August 20, 2021
Watch: 'Euphoria' Star Jacob Elordi Talks Prosthetic Penises and Short-Lived Mullet in New Interview
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"Euphoria" hunk Jacob Elordi visited "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" this week where he talked about the HBO show's upcoming second season, which included describing the "penis checks" on the set, reports Bustle.
They came about because of a number of prosthetic penises used for shower scenes in the series that is currently filming its second season, delayed by the pandemic.
"When you come into the makeup trailer, they're all kind of set up," Elordi said, adding that the show's makeup artists have to apply "makeup on the penis" and routinely hold so-called "penis checks" between takes to make sure the "makeup stays on and looks as lifelike as possible."
Elordi also told guest host Julie Bowen how he grew a mullet, only to have his girlfriend Kaia Gerber chop it off after just a week.
"I had always wanted a mullet and my mum never let me have one cause she wanted me to be a gentleman," he explained. His opportunity came with the pandemic lockdown. "But he admitted that his experience as a mullet man was short-lived. 'My girlfriend [Kaia Gerber], within a week of us dating, she cut it off,' he said. 'She took me to the bathroom and she got scissors out.'
"You're cute, but not that cute," he said Gerber told him, which Bowen repeated.
Elordi also discussed how the show, which enters its second season after a pandemic delay, will shake things up.
"It's insane, but it's like a completely different show," he said. He also said that his character Nate will not be clothed as much in Season 2, which touched upon an issue that bothered Elordi: objectification, either from "Euphoria" or "The Kissing Booth" franchise.
On the latter, fans "swooned over his portrayal of Noah Flynn, a self-centered womanizer who eventually falls in love with his brother's best friend," wrote Men's Health in an interview last year. "But it wasn't the 23-year-old's performance they vehemently responded to–it was his washboard abs that became the�piece de resistance, on display whenever the scene warranted it–and the scene warranted it quite a bit."
While filming the third film in Netflix's "The Kissing Booth" series, he said he told the show's creators how he didn't like being admired simply for being buff. "I trained extensively for the first film, because it said it in the script," he says with a laugh when reflecting back to the time. "I was so terribly nervous that I wouldn't be what the script wanted me to be."
The result of his workout routine was the attention on his body, not his acting, which bothered him. "At the time, I was super young and got thrown into a world where everyone wanted to talk about my body... it really fucking bothered me," he told Men's Health. "I don't identify with that whatsoever. I was trying to prove myself and be known as an actor. It was so much working out and I hated every second of it."
When he took the role of Nate in "Euphoria," he slimmed down a bit; then when he shot the second "Kissing Booth" film, he didn't do the same intensive workout regimen he did for the first film. "It ended up working out in his favor, as the movie not only has no distinct shirtless scenes (unless you count him briefly flexing his muscles in the gym), it focuses more on Noah's emotional evolution rather than his physical attributes," added Men's Health.