Jacob Elordi‘s mom must really love him.
The star recently attended the Los Angeles premiere of his new film Wuthering Heights, and in video footage captured by Bustle he seemed to take his gum out of his mouth and hand it to her, with her clasping it in her palm as he turned to pose for photos.
In a perfect twist, Bustle‘s Instagram post caught the attention of another notable gum-ditcher: Adrien Brody, who memorably tossed a wad of gum to his partner, Georgina Chapman, before running on stage to accept his Best Actor award for The Brutalist at the 2025 Oscars.
“Relatable,” Brody commented on the post.
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Though Brody received some criticism for his surprising mishap, Chapman insisted that it was her idea for the actor to chuck his gum before his speech. “I asked him to do it,” she told Page Six after the incident. “I saw him standing there. I could see that moment of panic on his face. He was really like, ‘Wow, I shouldn’t be having gum.'”
Brody also reflected on the gum toss in an interview with Live With Kelly & Mark shortly after the Oscars. “I forgot I was chewing gum, and I can’t [chew gum in a] thank-you speech,” he said, noting that he should have considered swallowing it. “I could’ve! I didn’t think about that. [I just thought], ‘I’ve got to get rid of this somehow!'”
Elordi may have the opportunity to hand his gum off again from the same spot Brody did, given that he recently received his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the Creature in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. But Elordi faces stiff competition: He’s up against previous Oscar winners Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro for their roles in One Battle After Another, first-time nominee Delroy Lindo for Sinners, and first-time nominee Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value.
Elordi discussed the process of crafting his Frankenstein character during a conversation with Entertainment Weekly in November. “Between hearing about the project and talking to Guillermo, from that point to the end of the thing, I’d filled this, like, tome, I suppose, this kind of giant diary, which was completely from the perspective of the Creature,” he recalled. “And when I saw the end result, it felt like it had come out of a fugue state. So I had this kind of giant bible that was his, I guess, the whole time I was shooting, and I filled the last page on the last day of shooting.”
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Elordi also revealed his inspiration for his turn as the Creature. “Guillermo and I watched a lot of silent movies, ’cause they have a real subtlety to the largeness of their expression that sort of acutely conveys the exact point,” he said. “It can seem melodramatic, but when you watch them, when you really analyze them, they’re so succinct and tight, those performances. So there was definitely something in that.”