Jacob Elordi just spilled some very interesting tea in an interview with Vanity Fair. Apparently in preparation for his latest film On Swift Horses, Elordi and Diego Calva spent some one-on-one time together in a motel room.

“We had a week of intensive [prep] in the motel room, and [director Daniel Minahan] gave us a lot of freedom to run around and to play and to find that love within those four walls,” Elordi said.

The film just premiered on September 7 at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. The Daniel Minahan-directed adaptation centers on a sweet and spicy queer romance between Elordi and Calva as 1950s lovers engaged in a taboo affair.

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The hotel room alone time makes sense for the plot. In Horses, Julius (Elordi) and Henry (Calva) post up in a motel room in Vegas, where they work together to catch card sharps in casinos. As time wears on, their relationship develops from a workplace friendship into a “steamy sexual chemistry that includes several rich, emotional, and explicit love scenes,” according to early reviews.

Elordi described the film as a “sprawling, epic, non-generic love story,” noting that the queer romance at its center is “entirely universal for every single person on the planet.”

A wider release for the film is anticipated in the near future.

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