When Saltburn was released in 2023, there was one moment that had everyone talking for weeks. The scene in which Barry Keoghan’s obsessive Oliver slurps up the bathwater that Jacob Elordi’s Felix had just pleasured himself in inspired countless shocked tweets , thinkpieces , and even its own scented candles . But to Elordi himself, the scandalized response was disappointing.

The actor reflected on all the pearl-clutching around that Saltburn scene in a Nov. 6 Entertainment Weekly interview . "I actually think it shows me just how, I guess, prudish we are," Elordi said. "When I watch that, I just think there's far more extreme things in cinema that I've seen, far more graphic."

He compared the audience’s over-the-top reaction to the scene to the violent gore in popular

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