Jacob Elordi slams ‘Kissing Booth’ franchise as ‘ridiculous’: You’re ‘dead inside’

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the 26-year-old Aussie actor graces the cover, Elordi told the magazine that his “Kissing Booth” films on Netflix were “ridiculous movies” and made him feel “dead inside.” “I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies,” he said of the wildly popular franchise. “Those movies are ridiculous.

They’re not universal. They’re an escape.” The star of HBO’s “Euphoria” went on to talk about the old “one for them, one for me” mantra, discussing how he balances more artful projects with the blockbusters Hollywood thrives on.“That one’s a trap as well.

Because it can become 15 for them, none for you. You have no original ideas and you’re dead inside. So it’s a fine dance … My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.” The actor stands by his insistence on high stands, and is shocked when people bristle at it. “How is caring about your output pretentious?” Elordi asked. “But not caring, and knowingly feeding people s – – t, knowing that you’re making money off of people’s time, which is literally the most valuable thing that they have.

How is that the cool thing?” Elordi dated his “Kissing Booth” co-star Joey King from 2017 to 2018. “It was such an interesting experience meeting your boyfriend on-set because you spend so much time together and become so close so fast,” she told Bello magazine in 2018. “We were spending 17 hours a day together, and all of us would hang out after work and watch movies together and stuff.