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Jacob Elordi almost missed out on his big “Euphoria” breakout role. Dy2O3
The “Priscilla” and “Saltburn” star revealed during Variety’s Actors on Actors series alongside “Euphoria” co-star and “Rustin” lead actor Colman Domingo that he “completely blew” his audition for the viral Sam Levinson-helmed HBO series.
“I was living in my car […] for about a week or so” prior to the “Euphoria” audition, Elordi said. “That was my last one before I was going home to kind of take a debrief.”
Elordi continued, “I went in and I fudged my lines. I was like, ‘Does anybody know Jules, know who she is? Does anyone know Jules?’ Completely blew it. And then Sam asked me back and then I read with him two or three times.”
Domingo asked Elordi how he felt upon landing the role, to which Elordi simply replied, “euphoric.”
Elordi previously admitted that he almost quit acting after wrapping production on Netflix film “The Kissing Booth” in 2017. The film later became a trilogy franchise. Related Stories Lena Dunham Co-Creates Netflix Series ‘Too Much’ Starring Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter It Took 5 Episodes for the New ‘Frasier’ to Shake the Original, but It Became So Much More
“I wasn’t booking jobs,” Elordi told GQ UK in August 2023. “I think I had – I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account – and ‘Euphoria’ was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recuperate.”
Elordi recalled of his “Kissing Booth” fame, “It felt like, all of a sudden, I was a poster. Like I was a billboard. It felt like it was for sale. Then my brain went through the fucking wringer. Like, I wasn’t sure if I was genuine. It really skews your view. It creates a very paranoid way of living.”
The actor additionally noted that he turned down auditioning for Superman in a GQ cover story. “That was immediately, ‘No, thank you.’ That’s too much. That’s too dark for me,” Elordi said.
He added of the “one for them, one for me” approach to balancing indie films with large-scale franchises, “That one’s a trap as well, because it can become 15 for them, none for you. You have no original ideas and you’re dead inside. So it’s a fine dance. My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.”
Jacob Elordi recounts the story of his first audition for #Euphoria: "I went in and fudged my lines. I was like, 'Does anybody Jules know who she is? Does anyone know Jules?' Completely blew it." #ActorsOnActors https://t.co/VszGc9LuDf pic.twitter.com/T6XFZmdIie
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