He is a feminine man.
Forget Timothée Chalamet’s boyish charm. Women of all ages are intrigued by the sexy, strap-on Jacob Elorodi. Hollywood has found a new leading role in the 6-foot-5 Australian actor who plays the brooding antihero Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s sexy film Wuthering Heights, now in theaters.
“He’s classically hot. Hollywood hot. Tall, striking eyes, a defined jawline. He wears masculine, minimalist suits. He acts like a man,” Gizem Ozcelik, 37, founder of New York-based public relations firm GO PR, told Page Six.
“The unpredictable, undeniable sexual currency he brings to the screen is something everyone can appreciate, not just because it’s live electricity, but because it’s so rare,” added JR Ward, 56, bestselling romance author of the upcoming Crown of War and Shadow. “We are captivated by his gaze.”
In a series of challenging and interesting roles, Elordi, 28, shows that he’s more than just a pretty face, but he certainly is, too, with provocative cheekbones, bushy eyebrows, and hooded brown eyes.
“He plays an emotionally complex character, which gives him extra sex appeal. It makes you want to save him,” Ozchelik said.
She watched Wuthering Heights on Thursday night and said she was “heartbroken” by the erotic film.
He and co-star Margot Robbie “have such great chemistry… it’s almost wild,” Ozcelik said. “I loved it. I cried so hard at the end.”
Fellow Elordi fan Alexa Defina, 34, who works in marketing for the Upper East Sider, also rushed to see the movie on Thursday and was very satisfied.
“Jacob’s Heathcliff was very dark and obsessive…just raw and intense…very hot, leading-man energy,” she told Page Six. “Fainted!”
Elordi can certainly carry a movie on his broad shoulders, but insiders point out that he’s unique among other lead actors.
He has a fully formed masculinity that the waifish Chalamet lacks, even though he’s two years older. But Elordi is also far from a stereotypical sibling.
“I don’t think of Timothée Chalamet as a grown man. And he might be, but he’s not. He’s a movie star because he has that spark and he’s incredibly talented.[But]Jacob Elordi is the kind of actor who could probably grow up. If someone were to remake ‘Gone with the Wind,’ he could star. He’s the guy. That timeless male lead,” casting director Gary said. Zuckerbrod discovered Elordi and cast him in the 2018 teen rom-com “The Kissing Booth.”
Elordi comes from a poor background. He grew up in working class Brisbane. My father was a painter and my mother worked in the school cafeteria.
At the age of 17, he appeared as an extra in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Two years later, he landed his breakthrough role in Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth” and things took off from there.
“This was a kid who had never done anything in local theater in Brisbane. He had a fluidity about him. He had an irresistible charm. You couldn’t take your eyes off him,” Zuckerbrod recalled.
After The Kissing Booth, Elordi showed he was more than just a high school set crush, playing the terrifyingly toxic jock Nate Jacobs in HBO’s edgy Euphoria.
In 2023, he rose to movie stardom with two major roles. He starred as Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and played the enviable Oxford student Felix in Fennell’s twisted erotic thriller Saltburn.
Awards and accolades soon followed. He was nominated for a BAFTA Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Saltburn and has racked up back-to-back nominations, including a Golden Globe and an Oscar, for his transformation of the titular monster in last year’s Frankenstein.
The liquidity Zuckerbrod mentions is what makes Elordi unique. He looks like a high school hunk and plays it well, but his style away from the camera is charming and surprising. He strutted his feminine handbags around town and mastered the red carpet with a look that was the perfect combination of timeless style and a touch of edginess. Not surprisingly, he has three older sisters and is close to his mother.
“From the roles he chooses to the way he carries himself in them, Jacob seems to be unfettered by the traditional expectations and conventions of a male movie star. That means he can do anything, which is incredibly appealing,” Ward said.
And it’s no wonder Hollywood’s leading ladies took a liking to Elordi.
He was dating his Kissing Booth co-star Joey King until the end of 2018. Later, in 2019, rumors surfaced that he was dating his “Euphoria” co-star Zendaya, but he denied the rumors by telling GQ Australia in 2019, “She’s like my sister.” (Paparazzi photos of the two suggested otherwise.)
In 2020, he lit up social media feeds when he dated supermodel Kaia Gerber and was spotted with her in Malibu.
The following year, Page Six reported that the stunning pair had broken up “amicably” after Gerber deleted photos of the “Saltburn” star from her Instagram.
He then had an on-again, off-again relationship with influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli, 26, the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli.
Last week, he was seen leaving an afterparty in London with Australian model Maddie Fogg, 29.
But while he may be dating women in their 20s, Zuckerbrod claims that Elordi appeals to more mature women and could easily play a slightly older female counterpart, like Robbie, who is 35.
“He’s no longer the guy he was when he was 18 to 25, he’s a man now. He has the potential to be the movie star he was back then. He’s very confident. He’s got a level-headedness and a depth of talent,” the casting director said.
He added that Elordi has a unique talent for playing both timeless characters like Heathcliff and Frankenstein as well as modern men.
“If you look at the past films that have been based on Wuthering Heights, you have to have a really well-rounded person,” he said. “He’s not one thing.”
