Jacob Elordi Reveals All About His Steamy Scenes with Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights and the Spark That Proved Their Chemistry

JACOB ELORDI will hit the Baftas red carpet tonight with the same swagger his brooding character Heathcliff radiates in Wuthering Heights.

The 6ft 5in Aussie hunk hopes to win Best Supporting Actor at the star-studded ceremony for playing The Creature in gothic horror flick Frankenstein.

Jacob Elordi will strut the Baftas red carpet with the same swagger his brooding character Heathcliff exudes in Wuthering HeightsCredit: The Mega Agency Margot Robbie at the Wuthering Heights’ first UK screening in LondonCredit: Getty

And in yet another boost to his flourishing career, , 28, has now become odds-on favourite to replace as the next .

Bookies have increased his chances of being cast as 007 from just 14/1 last week to 5/4, toppling previous favourite Callum Turner. Aaron ­Taylor-Johnson and Theo James are also popular picks.

But it is Jacob’s raunchy role as Heathcliff in period drama adaptation Wuthering Heights that is getting cinema crowds hot under the collar.

While erotic scenes have his co-star bursting out of her bodice, the film is also ravishing the global box office, raking in £56million on its opening weekend.

And Jacob reveals there was ­sizzling chemistry between him and Margot, who plays love-struck Cathy, from the moment they met.

He said: “It’s like, ‘Action’ and it’s like a horse at the race track — straight out of the gates.”

But he insists that sex scenes are actually “no different to choreo- graphing a fight scene or a dance sequence”, explaining: “It’s super- technical, especially the scene where, it’s not a sex scene, but where I’m on top [of Margot] with my hands — that’s choreographed because, in that kind of light, you only have so much space to move.

“So what you do has to fit in the frame and work with the lighting.”
And he added: “If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within five to ten metres at all times.”

Earlier this week, Margot agreed in an interview that the film is “horny from the off”.

Meanwhile, when asked to sum up his character, Jacob has said: “Passion. Wears his heart on his sleeve, always there, constantly watching over you, would kill somebody for you.

Screen lovers Cathy and Heathcliff are a global box office sensationCredit: Alamy Clips of the stars placing their fingers seductively in each other’s mouths have appeared on a porn website

“Any image is inspired by that depravity and love and obsession.”

Director Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation of centres on the intense, passionate and often destructive bond between Catherine Earnshaw and her childhood friend Heathcliff.

Although , Jacob absolutely wowed audiences and critics with his performance as the “beautiful ­monster” in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

The role, in which he was virtually unrecognisable, has won him an Oscar nomination. Each day, he had to undergo an elaborate physical transformation in the make-up chair. “It was about 40-something pieces, constructed like a puzzle,” he said.

“It was head to toe. When he’s naked, it took 11 hours. Then sometimes, when he has clothes on, it was anywhere from four to six hours, just to do his head. But it was an ­incredibly cathartic sort of process.

“By the time I got out of the chair, it felt like the way my blood flow had changed direction because you’ve been sitting for so long or standing for so long, and sort of going in and out of these trances.

“You end up coming out in a monastic kind of state by the time you get to set.”

Born in Brisbane, Jacob grew up in a working-class family. His dad John was a house painter, while mum Melissa volunteered in a school cafe.

He was 11 when he saw the late Heath Ledger as The Joker in 2008 movie The Dark Knight and vowed to follow in the footsteps of his ­fellow Aussie heart-throb. Jacob loved sport but after snapping a bone in his back in a gym injury, he decided to focus on drama — which took him on a long road to stardom.

“Breaking my back was like the best way to not ever have to play sport again,” he recalled.

Jacob enrolled at drama school in , but quit after a year when he won his first acting role.

Few will remember that early screen appearance, in which he wore nothing but a skimpy pair of ­Speedos in the film Swinging Safari, alongside and Guy Pearce. It was released in early 2018, by which time Jacob had moved to ­Hollywood in search of fame.

He said: “I didn’t graduate, so I don’t have that degree. But it was like school in that I didn’t see eye to eye with the structure of the school and everything like that. And they also have this thing at drama school where you can’t audition for TV or film while you’re learning how to be an actor. It’s like you need to fully focus on your craft, which I felt I was doing by pursuing a career in it.

“So, eventually, I had to leave because I was auditioning for things.

Margot and Jacob at Wuthering  Heights premiere in Oz this monthCredit: Getty Jacob as The Creature in FrankensteinCredit: Alamy

“I knew I had this very finite moment to get to America and hit the ground running.”

At 19, Jacob was living in his car and sleeping on friends’ couches, fearing his US visa would expire before he found work.

He said: “I just remember sitting on my phone to my mom, crying.

“I was in Westwood and I thought Westwood was West .

“And I got stuck on a bus somewhere and, like, someone tried to kill me. It was horrible. And then I had nowhere to live. And I didn’t want to ask my parents for money any more. So I was living in my RAV4 on Mulholland Drive for a little second. It was very much part of the, ‘I guess I struggled’.”

Eventually, the gamble paid off and Jacob got a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role as an extra on Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

It led to a meatier part as bad boy Noah in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, filmed in South Africa. It was a hit with Gen Z viewers and catapulted Jacob to pin-up status overnight.

He said: “It genuinely was because they come out at, like, midnight when the clock turns over to the release date. I woke up into a completely different world. The internet is insane. It was so frightening.

“It was like I could feel the internet manifesting in the real world. I would go out to my coffee shop, and I all of a sudden felt like I was in The Truman Show. It was scary. I went to immediate alarm bells. It was very stressful, because I thought my hair was going to fall out.”

Jacob dated The Kissing Booth’s Joey King for a year, before his big break as footballer Nate Jacobs in , alongside

Things quickly snowballed from there, as Jacob was cast as Elvis in Sofia Coppola’s 2023 film, Priscilla.

He had to pile on the pounds to play the king of rock ’n’ roll. “I did get fatter than I’ve ever been, and it was incredible,” said Jacob.

“I was in Canada shooting, so I just ate bacon and maple syrup and I was quite chunky and my hair was dyed black and I had this stupid bowl-cut haircut — and I had leftover eyeliner every day.”

Jacob had to shed the weight just as rapidly to play a Burmese prisoner of war in drama The Narrow Road To The Deep North. He said: “I started losing weight throughout the year, then played the pre-prisoner of war camp bit a bit thinner.

“And then we went into what we called the death camp portion of the show, and everyone starved themselves for six, seven weeks.”

Jacob became a household name when Emerald Fennell cast him as aristocrat Felix in the 2023 dark ­psychological drama Saltburn.

After meeting the British director, he said: “She was very specific about what the film needed to be, and what the character needed to be — and the tightrope that needed to be walked between being a deplorable piece of s**t and a ray of sunlight.”

Clearly Jacob nailed the brief, as Emerald vowed that should she ever direct Wuthering Heights on the big screen, he must be her Heathcliff.