Given the not-so-subtle hints Jacob Elordi has dropped up until now about his involvement in The Kissing Booth, the Netflix saga that jet-propelled him to stardom, you would have thought the actor’s feelings were crystal clear — but maybe we got it all wrong.
In a new interview with Esquire, the Australian actor got candid about his career and made a startling revelation: "I don't care enough about being a celebrity to make movies that I don't really care about." So, if his comment is up for interpretation, that consequently means he cares deeply about his time as Noah Flynn, right? Deductive reasoning.
He's had some conflicting feelings about The Kissing Booth franchise, which premiered its last and final installment in August this year. In late 2020, Jacob discussed them in an interview with Vanity Fair. “I’m a purist and love the movie theater, so I had this weird moral battle of ‘What am I aiding and abetting? Am I the face of this robotic, terrifying new age? Am I murdering this thing that I love?’" he said at the time about accepting the role. "But there was this mentality of, ‘I’ll do whatever the f**k I’ve got to do to get to the United States and do what I love.’" His comments came right after fans jokingly speculated that he looked miserable while filming the second film — which he swiftly denied saying he had “a resting miserable face.”
Moving conundrums and RMF problems aside, the actor, who’s currently preparing for the premiere of Euphoria’s sophomore season, built upon this same point in his new interview with Esquire. "I used to worry a lot about what people thought about me, and about the kind of actor I was because of the movies I'd made," he told the publication, of course, seemingly referring to the TKB saga. "I just felt very corny, and I felt like I had to prove to everyone that I was a serious actor. I felt terribly misunderstood.”
Jacob went on to say that he “got guarded for a little while, because [he] made a teen movie." A teen movie that went on to become one of Netflix's most-watched titles, might we add. But that doesn’t seem to interest Jacob much. "I don't want to come to the end of my career and have not been candid and said what's going on and how it feels. So this is the start of me being open, I guess," he added. Loud and clear, we suppose. But we're still team never underestimate the power of a teen rom-com.
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