Jacob Elordi has opened up about the accident that landed him in the hospital. The actor shared how he suffered from second-degree burns at his house during the time he was filming as Heathcliff for Wuthering Heights.
Jacob Elordi talks about his second-degree burn
In a recent interview with Esquire, Jacob Elordi detailed the freak accident he suffered while filming Wuthering Heights. The actor revealed that he ended up getting second-degree burns and had to be taken to the hospital.
Elordi recalled how his film’s makeup artist, Siãn Miller, dared him to method-act while she “was designing the scars from the whips for Heathcliff’s back.” The Euphoria star said, “She challenged me: ‘If Daniel Day-Lewis was playing Heathcliff, he would have come in with scars.’ I said, “Well, I’m going to go away and maim myself on the weekend to prove to you that I’m Heathcliff!”
Although Elordi meant it as a joke, he did unintentionally suffer physical pain in real life following a scary accident later in his home. “That night I went home, and the house I was staying in had a steam shower: a brass knob that steam came from out of the wall; I was sitting on the floor of the shower,” Elordi began explaining.
He continued, “The full story is that, when I was doing Frankenstein, I had so much make-up in my fingers and in my feet all the time, and I left it on for the whole shoot because I couldn’t be bothered washing it all off. As Heathcliff, I was covered in mange and dirt, and I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that again, I’m going to clean my feet properly every night and come in to work fresh the next day.'”
Elordi concluded, “So I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob and I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday I had a second-degree burn.” The Oscar-nominated star wound up in the hospital after burning his back.
