Austin Butler landed a highly coveted role in Hollywood when he was cast to bring Elvis Presley to life in Baz Luhrmann‘s biopic Elvis, and he faced stiff competition to book the Oscar-nominated role.
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Jacob Elordi and Colman Domingo are opening up about their careers.
The Euphoria co-stars had a conversation together for the Actors on Actors issue of Variety, out now.
During their conversation, the two discussed their respective roles in Priscilla and Rustin, being mama’s boys, barely meeting on the set of Euphoria, their careers, and much more.
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On being mama’s boys:
Colman: “Something like, ‘Where will we be without the dreams of our mothers?’ I’m a mama’s boy.”
Jacob: “Me too. When you said that, man, I started crying. I take my mom everywhere with me, but I realized in that moment that every performance I give is an extension of the things she wanted for me. How did that push you? Because she’s the only reason why I do what I do.”
Colman: “My mom was my best friend. She was a dreamer. She was spiritual and lovely and believed in the good of mankind. I was shy, bookish, awkward, skinny and not cool at all, in West Philadelphia.”
Colman on losing his mother:
“I lost my mother in 2006. I was devastated and told my friend, ‘What am I going to do with all this love?’ She said, ‘You’re going to pour it into everything that you do.’”
Jacob on barely crossing paths with Colman on Euphoria:
“It’s wild that we’ve barely crossed paths, which is kind of a gift too; I can sit back and marvel at your work because I’m not there seeing how you work. I was always a little intimidated on set every time I saw you, because you’re about your craft. I was at home last night doing research like I was about to play you in a movie or something because I was so nervous. I was like, “I need him to understand that I care the same way he does.”
Colman on his career:
“My career
Austin Butler landed a highly coveted role in Hollywood when he was cast to bring Elvis Presley to life in Baz Luhrmann‘s biopic Elvis, and he faced stiff competition to book the Oscar-nominated role.
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Saltburn alongside Barry Keoghan. The movie might not have been a box office smash, but critics had a lot to say about director and writer Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman.It’s slightly gay, all the way crazy, and both stars are able to demonstrate what they can do on screen.Around the same time, Elordi can also be seen in Priscilla, the biopic that focuses on Elvis Presley’s wife.
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Billie Eilish starred alongside Kate McKinnon in a Christmas Saturday Night Live sketch this weekend about a cat adoption campaign.The pop star and SNL alum played cat ladies at the ‘Whiskers R We’ pet store for a pun-filled sketch on Saturday (December 16), which saw them show off cats available for adoption during their “Holiday Cat-tacular”.The pair barely kept it together as Barbara DeDrew (McKinnon) and intern Paw-bree Hep-Purrn (Eilish) introduced cats with names like Cindy Claw-ford and Furr-ell Williams.Musical guest Eilish also appeared in another pre-recorded skit on the episode, the second being an acoustic song about a group of women (McKinnon, Eilish, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Paula Pell) working on a tampon farm.Check out both of the sketches below.Elsewhere on Saturday’s episode, Eilish performed her Barbie soundtrack hit ‘What Was I Made For’ and a stripped-back rendition of Frank Sinatra‘s ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.The singer has previously appeared as a guest on SNL, performing a memorable rotating rendition of ‘Bad Guy’ in 2019, followed by a 2021 visit to play ‘Male Fantasy’ and ‘Happier Than Ever’ from her second album.In other news from the ‘Ocean Eyes’ singer, Eilish recently announced her third album is nearly done.This weekend’s episode of SNL also featured an ABBA spoof –starring McKinnon, Wiig, Rudolph and current cast member Bowen Yang – during which they posed as the Swedish pop legends in a skit about the band promoting a holiday album.Longtime SNL performer McKinnon announced she was leaving the show last year after a decade, later sharing that she “felt like it was time”.Meanwhile, Jacob Elordi and Reneé Rapp have been announced for the first Saturday Night Live of
Saturday Night Live of 2024.Elordi – who stars as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and is best known as Nate Jacobs in Euphoria – will host on January 20 while actor/singer Rapp will appear as the musical guest on the show.It comes after Barbiedirector Greta Gerwig made a surprise appearance on SNL at the weekend to introduce Billie Eilish, who sang two songs as the final musical guest of 2023.Elordi, who stars in the new film Saltburn, was recently pitched to star in a new Twilight reboot as Edward Cullen alongside Jenna Ortega.Earlier this year, The Hollywood Reporter claimed that a new TV series based on the original Stephanie Meyer book series was in the works.Original Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke endorsed the idea of the actor playing Cullen in a recent podcast adding: “Have you seen Saltburn? He’s amazing. He probably would be Edward today.
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Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Jacob Elordi will host “Saturday Night Live” on Jan. 290 with Reneé Rapp as his musical guest. Elordi is currently starring in the Amazon film “Saltburn” and in the A24 feature “Priscilla” where he played American legend Elvis.
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Saltburn, a firm fave on the festival circuit, and indeed here on the site, is set to arrive on Prime Video all around the world from 22nd December.Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, and Carey Mulligan lead the cast of the film which is written and directed by Fennell.Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.We reviewed the film recently describing it as ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley by the way of Rules of Attraction and Cruel Intentions.
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