Jacob Elordi: Acting does start to become a job
Jacob Elordi relished the experience of shooting Frankenstein.
Jacob Elordi rediscovered his love of acting while making Frankenstein.
The 28-year-old actor plays the Creature in Guillermo del Toro's new sci-fi film, and Jacob has revealed that he loved the process of making the movie.
Speaking to Variety, Jacob explained: "It does start to become a job.
"I used to be one of those people who thought, 'The worst day on a movie set is still better than the best day in the real world.' And that’s b*******. That’s a f****** lie. But it was nice to have [a project like Frankenstein] to ignite that feeling again."
Jacob has enjoyed a meteoric rise in recent years. However, the actor insists that success in Hollywood was hard to come by.
He said: "I first booked this movie Swinging Safari, about the ’70s in Australia. Then I booked this Netflix film called The Kissing Booth when I was around 18. I came to America and thought I was really about to do something, and I get to Los Angeles. And it was …. [sobering].
"Two years after that I got Euphoria. It’s not a long time in the scheme of things but for me it was like nails on a chalkboard."
Jacob recently confessed that he experienced "moments of great anguish" amid shooting Frankenstein.
The actor was required to lose a significant amount of weight in a relatively short period of time in order to star in the movie, and Jacob admits that his efforts took a real toll on him.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Jacob shared: "My brain was kind of all over the place.
"I had these moments of great anguish at around 3 a.m. in the morning. I’d wake and my body was in such pain. And I just realised that it was a blessing with Frankenstein coming up, because I could articulate these feelings, this suffering."
Jacob actually feels that he was destined to play the part of Frankenstein's monster.
He explained: "It came from some other place.
"It felt like a growth, like a cancer in my stomach that told me that I had to play this thing. I’ve heard stories about this from actors, and when you hear them, you kind of go, ‘Sure, you were meant to play this thing.’ But I really feel like I was."
