Rising star Jacob Elordi is back home in Australia to tell a dark tale

Australian actor Jacob Elordi has made it big in Hollywood, but his latest project brought him closer to home and working with a director he always dreamt of collaborating with.

One of Australia’s hottest rising stars has brought it home with his latest project, stepping out for the Australian premiere of new TV series, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Hollywood actor Jacob Elordi had long dreamt of working with director Justin Kurzel with the project bringing them together.

Now, they are looking at what they can do together again.

“Kurzel is like cinema in me,” he said at his Sydney hotel ahead of walking the beige carpet.

“My first cinematic introduction was Snowtown and his films so it wasn’t something that I had not necessarily manifested in any kind of spiritual way but it’s the top of my dreams. And now I am sitting under the Harbour Bridge with him talking about an incredible piece of cinema.”

Jacob Elordi at the Australian Premiere of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Picture: Jonathan Ng

For Kurzel, the feeling was mutual.

“I’d just love to work with him again,” Kurzel said of Elordi.

“It’s wonderful that he came to work on an Australian piece and it’s a really important Australian piece, and I hope it’s the beginning of a great creative relationship.

“I think he’s extraordinary. I thought he was a wonderful actor before we started but he’s the real thing. He’s got a level of depth and immersiveness that’s really rare. He runs on set as an actor, he loves acting. That’s the first thing that you notice about him is that to have an actor that’s deeply curious about it is quite rare actually, and every day sees it as an opportunity to kind of be in something and be curious about something.

Author Richard Flanagan and director Justin Kurzel on the red carpet. Picture: Jonathan Ng

The Narrow Road to the Deep North is based on Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Book Prize award-winning novel of the same name about an Australian doctor haunted by his memories as a prisoner of war building the Burma Railway.

The series premieres on Prime Video on April 18 with many of the stars walking the carpet at the Hoyts Entertainment Quarter at the celebrity studded event.

Narrow Road to the Deep North episodic pictures. Season 1 of the series that tells the story of WWII prisoners of War in Changi. Picture: Supplied

Many of Elordi’s co-stars joined him on the carpet, among them Thomas Weatherill, Odessa Young, Simon Baker, Olivia DeJonge, Essie Davis, Heather Mitchell, Sho Kasamatsu and William Lodder.

Odessa Young on the red carpet for the Australian Premiere of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Simon Baker on the red carpet for the Australian Premiere of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Heather Mitchell and Olivia DeJonge on the red carpet for the Australian Premiere of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Picture: Jonathan Ng

It is a gritty and dark series with Elordi playing lead character, a military soldier named Dorrigo Evans.

“The kind of duality of him is what makes him human and what makes him believable,” Elordi said.

“There hero’s journey can be such a boring one if he is just this moral absolute and is just trying to save people and be the best guy ever, that’s kind of a deplorable person.

“I prefer to deal with someone who’s just a human being who’s dealing with the things that are in front of him the sort of best way that he knows how because it is much more human and true and relatable because ... it’s light and dark, it’s a good and evil kind of thing.

Kurzel has several projects in the works but is looking forward to taking a break while Elordi has just wrapped filming the new version of Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff and will next shoot The Dog Stars in Italy with Ridley Scott.

“It is going to be pretty fantastic,” he said of the film, in which he will star alongside Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce. “I’m very lucky.”