2023 GQ Men of the Year cover star Jacob Elordi expresses his love for his favorite things in the world—including Brisbane, David Bowie, spiny lizards and Les Murray poetry.
Director: Robby Miller
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Robby Massey
Producer: Camille Ramos
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Associate Producer: Chris Sechler
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Talent Booker: Ernesto Macias
Camera Operator: Mar
Gaffer: Niklas Moller
Sound Mixer: Phillip Kim
Production Assistant: Lyla Neely
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Rob Lombardi
Supervising Editor: Ian Bryant
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Special Thanks: Set furniture generously provided by CB2.
Director: Robby Miller
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Robby Massey
Producer: Camille Ramos
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Associate Producer: Chris Sechler
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones
Talent Booker: Ernesto Macias
Camera Operator: Mar
Gaffer: Niklas Moller
Sound Mixer: Phillip Kim
Production Assistant: Lyla Neely
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Rob Lombardi
Supervising Editor: Ian Bryant
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Special Thanks: Set furniture generously provided by CB2.
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00:00 [upbeat music]
00:02 Hi, I'm Jacob Elordi,
00:06 and these are some of my favorite things in life.
00:10 Oh, okay, yes.
00:15 Favorite things about Australia.
00:17 Where I'm from, which is Brisbane.
00:21 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
00:22 I was born and raised there.
00:23 There's something about the houses,
00:25 like the style of a house that's called a Queenslander,
00:27 and it has like an airway underneath it.
00:29 And you live upstairs.
00:31 There's like an inherent nostalgia, I guess, attached to it.
00:34 And it's not like anywhere I've ever been
00:36 in the world before.
00:37 So sometimes if I need inspiration or something,
00:40 sometimes going home to where I grew up is helpful for that.
00:43 You know, it's probably because I was raised there.
00:45 Probably has something to do with that.
00:47 It's kind of this unspoken thing when you're from there.
00:50 It has like a spirit that you can't really articulate
00:53 or put into pictures or sounds or words.
00:55 It's just a feeling.
00:56 And I'm sure everyone has that, you know,
00:58 with the place that they were born and grew up in.
00:59 There's like a lust for childhood or something.
01:02 Like you're always trying to get those days back.
01:04 The next one is music.
01:06 I have this like thing about things
01:09 that are overrated, underrated.
01:12 The Ziggy Stardust album by David Bowie
01:14 is overrated, underrated in my opinion.
01:16 And just recently I've been listening to that album
01:19 kind of in everything I do,
01:20 particularly this song called "Five Years."
01:23 I love the way it sounds and I love the way it feels.
01:26 And then I kind of get more into David Bowie
01:27 and I just, you can kind of,
01:29 because he's such a trendsetter and like a world shaker
01:32 and he had so much to say,
01:34 he can become this like great big thing, you know,
01:38 and you don't really look at the nuance of him.
01:40 But I mean, that guy's a genius.
01:42 The next, which is a constant through sort of
01:45 my whole life, and it started with the song "Perth,"
01:49 is Bon Iver.
01:50 And you can kind of read that.
01:52 There's like discussions around his music
01:53 and comment threads.
01:54 And it's almost like the sounds he makes
01:57 create this feeling that you can't articulate or express,
02:01 but everybody knows that feeling somewhere,
02:04 somewhere in their gut or in the fiber of their being.
02:07 Everyone on the planet, I really do think so.
02:09 Whether it's like a whale or a screech
02:11 or the depth that he takes his voice
02:14 or an electronic sound, it's packed with so much meaning.
02:17 And that is always, always inspiring to me.
02:20 In the same vein is "Fred Again."
02:23 It's the same kind of thing with the sounds,
02:25 the snippets of voices and passages that he chooses.
02:27 The words are ultra simple, but they mean so much.
02:31 How to say as much as you can
02:32 in the simplest, most accessible way.
02:35 And that's something that's always interesting to me.
02:38 And then "The National" is also in that same world
02:42 of feeling and simplicity, simplicity of expression.
02:47 You know, this like, you know, we're all here thing,
02:49 and we're all having a go at it
02:51 and all kind of doing the best and the worst that we can.
02:54 And then on top of that, there's a movie,
02:56 "Come On, Come On," the Mike Mills film,
02:58 they all kind of link up, you know, in a way.
03:00 And that sounds super obnoxious with my legs crossed
03:02 in a turtle neck.
03:04 But yeah, music.
03:06 Animals.
03:09 I mean, some of this stuff is so self-explanatory.
03:11 I really love animals.
03:13 My dog is my best friend in the whole world.
03:15 I love that dog.
03:16 My dog will smile at me when she is happy
03:19 and frown when I leave.
03:21 And that kind of relationship
03:23 with something that kind of looks like a Disney character
03:26 is pretty, pretty fantastic.
03:29 I quite like seals.
03:30 Yeah, my dog looks like a seal when she swims.
03:32 They do make me laugh.
03:34 - Do you have any particular favorite animal
03:35 that is native to Australia?
03:38 - Yeah.
03:39 What do you call it?
03:41 Oh, the thorny devil.
03:43 It's a small lizard, and it's covered in thorns,
03:46 like spikes.
03:47 Thorny devil, I like those.
03:50 I got together some poems that I really like.
03:53 The first poem is by Philip Larkin.
03:56 It's called "Home is So Sad."
03:58 I think it's probably because of that simplicity
04:01 and feeling in the mundane kind of thing
04:04 before the music.
04:05 I think it's gonna be different
04:06 to every person that reads it.
04:09 I think it encourages reflection
04:12 and any kind of retrospect on childhood lost,
04:16 or not lost, but sort of spent, rather.
04:18 The last "Hellos" is by Les Murray.
04:22 That's another poem that I really like.
04:23 It's ultra Australian,
04:25 and Les Murray has a way of capturing,
04:28 I think, this kind of blue-collar experience,
04:30 which is somewhat similar to my own.
04:32 And this one is about a father dying.
04:36 He's responding to his family members and children,
04:40 saying to him, "Don't die yet."
04:42 And he's like, "No, no, I'm too busy dying to die."
04:45 This line.
04:46 "On the second day, you're busting to talk,
04:49 but I'm too busy dying.
04:50 Grief ended when he died.
04:51 The widower, like soldiers
04:53 who won't live life their mates missed."
04:56 I really like that, and I'm not too sure why.
04:59 So don't ask.
05:00 Oh, this poem is by Arthur Rimbaugh,
05:03 and it's called "Dance of the Hanged Men."
05:05 And it's just kind of a really fun, devilish kind of poem.
05:10 And I really only like it
05:13 because there's a line that says,
05:15 "The devil's paladins, the skeletons of Saladins."
05:19 That kind of reminds me of the introduction to "Aladdin."
05:22 You know that song that plays
05:24 when the merchant is moving through?
05:25 "The skeletons of Saladin."
05:27 It's kind of, you know, there's like a trance to it.
05:30 "The paladins are dancing, dancing.
05:32 The lean, the devil's paladins,
05:34 the skeletons of Saladins."
05:36 Like, that sounds really cool when you say it out loud.
05:41 Yeah, so I like those.
05:42 (upbeat music)
05:45 Thank you very much for listening to me
05:47 talk about things that I like.
05:49 I do appreciate it.
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