Jacob Elordi kept a promise he made as a teenager on Sunday night and took his mother Melissa as his date to the 2026 Academy Awards, just like he told her he would when he was 15.
He Euphoria star, 28, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as The Creature in frankensteinstepped onto the Dolby Theater red carpet in a classic Bottega Veneta suit, with Melissa arriving at her side in a striking black dress adorned with red and blue sequin flowers.
Elordi had spoken of the promise in Jimmy Kimmel live! in January, explaining the story behind it.
“I’m going to take mom,” he said.
“I promised her when I was 15 that I would take her. So I have to keep it.”
He also remembered that his father had been considerably more cautious about whether the plan would ever come to fruition.
“My mom completely believed in me the whole time. I remember Dad doing the dad thing at one point where he said, ‘You have to have a plan B because this isn’t necessarily feasible.’ And I think I said something like, ‘My plan B is the Oscars.'”
As it turned out, no plan B was required.
Although Sean Penn took home the award for Best Supporting Actor that night, frankenstein was far from empty-handed, winning awards for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design.
For Elordi, however, the night may be remembered less for what happened onstage and more for the moment he walked the red carpet with the woman who believed in him all along.
