Jacob Elordi Addresses Audience Reactions To Saltburn's Bathtub Scene - Screen Rant

Summary

• Jacob Elordi celebrates the passionate and engaged responses to Saltburn, including the film's gross-out bathtub scene, and praises writer/ director Emerald Fennell's bold vision.
• The actor reveals that he saw the film in a theater in Australia, revealing that audiences were "gasping at the screen and yelling".
• While Saltburn's reviews have been mostly positive, some have criticized the film for relying too heavily on shock value with a somewhat hollow story.

Saltburn star Jacob Elordi shares his thoughts on the strong reactions to the film's most shocking scene. Serving as writer/ director Emerald Fennell's follow-up to Promising Young Woman, Saltburn stars Elordi as Felix, who invites fellow student Oliver, played by Barry Keoghan, to his family's estate for the summer. The film, which has proven somewhat divisive, includes one particularly gross scene depicting Oliver drinking Felix's bathwater after the latter character ejaculates into it.

During a recent interview with Stream Wars, Elordi comments on the strong reactions to Saltburn's twisted moments, including the bathtub scene.

Although the actor doesn't touch on the more negative reactions to the film, he celebrates the fact that it's generated such passionate responses. Check out Elordi's full comment below:

"I haven't really heard too many because I try to hide away from it. But I went to a screening of the picture in Brisbane when it sort of first played and it was unbelievable because everybody was engaged and sort of gasping at the screen and yelling at the screen and everything like that. And I haven't been in a movie like that in a really, really long time. So, I haven't heard any of the really—I mean, I hope there's no terrible stories, but yeah."

"I was just really excited when I read that scene, because you don't really see things like that in sort of mainstream movies a lot of the time, so it's just great that [Emerald Fennell] was allowed to kind of push those boundaries and expose people like that."

How Has Saltburn Been Received?

Generally speaking, the Saltburn critics' reviews have been mostly positive. The film currently holds a respectable 71% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with an audience score actually exceeding that at 79%. These scores still, however, fall short of those for Promising Young Woman, which not only scored 90% and 87% with critics and audiences, respectively, but was also nominated for five Oscars, ultimately taking home the award for Best Original Screenplay.

Saltburn made only $19.4 million at the box office during its theatrical run. Commercial performance, however, isn't a strong indication of audience reception since the movie hit Prime Video only two weeks after its theatrical release.

Despite the generally positive reviews, however, there's no question that Saltburn is not a movie for everybody. Shocking scenes like the bathwater-slurp and another involving a grave site may understandably prove too graphic for some viewers. Even though the Saltburn cast comprises a group of immensely talented actors and Fennell paints with a bold, compelling brush stylistically, there have been other criticisms of the film as well.

A key point of contention seems to be just what the film is actually about, and how much substance lies beneath the impressive production design, raunchiness, and flair. Some reviews question why Saltburn is set in 2006 when it has almost no bearing on the story, while others argue that the movie seems to have nothing to say about class or the perversion of wealth, two themes it seems interested in exploring. While Saltburn has proven divisive, it seems like Elordi, for his part, is thrilled that the film is provoking a response from people.

Source: Stream Wars

Saltburn

Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, Saltburn is a 2023 comedy-thriller film. When Oxford student Oliver Quick is invited to his friend Felix's family's wealthy estate, Saltburn, for a summer vacation, he is drawn into the world of eccentric characters and increasingly chaotic events as his obsession with Felix comes to a head.

Release Date

November 17, 2023

Director

Emerald Fennell

Runtime

131 Minutes

Writers

Emerald Fennell

Studio(s)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , MRC , LuckyChap Entertainment , Lie Still

Distributor(s)

Amazon MGM Studios

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