Jacob Elordi criticized the “prudish” reaction of viewers to the salty burn bathtub scene.
In the scene, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) drinks bath water after secretly watching Felix Catton (Elordi) touch himself in the bathtub.
This scene caused people to talk and left many dumbfounded.
appearing in Entertainment Weekly‘s Prize On the podcast, Elordi said, “I actually think it shows me how much of a prude we are, I guess.”
“When I see that, I think that there are much more extreme things in cinema than what I have seen, much more graphic,” compared the 28-year-old.
The star, who has witnessed “most alarming” moments in movies, can’t understand why viewers don’t react the same way when it comes to scenes filled with harrowing violence.
Elordi added: “There are more alarming things in the 10 most streamed crime documentary remakes across all streaming platforms.”
“I think it’s much more alarming, the kind of horrible joy that we all experience in seeing children being mutilated. That’s what interested me,” he said. Euphoria said the star.
“I thought, ‘Here’s a piece of fiction with something a little taboo,’ and that makes people’s skin crawl. It’s an interesting parallel,” he further mentioned.
salty burn – which follows Oxford student Oliver obsessed with his rich and aristocratic classmate Felix – was directed by Emerald Fennell.
Speaking about the bathtub scene in 2023, Fennell said Entertainment Weekly: “The bathtub was the first thing, the first image that came to me.”
“It was a boy saying, ‘I wasn’t in love with him,’ and that same boy was licking the bottom of a bathtub. So that was the center of the movie for me, this kind of unreliable narrator, someone who was clearly in the grip of an extreme desire and who hadn’t yet come to terms with it or who had had to find another way to come to terms with it or explain it,” she concluded.
