Jacob Elordi has come a long way!! The 25-year-old may be one of the hottest actors right now — in every sense of the word — but even after making it big on Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, he was struggling to make ends meet at the start of Euphoria!
In a new interview with GQ out on Monday, the Australian revealed he was essentially broke and living in his car as he began work on the HBO drama! Related: Will Canada Ban Lori Loughlin From Crossing Border To Film New Movie?? Jacob’s first breakout role was starring as Noah Flynn in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, which was released in 2018 and quickly became one of the streamer’s “most watched movies in the world” at the time, according to co-CEO Ted Sarandos.
So, you’d think the leading man in a movie like that would have been set up for success, right? Wrong! After the movie wrapped in 2017, Jacob made the big move from Brisbane, Australia to LA in hopes of booking more roles — but the only problem was nobody knew who he was at that point!
His Netflix success hadn’t come yet, and so he was having a tough time landing more roles. He crashed on a friend’s couch in the San Fernando Valley for a couple of weeks, according to the outlet.
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