{"id":396772,"date":"2026-04-17T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:35:09","slug":"jacob-elordis-acting-abilities-questioned-by-oscar-winning-director-pedro-almodovar-jacob-elordi-pedro-almodovar-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396772\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi\u2019s Acting Abilities Questioned by Oscar-Winning Director Pedro Almodovar | Jacob Elordi, Pedro Almodovar | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jacob-elordi\/\" title=\"Jacob Elordi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a> may have an Oscar nomination to his name, but his acting abilities are still being questioned by powerful people in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/pedro-almodovar\/\" title=\"Pedro Almodovar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Almodovar<\/a>, one of the most acclaimed directors alive right now, discussed his thoughts on Jacob in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p>Pedro won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999 for the movie All About My Mother and he won Best Original Screenplay in 2002 for his film Talk to Her. His other well known films include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, Pain and Glory, Parallel Mothers, and The Room Next Door. <\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on the La Pija y la Quinqui podcast, Pedro said, \u201cI can now see that Jacob Elordi\u2019s stardom is indeed real. I was still wondering whether he was a sex symbol or a respected actor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted in Spanish, but translated quotes were published by The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Almodovar also called Jacob\u2018s movie Wuthering Heights \u201cvery bad,\u201d but said he didn\u2019t think the film\u2019s faults were due to the actors. \u201cThey do what they can,\u201d he said about the stars. <\/p>\n<p>After saying that Jacob\u2018s work in Frankenstein was \u201ccomfortable,\u201d Almodovar added, \u201cWe still need to see him, at least I do, in another role that demands more from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/16\/jacob-elordi-navigates-a-post-apocalyptic-world-in-the-dog-stars-movie-watch-the-first-trailer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> trailer for Jacob\u2018s next big-screen movie<\/a> was just released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi may have an Oscar nomination to his name, but his acting abilities are still being questioned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-396772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}