Jacob Elordi had greater than a lick of curiosity when he first noticed the notorious “Saltburn” bathtub scene within the script.
In an interview with Stream Wars launched late December, the actor opened up in regards to the extraordinarily NSFW scene the place his character, a rich University of Oxford pupil named Felix, masturbates in a bath earlier than his peer, Oliver (performed by Barry Keoghan), enters the bathtub to lick the water.
“I was just really excited when I read that scene because you don’t really see things like that in mainstream movies a lot of the time,” Elordi mentioned.
“So it’s just great that [writer and director] Emerald [Fennell] was allowed to push those boundaries and expose people like that.”
Earlier within the interview, Elordi additionally described a crowd’s response to the movie when he caught a screening in Brisbane, Australia.
“It was unbelievable because everybody was engaged and sort of gasping at the screen and yelling at the screen and everything like that,” the actor mentioned.
“And I haven’t been in a movie like that in a really, really long time.”
Although the scene might have stunned audiences (and even impressed some to create “bathtub” cocktails and “bathwater” candles), “Saltburn” producer Margot Robbie informed Variety it “didn’t feel that shocking” within the script, crediting Fennell for immersing folks “into a world so quickly.”
“She’s so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly — you’re just immediately like, ‘I’m in this world,’” Robbie mentioned.
The “Barbie” actor additionally mentioned that there’s “something intentionally disgusting and satisfying” in regards to the film.
“Like, I think she wanted you to be equally as disgusted as you are titillated, and equally as shocked as you are by finding that depravity in yourself,” Robbie mentioned.
“She gets in your brain and she kind of taps into the most depraved parts of it, so that you’re complicit in the story,” she continued. “That’s the watercooler moment — the thing that people are talking about two weeks afterwards.”
