Jacob Elordi kept a promise he made as a teenager Sunday night, taking his mom Melissa as his date to the 2026 Oscars, just like he told her he would when he was 15 years old.
The Euphoria star, 28, who was nominated for best supporting actor for his role as The Creature in Frankensteinstepped onto the red carpet at the Dolby Theater in a classic Bottega Veneta suit, with Melissa arriving alongside him in a striking black dress embellished with red and blue sequins.
Elordi had spoken of the promise of Jimmy Kimmel Live! back in January and explained the story behind it.
“I’m going with mom,” he said.
“I promised her when I was 15 that I would take her. So I have to respect that.”
He also remembered how his father had been somewhat more cautious about whether the plan would ever happen.
“My mom, she totally believed in me the whole time. I remember dad doing that thing that dad did at one point where he said, ‘You’ve got to have a plan B because this isn’t necessarily possible.’ And I think I said something like, ‘My plan B is the Oscars.'”
It turned out that there was no need for plan B.
Although Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor that night, Frankenstein was far from empty-handed, picking up wins for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup & Hairstyling and Best Production Design.
For Elordi, however, the night may well be remembered less for what happened on stage and more for the moment he walked the red carpet with the woman who believed in him all along.
