- It's from when Fesco beat me up.
Very cool.
Actor, Jacob Elordi plummets to his death
from Hollywood sign.
[synth-wave music playing]
Kind of speaks for itself, you know what I mean?
It's pretty surreal.
I remember when I was small,
the first memory I have of coming to Hollywood,
I was like eight years old and I have this impossible memory
'cause it wouldn't work from where I was standing.
But I was where the sort of,
the stars on the Boulevard.
And there was this postcard of James Dean.
And I remember saying to my mom, I was like
who is this guy?
Like, his head is everywhere.
In my memory, it's burned in.
There's like this slow motion turn around.
And there was just this giant white sign.
So it's impossible from where I was on the strip.
But for some reason that's like what stuck with me.
It's kind of, I don't know.
It's quite magical.
Listen pal, listen hound.
[Jacob makes a kissing sound]
Hey, she's only a natural actress.
She doesn't perform for the camera.
Listen
I gotta be better.
There's a Hollywood girl.
She is.
I've lived in LA.
I think it must be close to four years now.
I used to live in, in like a tiny
tiny apartment in the back of the valley.
I would look down sort of over Hollywood
and over the Hills here and I'd see these houses
and I'd be like, man, who lives there?
Like who lives underneath the Hollywood sign?
I was in acting school for about six months
and I was auditioning for projects and stuff like that.
And then I sort of booked my first movie
from those or auditions.
And then, when I made that movie
and I was like, sweet, I'm set now.
I'm gonna be the greatest actor that ever lived.
And then it was like crickets.
It was like two years of just, you know
going through the works, doing the pilot season stuff.
It's just in and out of casting offices.
So close, you're too this, you are too that.
You're not this, you're not that.
You're a terrible actor.
And then, you know, now four years later, you know
I'm looking at it from the other side and,
it's a pretty surreal experience, you know?
I think "Euphoria" is like,
this cocktail of every single possible experience that
a teenager might have
or a human being might have.
Put into one high school.
And I think there's something in every character
that you can relate to.
And there's these, these human themes, you know
of this love and loss and being wanted and not being wanted.
And I think that's what the beauty is of the show is that,
you have so much time that you can kind of
dive into his life and, and see where he comes from.
And, and once you see sort of his dad's story
and his dad's kind of trauma, and that being passed
down to him, it's kind of like, you know,
I doubt there's anyone that can really come out of that
situation unscathed and you know a happy camper.
Everyone is born into this world.
And then you get given a set of experiences to play by
you know, so there's, there's a reason
behind the most heinous, awful people in the world.
There's always a story behind, you know
that kind of trauma and that kind of tragedy.
And whilst it doesn't validate their actions, I think,
I think it's good to have empathy
and sit back and realize that everyone comes from somewhere.
Go.
[Jacob humming]
I think I make a pretty mean Cup o' Joe.
It's good soup.
Oh, this is a painting
by my friend, Marko Ristić, the magnificent Mackey.
He's mad, man.
But it's like a Buffalo 66 take.
And it's my favorite.
I just don't have anywhere to put it in here,
because it's like a, a black hole.
And I feel like I'll get sucked into it
and never come out again.
This is a gift from a dear, dear friend
and it's "Rebel Without a Cause" poster from Japan.
This is probably like my prize possession.
Before this movie men weren't allowed to show like,
tears or like a great amount of pain on screen
which is also interesting that this is
like a Japanese print because in Japanese culture
it's the same kind of thing in their cinema.
There's like, there's no tears, no crying.
And then you have James Dean on the screen
like just tearing himself, not to use the quote
but like literally tearing himself to pieces on screen.
I would just like kill to go back
to that time and be in a theater
and like be a young man and like, see that performance.
It must have been crazy.
You know?
You know, I have been watching a bunch of film noir
but when I really got into film noir was,
I was supposed to play Orson Wells in this movie.
And I sort of started with his radio plays and stuff
but then kind of got into his pitches after "Citizen Kane".
And sort of the nature of them to me was just like,
so alluring because you have these absurd in depth
crisscrossy plot lines
and these kind of crazy masculine, like stoic characters.
The greatest leading men of their time
like the biggest movie stars in these dark rooms,
dreaming about this incredibly beautiful actress.
Like it's the dark room, it's the cigarettes, the top hats,
the old cars, the clipped sentences,
you know, it's everything about it is like,
it's probably one of the sexiest genres of film
that there is, you know?
I wish that we, I mean,
I guess we still do kind of make them,
but I would like to make like, an original
like hardcore film noir picture.
You know, that that's a dream of mine for sure.
[noir jazz playing]
Oh, there I was.
A promising young buck from Brisbane, Queensland.
My Australian accent, long gone.
My appetite for the truth,
insatiable.
24 hours by God, I wish we had that kind of time.
You know, I could have been somebody,
I could have been something, but I sat there
and I waited,
and I waited.
Till finally she called.
- [Interviewer] Jacob.
Jacob?
- Anyway.
- [Interviewer] What the hell was that?
- Thank you for stopping by,
and taking a peek at all my peculiarities.
I'm off to the pictures.
[upbeat synth-wave playing]
Hello.
- [Ice cream Vendor] Hi, how are you?
- How is it going?
- Good, how are you doing?
[indistinct chatter]
- That one.
Thanks very much.
Appreciate ya.
Yeah, I'm just taking a picture of these flowers.
They just look really nice.
We are on our way to the, to the "Los Feliz" theater.
which is this nice little cute theater
in Los Feliz, strangely enough,
but it's one of my favorite places to watch movies in LA.
Before the pandemic,
I would, I went almost every day.
I would say to go see a movie
especially cause when I first moved to LA, it was like
I didn't know anybody.
And it was just like this communal space where I could go.
And like, you know,
the people in the movies were like my friends.
Going to the cinema has always been kind of like,
kind of informed what the dream of being here was for me,
when I was 11, I was in Coffs Harbor
and I went with my dad to see
Chris Nolan's "The Dark Knight".
And I think that was the first time I remember
watching Heath Ledger.
And when he's like, how about a magic trick?
And he slammed that guy's head
into the pencil and the pencil disappeared.
I was like, that's what I want to do, whatever that is.
That's what I want to do.
Strangely enough. I've been here for four or five years now.
And because of this kind of terrifying new digital age
I've only ever really made things that are
on like streamers or on television.
And I haven't really made like a, you know, like a
a movie yet.
And I think every time I go to the theater
it's hard to not sit there and be like, that's what I,
I want to do that.
Thanks so much for spending the day with me.
I'm gonna go and see a movie now.
[jazz music playing]