Jacob Elordi might have felt “dead inside” whereas filming the Kissing Booth trilogy, however Taylor Zakhar Perez was more than pleased to be there.
“I thought it was a shame because to my knowledge, everybody else had such a wonderful experience,” Perez, 31, advised Variety in a Friday, November 17, interview. “It’s a shame that was [Elordi’s] experience. Especially when those movies came out, it was a time when we really needed something like that.”
The Kissing Booth first premiered in 2018 and starred Elordi, 26, alongside Joey King and Joel Courtney. Perez joined the solid for the franchise’s subsequent sequels, which hit Netflix in 2020 and 2021 on the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Perez advised Variety that judging from his personal followers’ interactions and getting stopped “everywhere” he goes, he can see what The Kissing Booth “means to people and what it brought them during such a dark time.” He added that for Elordi, the silver lining is that he “still made people laugh and feel good.”
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Elordi made headlines earlier this month when he revealed that he didn’t need to make the movies even “before” he began capturing them, telling GQ, “Those movies are ridiculous. They’re not universal. They’re an escape.”
The Priscilla star described the rom-com trilogy as “one for them, one for me” movies — a Hollywood phrase that describes actors doing one huge funds film for cash to permit them the chance for smaller ardour initiatives. Elordi famous that the idea of “one and one” was a “trap” he didn’t need to fall into.
“Because it can become 15 for them, none for you,” he defined. “You have no original ideas and you’re dead inside. So, it’s a fine dance. My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.”
When requested if he’d heard from his former costars relating to his feedback on the movies, Elordi advised Variety earlier this week that he hadn’t, however clarified that he’s “incredibly grateful to everybody” concerned in them.
This isn’t the primary time Elordi has been vocal about his distaste for the Kissing Booth franchise. He beforehand advised Esquire in 2021 that he felt “corny” and “terribly misunderstood” due to the films he’s made prior to now. “I had to prove I was a serious actor,” he defined.
Elordi has since steered away from the rom-com style and delved into extra dramatic roles together with Nate Jacobs on HBO’s Euphoria and Elvis Presley in Sophia Coppola’s 2023 movie Priscilla, which is predicated on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me.
Earlier this month, Elordi opened up about enjoying a facet of the King of Rock n Roll that some individuals might not need to see.
“For me, it was portraying this person the way that she had described him in the moments that [Priscilla] had described,” he advised E! News on the time. When requested why he was “so good at playing troubled men,” Elordi replied, “I don’t know if it’s necessarily always troubled men. It’s just I enjoy playing complex people.”
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