The Cannes Film Festival was about to feature a 6-foot-5 movie star on the competition’s jury.
Jacob Elordi, who has been busy with back-to-back projects as Guillermo del Toro FrankensteinEmerald Fennel Wuthering Heights And the new season by Sam Levinson trancewas confirmed for a place on the jury under President Park Chan-wook. But the actor broke his foot, making the appointment nearly impossible due to the physical demands of being wheeled up and down the mansion’s steps and shuttling back and forth to performances and jury commitments.
News of Elordi’s foot injury was first reported by Page six. Hollywood Reporter The infection was confirmed through a source. The actor’s rep did not return a request for comment.
However, this is not his first physical challenge. during Hollywood Reporter Round Table actor Elordi has confirmed that a back injury halted his rugby career and began his transition into acting. Then, while filming Wuthering Heights, he ended up in the hospital with second-degree burns due to a shower accident.
“The whole story is that when I was doing it Frankenstein“I had a lot of makeup on my fingers and toes the whole time, and I left it on throughout the shoot because I couldn’t be bothered to wash it all off,” he said. Respected. “As Heathcliff[in[inWuthering Heights]I was covered in scabs and dirt, and I thought, “I’m never going to do that again, I’m going to clean my feet properly every night and come back to work refreshed the next day.” So I went to scrub my feet, leaned back and burned my back on the steam handle, and stood up screaming; I tore my back. “When I went to work on Monday, I suffered second-degree burns.”
As previously announced, the South Korean director will serve as jury president alongside Demi Moore, who received a boost from the Cannes premiere of Coralie Farget’s film. Article; Ruth nigga who Loving It was first shown in competition in 2016; French star and perennial Cannes star Isaac de Bancoli; Stellan Skarsgard, who returns to the Croisette after Joachim Trier’s win last year Emotional value; Hamnet Director Chloe Zhao, who made her debut in 2015, Songs my brothers taught mescreened at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes; Chilean director Diego Cespedes, who was making his directorial debut The mysterious look of a flamingo Last year he won the Un Certain Regard award; Belgian director Laura Wandel, winner of the Un Certain Regard award for her film stadium; and Scottish screenwriter Paul Lafferty, a long-time collaborator with Ken Loach who wrote two Palme d’Or winners (The wind that shakes the barley and I’m Danielle Blake).
The nine-member jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 competing films at a ceremony held on May 23. The 79th session of the Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 12 to 23.
