Jacob Elordi's recent encounter with the paparazzi at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris on December 10 was far from a euphoric experience. The Frankenstein star was confronted by photographers, and in a moment of frustration, he expressed his displeasure with being photographed without permission. After one photographer expressed his admiration for the 28-year-old, he took out an earbud to deliver a message of disapproval. "You make it really hard for me to live when you do this," he said in the December 10 Instagram video. "I don't love you."
Dressed in black, with sunglasses and a baseball cap, Jacob kept a low profile as he was escorted through the historic station, ultimately waiting for a nearby elevator. It was there that he exchanged more words with the photographers. "You make it really hard for me to live, all of you," he continued. "You make it really hard for me."
Since his rapid rise to fame, Jacob has been candid about the challenges of living in the spotlight. "I woke up into a completely different world," he recalled on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast in an interview published November 14. "The internet is insane. It was so frightening. I could feel the internet manifesting in the real world."
In fact, Jacob recounted feeling so surveilled that his life felt like its own one-man production, adding, "Like, I would go out to my coffee shop, and all of a sudden I felt like I was in The Truman Show."
Despite the pressures of fame, the Australian native couldn't be happier with his on-screen career. At a screening of his most recent film, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Jacob recalled his emotional reaction to his family's support. "And then something happened when I was in Venice," he explained. "I was there with my sister and my mom and my dad, and during that ovation, I saw them standing behind me, and I saw my agent, whom I’ve known for ten years now, and I kind of looked around, and I realized I was exactly where I was supposed to be my whole life. And every day since making that movie, in this industry I’ve felt a kind of great calm that I’m in the right place, I’m meant to be here."
Guillermo has also given Jacob his flowers for the powerful performance, especially when it came to the actor's intense transformation process. "He took around 10 hours every day," Guillermo exclusively told E! News October 6, "and about 42 pieces of makeup and prosthetics. And then he would have to work." That being said, it was ultimately Jacob's impressive execution that brought the iconic monster to life. "I told him, 'Look, it's like when a priest is getting dressed, there are many layers to the robes and the ceremonial guard. You have to think, this is your Ceremonial Guard. You're invoking the Creature,'" Guillermo added. "And the result is heartbreaking and beautiful. It’s a really naked performance—emotionally so close to innocence that it breaks your heart."
