Elordi reveals burns accident during filming
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Australian actor Jacob Elordi has revealed that he ended up in hospital while filming Wuthering Heights after getting second-degree burns in a “peculiar” incident.
In an interview with Esquire, Elordi said he was sitting on the floor of a shower when he leant his back against a steam knob on the wall.
“I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday, I had a second-degree burn,” he told the magazine.
Which begged the question, why was Elordi sitting on the floor?
“The full story is that, when I was doing Frankenstein, I had so much make-up in my fingers and in my feet all the time, and I left it on for the whole shoot because I couldn’t be bothered washing it all off.
“As Heathcliff, I was covered in mange and dirt, and I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that again, I’m going to clean my feet properly every night and come in to work fresh the next day.’
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“I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob.”
Elordi said the accident was “peculiar” because it happened on the same day that make-up artist Sian Miller had joked that he needed scars for the whips on Heathcliff’s back.
Miller was designing the scars and told Elordi that if Daniel Day-Lewis was playing Heathcliff, he would have come in with scars.
“I said, ‘Well I’m going to go away and maim myself on the weekend to prove to you that I’m Heathcliff!’.
That very night Elordi got scars for real after the shower incident.
Elordi and fellow Queenslander Margot Robbie, 35, star in the new romantic drama film, which is loosely inspired by Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel of the same name.
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Robbie told People her character cries in nearly every scene, but she loved the challenge.
“The movie kind of demands a lot of all of us,” she said.
“My character essentially cries in every single scene, but no, it was a joy. I loved playing a character who kind of swings from one wild emotion to the other in an instant.”
The new movie is written and directed by Emerald Fennell, and the 40-year-old filmmaker stressed that “safety and trust and love” were uppermost in her mind when she helmed the sex scenes.
“It’s always just about making sure everyone feels super comfortable and we all are, really. We trust each other and so we try to kind of make it funny and laugh everything off,” said Fennell, who also directed Elordi in 2023’s Saltburn.
“But love scenes are just the same as any other scene, really. And so we just approach it from an emotional point of view.”
Fennell relished the experience of working with Robbie.
“Do you know what? She’s an inspiration. She’s an extraordinary woman,” she said.
“She’s a mother, she’s a producer, she’s an unbelievably talented actress and she also always has time to be generous to the people around her. And so she’s the best.”
-with AAP
