Aussie actor Jacob Elordi shows off new mullet in GQ Australia
Actor Jacob Elordi — known for Netflix movie The Kissing Booth and popular TV series Euphoria — reveals what he has been doing after returning home to Australia for the coronavirus lockdown as he appears on the cover of GQ’s July-August edition.
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He’s meant to be in Los Angeles shooting the next season of Euphoria, but instead, Aussie actor Jacob Elordi has been bunkering down in his parents’ home growing a mullet.
The Kissing Booth actor came home in February as COVID-19 began to take hold in the US.
“I was supposed to start shooting but shit was starting to get weird in LA,” Elordi told GQ in its July-August edition, on sale July 20.
“And the last place on Earth I want to be when shit gets weird is America, so I booked a ticket and dipped out.
“The reality for me was that it was large enough to stop production, which is a huge thing — movies will keep going even if there’s a civil war. So that’s how crazy it was.”
The 23-year-old said his new mullet has given him a “huge sense of freedom”.
“It is luscious,” he said.
“Usually I have this all-American short back and sides but I hate that haircut. I hate having super-short hair. So this is the first time I’ve been able to grow it.”
He has also used the downtime to write his own screenplay.
“I get super restless so I just make work for myself. I’m working on a screenplay right now, that’s sort of this Australian-set story, and I’m onto a second draft.
“I’ll sit for a couple of hours and write and do rewrites, and then I’ll read and then I have a little area where I can paint. It’s been really good to just have time to get back to the basics of what I like to do.
“There’s no rules to it and I don’t have a deadline, so it’s fun to just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.”
* GQ Australia July-August 2020 edition is on sale Monday, July 20. Go to gq.com.au