Jacob Elordi may now be a Hollywood heavyweight, but his former drama teacher has revealed how the Australian actor has given back to his old school. Alison Kilgour, head of arts at St Joseph’s Nudgee College in Brisbane, told Metro that Elordi returned to the school in 2021 to run workshops with drama students.
“It was around the time of The Kissing Booth, and he got to escape to Australia a bit more, so I reached out,” Kilgour said. “He was beautiful and would come and work with these boys who idolised him.” Elordi attended the school for his final two years before moving to Los Angeles at age 19.
Kilgour, a close friend of Elordi’s mother Melissa, also recalled watching Saltburn with the actor and his family. “That was pretty funny as I went with the family and he was here and was sitting behind me. There was this laughter that happened and it took me right back to the classroom,” she said.
Elordi, 28, rose to fame in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth before starring in Euphoria and films like Elvis, Saltburn, and Frankenstein. He earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for the latter. Kilgour said she was “astounded” by his success, adding: “What astounds me the most is he walked out of our gates 10 years ago last year and to get to where he has just blows my mind.”
She described Elordi as a devoted student who always carried a journal and had an “undying passion to perform.” “I don’t think anything was ever going to stop him,” she said.
