Saltburn spoilers follow.
Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has recalled his reaction to the movie's notorious bathtub scene.
The actor stars as Felix Catton in the film, who befriends loner Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) during his first term at Oxford University, inviting Oliver to spend some time with him at his family's sprawling estate during the term break.
In one much-talked-about scene, Quirk enters Felix's bathroom after his friend has taken and masturbated in a bath, proceeding to slurp the remnants of the bath water.
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In an interview with Stream Wars, Elordi shared his thoughts on the controversial scene, praising the film's director Emerald Fennell for the idea.
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"I was just really excited when I read that scene, because... you don't really see things like that in sort of mainstream movies... a lot of the time," he says. "So it's just great that [Fennell] was allowed to kind of push those boundaries and expose people like that."
The Euphoria star went on to admit he's been mostly avoiding other people's reactions to the film, but did get a sense of viewers' opinions of the bathtub scene in a movie screening in his native Australia.
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"I haven't really heard too many because I try to hide away from it," he says. "But I went to a screening of the picture in Brisbane when it sort of first played and it was unbelievable because everybody was engaged and sort of gasping at the screen and yelling at the screen and everything like that.
"And I haven't been in a movie like that in a really really long time. So, I haven't heard any of the really — I mean, I hope there's no terrible stories, but yeah."
Saltburn earned a 71% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics, with the film proving more popular with viewers, currently bearing a 79% audience score on the movie rating site.
Saltburn is now available to stream on Prime Video.
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