“I snuck into a theater back home in Australia.

Elordi continues, “I haven’t been in a theater where people audibly groan and say ‘no!’

So that was a real treat.

Jacob Elordi in Saltburn

Jacob Elordi in ‘Saltburn’.Courtesy of Prime

What starts off as a summer of fun and longing quickly turns into one of dark and depraved obsession.

When this irony is pointed out to him, Elordi laughs.

“No, no.Saltburnis not too dark for me.

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Jacob Elordi in ‘Saltburn’.MGM/YouTube

The other stuff’s just a little toobigfor me, I think is what I was talking about.

Not so much the subject matter of the story,” he clarifies.

“It was like being in the theater or something.

I felt like I’d been plugged back into the source of what performance was all about.

So it was, for me, an invitation back into acting,” says the star.

“So that was kind of my carry-through.

Elordi and his golden boy alter ego can be seen inSaltburnnow in limited theaters.

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