Jacob Elordi took day trip of his busy schedule to debate his upcoming Australian TV collection, The Slim Highway to the Deep North. The actor, who is about to seem in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and is at present filming Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, spoke to a Berlin media outlet about his upcoming undertaking.
Within the Justin Kurzel-helmed collection, Elordi might be portraying a prisoner of conflict, which requires him to endure drastic weight reduction. Nonetheless, he wasn’t the one actor who needed to undergo the transformation.
His fellow co-stars and background additionally went on the identical six-week weight reduction journey collectively. “Seeing that many, particularly younger, individuals put that effort into one thing, it was genuinely superb to see,” the Saltburn actor mentioned.
Recalling the cumulative effort, Elordi revealed that everybody noticed one another after coming from the weight-reduction plan break and felt shocked by one another’s transformations. “It was like, oh, my God,” he added.
Kurzel additionally appreciated the efforts of the boys and recalled that everybody on the set felt “highly effective” watching their journeys. Nonetheless, he admitted that they had been additionally extremely drained. “They’re sort of wasted away, you understand, the extent of form of focus, you possibly can’t have it for the entire day,” the director revealed.
Kurzel additionally revealed that romance is the “absolute spirit” of the war-drama collection. The Euphoria actor admitted that he was frightened that the love story would overpower the darkish components of the collection, which he cherished to movie, particularly the conflict components.
The collection relies on Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker prize-winning eponymous novel and follows the story of medical officer Dorrigo Evans (Elordi). The character was pressured to work on the Thai-Burma railway as a Japanese conflict prisoner throughout World Warfare II.
The Slim Highway to the Deep North might be launched on April 18, 2025.