Extended Interview: Jacob Elordi
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Australian actor Jacob Elordi talks with Tracy Smith about his Oscar-nominated performance as the Creature in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein"; playing Elvis Presley in Sophia Coppola's "Priscilla"; and taking on the role of Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jane Pauli. He's nominated for an Oscar for his role in the movie Frankenstein. And you might say he sizzles as Heathcliff in the film adaptation of Wuthering Heights. So what does Jacob Allorty have on his mind? |
| 0:24.4 | He speaks with Sunday mornings Tracy Smith. So we're just going to dive right in Frankenstein. |
| 0:29.8 | Is that cool with you? Come on, please. Okay. No pleasantries. No, please not. Forget them. |
| 0:33.9 | So Frankenstein, you've called this the most demanding role of your career. |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, yeah, I think just by the nature of the size of the movie and the kind of the undertaking of the prosthetics. |
| 0:50.2 | And also just the size of Guillermo's vision. |
| 0:56.0 | And, you know, that's a big movie. They don't really make movies like this anymore, you know. |
| 0:59.0 | That makes total sense. |
| 1:00.0 | Let's talk about the prosthetics a little bit. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | How long were you in makeup for the full prosthetics? |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, it would depend. |
| 1:08.0 | When he was freshly minted and newborn, you know, head to toe sort of sculpture, it was 10 or 11 hours, depending on, you know, how much we were moving or whatnot. |
| 1:20.6 | And then when he's in his coat, and you can sort of just see this section of his body it's about five to six hours. |
| 1:28.3 | Only five to six hours. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, which was a treat. |
| 1:31.3 | That was like, okay, thank God, it's a short day. |
| 1:33.3 | Guillermo said that he wanted you to push past your breaking point. |
| 1:38.3 | Did you feel, yeah. Do you feel like you did? |
| 1:41.3 | No, I just, I remember at one point, there became a point in filming where I would just stare at him. |
| 1:50.0 | Because I was pretty non-verbal the whole time we were filming and Guillermo and I were the only, we would stay on set the whole time. |
| 1:58.0 | So if there was a lunch break or something, the pair of us would be on set and I would just stare at him. And he looked back at me one time and he said, he's like, I'll let you know when you can break. And it actually, it was like a pat on the back. You know, I knew I was submitting myself to him and I could trust him. And he did. And it was when the film was over, you know, but it was a great, it was a great |
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