Jacob Elordi hospitalized after freak Wuthering Heights accident

"She challenged me: 'If Daniel Day-Lewis was playing Heathcliff, he would have come in with scars,' recalled Elordi. 'I said, 'Well I'm going to go away and maim myself on the weekend to prove to you that I'm Heathcliff!' That night I went home, and the house I was staying in had a steam shower: a brass knob that steam came from out of the wall.'"

"As Heathcliff, I was covered in mange and dirt, and I thought, 'I'm not going to do that again, I'm going to clean my feet properly every night and come in to work fresh the next day.' So I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob and I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday I had a second-degree burn."

Jacob Elordi plays Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw. Make-up artist Siân Miller designed scars for Heathcliff and playfully suggested a method actor might provide his own wounds. Elordi vowed to prove his commitment and, while cleaning his feet in a house steam shower, leaned back and seared his back on a brass steam knob. The injury tore his skin and resulted in a second-degree burn that required hospital treatment. Fennell expressed shock upon learning that Elordi had been hospitalised.

Read at The Independent