![]() ![]() ![]() Squint and he’s a very tall version of Jeremy Irons from the ’80s version of Brideshead.Įuphoria is a show about high school in the way that Drive to Survive is a show about cars. He’s spent years emulating these stars, and has the classic Hollywood looks that could one day place him in their ranks – strong brow, expressive eyes. He’s carrying his Saltburn script around in a worn leather binder that used to belong to Gary Oldman – a gift from Oldman’s son Charlie, a close friend. He wears a Saint Christopher medal, like Steve McQueen did. He pierced his ears because Daniel Day-Lewis did. In high school, he started reading biographies and profiles of them and stole off to the library to watch their films. Since he was young, Elordi has known who he wants to be: the actors he grew up revering, both legends like Brando and Olivier and also more recent ones, like Ledger and Bale. “When I’m out here,” he says, “I can kind of be anyone or do anything.” He can already feel himself starting to slip into his new identity. At Fennell’s suggestion, Elordi has been reading Brideshead Revisited to get in character, and he explains that his outfit – a billowy shirt and a pair of linen trousers – is an attempt to inhabit the “loose privilege” of the novel’s protagonists. and to prepare for his next role as a British aristocrat in Saltburn, director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman. He came to Twentynine Palms to get some distance from his life in L.A. ![]()
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