Jacob Elordi Says He’s So Tall His ‘Euphoria’ Costars Need to Stand on a Box
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When Jacob Elordi was 15, his mother urged him to try modeling—as all mothers of tall boys suggest, naturally. It didn’t work out. Elordi was told he was actually too tall; the sample sizes wouldn’t fit. “I’m very grateful,” he says in his Men’s Health January cover story. “I truly think I would’ve been miserable if I had to do that.”
Elordi says he was told something similar when he went into acting. Tall men on the screen blend in naturally enough. But if you’re Elordi—appearing in mostly late teen franchises (The Kissing Booth, Euphoria) beside costars who can conceivably pass for high-schoolers—you’re bound to appear, like, extra tall.
Elordi doesn’t think he’s massive. “The trick is they just always cast me with girls who are five-foot-two,” he says. “Everyone’s like, ‘You’re so big!’ Yeah, but they’re also not big, not even average-sized women. They’re quite small.”
Other tricks include having his costars stand on a box so they can be square in a shot with Elordi—and not just hovering around his midsection. Sometimes, he says, he’ll even squat down, spitting his legs into a V to lower himself.
In Euphoria, the team uses Elordi’s height to intimidate; he basically towers over his 5’2” costar and on-screen girlfriend Alexa Demie. The differential is often used to show intimidation. Nate, Elordi’s character, isn’t exactly a pacifist.
How tall is Jacob Elordi?
Elordi is 6’ 5” tall, which, again, isn’t quite NBA tall, but remains tall enough to tower over other actors. Elordi’s height is just another physical feature fans and critics and passersby tend to notice. That noticing, often audible, is getting old pretty fast for Elordi.
“You learn quickly that what people take away from those movies is your stature and your figure,” he says. “You have all sorts of aged people around the world only talking about what you look like.”
In response, Elordi tries to remember his real worth—and how everything else is only temporary.
“It’s a slippery slope to put all your value into the vanity of what your body looks like. Your body is going to deteriorate.”
Or so we’re told of Elordi’s. Right now, it doesn’t seem to be aging.
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