Jacob Elordi In Saltburn
It is the year for queer movies, with a slew of movies including Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn’s release being right around the corner. The first look images for the movie have just been dropped in collaboration with Vanity Fair, and people could not be more excited. Starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, the movie will explore sexuality, class and chaos. Fennell’s last film Promising Young Woman starring Carey Mulligan won her the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
What Is Saltburn About?
The IMDb synopsis for the film reads, “A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.” Fennell spoke of Oliver’s descendance into his carnal desires,
“For that completely overwhelming carnal desire to take hold, there has to be an element of revulsion, there has to be an element of transgression. My favorite thing in general is sympathy for the devil. The sorts of people that we can’t stand, the sorts of people who are abhorrent — if we can love them, if we can fall in love with these people, if we can understand why this is so alluring, in spite of its palpable cruelty and unfairness and sort of strangeness, if we all want to be there too, I think that’s just such an interesting dynamic.”
Cast of Saltburn
While Saltburn reunites Fennell with Carey Mulligan, the movie is also set to star Rosamund Pike in an important roles. Fennell also cast Keoghan because she had had his eye on him ever since he had starred in The Killing of A Sacred Deer. Fennell said about working with Keoghan,
“I just thought, ‘That’s a once-in-a-lifetime performer. There’s no equivalent. He’s just so compelling. He’s got a kind of sex appeal and a vulnerability and a physical presence and a sort of darkness, or he can at least communicate these things in a way that is very rare.”
Pike also has some of the most iconic lines in the film, apparently. The actress has “some of the film’s most delicious and often comedic lines of dialogue.” Check out some of the first look images below above.
Saltburn premieres at BFI on October 4. Following a limited theatrical release on 24 November in the US, the film will expand to global theatres on the 1st of December.
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