Out on the wily, windy moors—or, just the snowy Berlinale International Film Festival—Jacob Elordi has debuted another hair transformation. Gone is the impressively bushy beard that the Saltburn actor sported at the Marrakech International Film Festival in Morocco back in December: now, it’s all about the 17th century mutton chops.
Elordi was in Berlin to debut The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a forthcoming piece of prestige television in which he plays Dorrigo, an Australian medical officer who becomes a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. Amid the harrowing experiences, he casts his mind back to a passionate affair with his uncle’s younger wife, Amy—played by Odessa Young. Already, Elordi is being lauded for a verve-filled performance.
But much of the chatter was also about his new look: Elordi showcased a serious set of sideburns, likely grown for his next part as the brooding anti-hero Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation. His mutton chops reach down to the curve of his jaw, and the rest of his dark hair is kept long and tousled. It’s surprising that this is even Elordi’s first try at the hairy sideboards, given his previous role as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
Maybe almost as controversial as this new beauty look, too, was what Elordi wore on his feet at the daytime photocall: a pair of chunky Margiela County Tabis.
Heathcliff has been played in past adaptations by the likes of Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes, and Tom Hardy. While 1939’s black-and-white classic saw Olivier in similar hairy face-framers, Fiennes and Hardy instead opted for flowing, shoulder-length hair for their own turns as the complicated Heathcliff.
The first image (Whose finger is that?) from Wuthering Heights was revealed earlier this week. Set for release on Valentine’s Day in 2026, Fennell adapts Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name. Looking to her Saltburn collaborator Elordi as Heathcliff, another Australian, Margot Robbie, will also play Catherine Earnshaw. (She’s also producing via her own company.) The cast also features Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver.
As production reportedly continues, Jacob Elordi looks every bit of the Yorkshire Moors man.
