Jacob Elordi is the bad boy in “Euphoria” thanks to his performance as Nate Jacobs, who is a far cry from the healthier lover the actor played in Netflix “The Kissing Booth.” It was the romantic comedies that first made Elordi an internet sensation, but the actor said GQ Magazine He pushed Netflix to make his character more interesting. Elordi starred opposite Joey King in The Kissing Booth based on the 2012 novel by Beth Reekles. Elordi’s character, Noah, smokes in the novel, but Netflix refused to allow Elordi to smoke on screen.
“I remember saying: He smokes in the book. I need to smoke. He needs cigarettes. He’s a bad boy,” Elordi said, adding that Netflix denied his repeated requests to smoke in the movie.
I was like, ‘That’s nonsense! I remember going to war for it, Elordi continued. “I was like, ‘Are we lying to fucking millions of 14-year-olds? This guy smokes nicotine. It’s written here on page four—look! I imagine people were like, “Jesus sleeps with Christ. Is this guy serious? “
Netflix isn’t the only studio that doesn’t want to portray smoking in their films. Colin Farrell revealed that Warner Bros. banned him from smoking as the penguin in “Batman,” while Emma Stone went on record saying her request to smoke in “Cruella” was turned down by Disney.
“Big studios make big decisions about things like the presence of cigarettes in movies,” Farrell said. ‘I fought valiantly for a cigar. I said at one point, ‘I can make it unlit!’ Just let me be unlit. They were like, ‘No.’ [As if] A group of 12-year-olds will start smoking Cuban cigars because of this [the Penguin is smoking cigars in a movie.]”
Elordi starred with King in three “Kissing Booth” movies, the second still being Netflix’s eighth-biggest original movie of all time with 203.9 million hours watched in its first 28 days. Critics have panned the trilogy, but King recently told The Independent she would never regret her decision to headline the series.
“I couldn’t be more proud of these films,” King said earlier this month while promoting the new action movie “Bullet Train,” now showing in the theater. “I loved them so much and playing this character made me feel so happy. I will never regret those movies, and I love them so much no matter what anyone says.”
King said that although critics liked the imitation of “The Kissing Booth” films, diverse In 2020 the trilogy was “resistant to criticism”.
“I get that the critics haven’t finished with this movie, but here’s the thing – the critics aren’t meant to be like, ‘Wow, what a movie! “It’s meant to be watched and have a good time,” King said.
The “The Kissing Booth” trilogy is streaming on Netflix.
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