Saltburn's Barry Keoghan jokes he owns 10 of Jacob Elordi's bath water candles
Saltburn spoilers follow.
Saltburn star Barry Keoghan has joked that he owns 10 bath water candles inspired by that scene in the movie.
The much-talked-about moment in the recent movie – which follows Keoghan's character Oliver as he goes to university friend Felix's (Jacob Elordi) family estate – sees Oliver slurp used bath water that Felix had masturbated in just moments before.
An unofficial candle inspired by the moment is now selling online (yep), influenced "by Jacob Elordi and what we imagine His Highness to smell like" (via Etsy). It even comes in vanilla bean, comfort spice and sea breeze flavours.
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Speaking to Variety, Keoghan quipped that he has jumped on the bandwagon, saying: “I already have 10 of them. They’re all burning at my house right now.”
One person who wasn't shocked by the scene was producer Margot Robbie, who told Variety recently: "It didn’t feel that shocking in the script, because [director] Emerald [Fennell] immerses you into a world so quickly.
"She’s so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly — you’re just immediately like, 'I’m in this world'.
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"So by the time you get to something like the bathtub scene, she’s primed you for it. She’s got you. You’re, like, picking at a scab. You’re like, 'I can’t help myself'. Or like popping a pimple: 'I know I shouldn’t squeeze but I’m gonna'."
She added: "I think there’s something intentionally disgusting and satisfying about where you get to in Saltburn.
"Like, I think [Emerald] wanted you to be equally as disgusted as you are titillated, and equally as shocked as you are by finding that depravity in yourself. She gets in your brain and she kind of taps into the most depraved parts of it, so that you’re complicit in the story."
Saltburn is now available on Prime Video.
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