Jacob Elordi has blasted viewers’ “prudish” reaction Salt combustion bathtub scene.
The scene sees Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) drinking bathwater after secretly watching Felix Catton (Elordi) touch himself in the tub.
This scene got people talking and left quite a few stunned.
Appears on Weekly entertainment‘s Awardist podcast, Elordi said, “I think it actually shows me how delicate we are.”
“When I see it, I just think there are far more extreme things in cinema that I’ve seen, far more graphic,” compared the 28-year-old.
The star – who has witnessed “more alarming” moments in film – can’t understand why viewers don’t react in the same way when it comes to scenes packed with disturbing violence.
Elordi added, “There are several alarming things in the top 10 streamed remakes of crime documentaries on every streaming platform.”
“I think it’s much more alarming, the kind of horrible joy that we all get from seeing children being mutilated. That’s what was interesting to me,” Euphoria said star.
“I thought, ‘Here’s a piece of fiction with something just a little taboo,’ and it makes people’s skin crawl. It’s an interesting parallel,” he added.
Salt combustion – which is about Oxford student Oliver becoming obsessed with his rich-and-aristocratic classmate Felix – was directed by Emerald Fennell.
Fennell talked about the bathtub scene in 2023 Weekly entertainment: “The bathtub was the first, the first image that came to me.”
“It was a boy who said, ‘I wasn’t in love with him,’ and the same boy who licked the bottom of a bathtub. So that was the very center of the film for me, this kind of unreliable narrator, someone who was clearly in extreme lust and who hasn’t yet come to terms with it or had to find another way or explain it,” she said.
