American viewers baffled by Aussie actor Jacob Elordi’s accent

Brisbane-born actor Jacob Elordi made his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live over the weekend – and viewers were confused.

Brisbane-born actor Jacob Elordi made his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live over the weekend – and left some viewers in the US thoroughly confused.

The 26-year-old actor first found worldwide attention in US productions like Euphoria and The Kissing Booth film trilogy – both of which saw him using an American accent.

Jacob Elordi hosting Saturday Night Live.

More recently, he had a starring role in the controversial Emerald Fennell film Saltburn – where he played a Brit – and will soon portray Elvis in Sofia Coppolla’s biopic Priscilla.

So when the rising star stepped out on the SNL stage over the weekend and greeted viewers with his natural Aussie accent, some in the US were understandably confused.

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JACOB ELORDI HAS AN ACCENT??? pic.twitter.com/ll6kXBo5xz

— ccl 🎀 (@marlasversion) January 21, 2024

jacob elordi’s american accent so good i be forgetting he’s australian

— kai 🧸 (@quokkaris) January 20, 2024

I did NOT know Jacob Elordi had that accent 😭

— RΞΞZUS (@ReciRich) January 21, 2024

JACOB ELORDI HAS AN ACCENT?

— eddie (@agrosserlook) January 21, 2024

jacob elordi sounds like he’s faking his accent sorry don’t believe it be normal

— naldo/yaya| boring white man enthusiast (@arakilesbian) January 19, 2024

watching snl and why did no one tell me jacob elordi has an accent oh 😭

— Mil (@ivycoversyou) January 21, 2024

But others on social media had a different take, insisting Elordi was actually sounding less Australian than he used to, perhaps due to his years spent working in the US.

jacob elordi is losing his aussie accent i can't do this...

— bea (@munalivs) January 17, 2024

jacob elordi another victim of an australian moving overseas and gaining the most disgusting combo accent you’ve ever heard

— finn 💫🍉 (@etffobtvftv) January 19, 2024

if jacob elordi loses his accent, i am taking a stand for aussies to only act in aussie movies

— mak (@zenyattaluvr420) January 20, 2024

what the hell happened to jacob elordi’s accent?

— katie (@IR0NST4RK) January 19, 2024

In a GQ interview last year, Elordi explained that the slight American twang to his Aussie accent had come about since spending a quarter of his 26 years in the US.

And before that, he’d been practising it since he was a teen, with a dream of becoming a Hollywood actor.

“I think I just wanted to be able to mimic the people that I thought were cool,” he told the outlet, confessing he initially modelled his American accent on Vin Diesel.

Elordi was supported at SNL by on-again, off-again girlfriend Olivia Jade Giannulli, despite recent reports the pair had broken up.

US Weekly had reported last week that the couple, who most recently rekindled their romance in May 2023, were no longer dating.