Jacob Elordi hospitalised after painful shower accident filming Wuthering Heights
Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (Warner Bros.)
Hollywood heartthrob Jacob Elordi has revealed he was hospitalised after an accident during the production of Wuthering Heights.
The Australian star, set to return to screens in Euphoria season three, has said he jokingly told Wuthering Heights make-up artist Siân Miller that he was going to “main himself” to get some scars to play Heathcliff. She’d told him that Daniel Day-Lewis would come in with scars if he was playing the classic character.
And while Elordi, 28, might have been joking, he accidentally went full method-acting one day after being on set.
Speaking to the film’s director Emerald Fennell for Esquire, Elordi revealed: “That night I went home, and the house I was staying in had a steam shower: a brass knob that steam came from out of the wall.
“I was sitting on the floor of the shower… 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.”
He explained that when he was filming Netflix smash Frankenstein, a role which saw him bag an Oscar nomination, he didn’t clear off the monstrous make-up between filming days.
But for Wuthering Heights it was different – and that’s where his mistake came.
“So I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob,” he said.
“And I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday I had a second-degree burn.”
Fennell added: “I think that was in the first week of shooting. I got a text from Josey McNamara, the producer, saying, ‘Jacob’s in the hospital.’
“Obviously, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s had a car accident,’ and then he was like, ‘He’s burnt his back in the shower.'”
Elordi stars opposite Barbie actress Margot Robbie in the movie, which is an adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.
Wuthering Heights is set for release on February 13, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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