In a new conversation for VARIETY’s “Actors on Actors” issue, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jacob Elordi discuss FRANKENSTEIN, MARTY SUPREME, Timothée Chalamet, how movies have changed since the 90s, and more.
Paltrow and Elordi on his performance in “Frankenstein”:
Paltrow: You are so fantastic in “Frankenstein.” I was so impressed by your physicality — it was almost like watching a ballet dancer, how you emerged into this creature. This dynamic between incredible tenderness and violence. I was really impressed.
Elordi: Thank you. My sister is a ballet dancer, so I’ve grown up around that kind of movement. It was a reference point for how to use my body. I’d dreamed of working with Guillermo del Toro since I saw “Pan’s Labyrinth” as a kid. Later, I was shooting this movie “Priscilla,” where I play Elvis Presley, so I had a kind of unnatural pluck and confidence. The hair and makeup team told me they were going to do “Frankenstein” next, and I remember I said, “I’m supposed to be in that movie.”
They asked if I was serious, because they already had a different actor. I laughed it off as a joke, and then a year later the actor dropped out. The hair person went to Guillermo and said, “I don’t know if you know who this is, but maybe you should think about it.”
Paltrow and Elordi on “Marty Supreme” and Timothée Chalamet:
Elordi: Timothée is incredible in “Marty Supreme.” He’s brilliant. He’s genuinely unbelievable. And there’s the final frame of him is one of the more devastating things. You’ve worked with some of the greatest male movie stars in the history of cinema. How has that experience working with someone that is sort of the age of these guys that you worked with in the ‘90s?
Paltrow: It was great. I wasn’t so familiar with his work either, so I did a little bit of a deep dive. He absolutely blew me away. The bravery around playing somebody with no moral center. Most times when an actor plays someone unlikeable, you can see them couching [it] — but he just drives through it. He’s just a dick.
Elordi: He makes me feel good about the state of things. If people keep putting care into movies in each generation, you can keep them alive.
Paltrow and Elordi on how movies have changed since the 90s:
Elordi: My great fear is that movies lose their currency, and we don’t have that form of storytelling anymore.
Paltrow: It’s changed quite a bit, and the business models have changed and the way it’s all commercialized. Does that feel specifically different [to you]?
Elodri: It feels very different. I feel like we grew up looking at your generation of actors and devoured all of your movies and that was the dream. Those were the movies we wanted to make. Then, I feel like we all kind of finally got an audition, booked the thing and stepped out into Hollywood and it’s like …
Paltrow: Where did they all go? But I feel something like [“Marty Supreme”] happens in the face of hyper-commercialization, that you start to have real artists coming and punching through.
[Photo Credit: Alexi Lubomirski for Variety – Video Credit: Variety/YouTube]
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