Jacob Elordi, 28, is everywhere right now — he’s just not on social media.
From “Euphoria” to “Saltburn” and “Priscilla,” to Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” last year and “Wuthering Heights,” released last week, Elordi has cemented his place as one of Hollywood’s most in-demand young actors.
But in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he made it clear that he has no interest in putting his private life online.
“I have no relationship with social media,” Elordi told CBS correspondent Tracy Smith.
“My dream was to be an actor. My dream was to play in the movies and, you know, I’m far too nervous to ask for more than that. I’ve been given exactly what I wanted, and I see it exactly how I dreamed it, and I live it how I dreamed it. So for me, that’s about all I can handle,” Elordi said.
Though the Australian actor has had an Instagram account in the past, he’s known to deactivate it often. His account has been deactivated since late 2024.
For Elordi, staying offline is a way to keep Hollywood from taking over his entire identity. Despite his rising profile — he’s TK he says that the boundary allows him to move through his private life mostly unbothered.
“I have a pretty strong refusal to lose my life to an industry, you know. I consider myself an actor and just an actor. And so for me, life kind of goes on outside the set, and outside of these lights and cameras and things,” he said. “I don’t have too much trouble in the world.”
Even with cameras around, Elordi says being a Hollywood star barely registers in his daily life.
“It doesn’t really factor into my reality, you know,” Elordi said. “I have so much love in my life, and the relationships I have in my life are so present and real. I was raised in such a sort of authentic and true way.”
“I feel so deeply here that, I don’t know, the idea of this industry and stuff — it doesn’t really factor into my day-to-day,” he said.
This isn’t the first time Elordi has spoken about social media and fame. In 2022, he said he woke up to 4 million new Instagram followers after his breakout role in Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth,” and the sudden public attention made him consider quitting acting.
“I hated being a character to the public. I felt so far from myself,” Elordi told GQ.
Elordi isn’t the only Gen Z actor to have spoken about staying offline.
In 2025, Mia Threapleton said her mother, Kate Winslet, encouraged her to make a list of pros and cons for joining Instagram when she was 14.
“The cons completely outweighed the pros for me. That was quite a clarifying moment. Since then, the more time I spend in this world, the more I’m really happy that I don’t have it,” Threapleton said.
It’s not just a Hollywood thing, either. Plenty of Gen Zers are deciding they’re better off offline.
They’re trading smartphones for dumb phones, turning cellphones into makeshift landlines, and throwing anti-social media parties where no one’s allowed to scroll.
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