Jacob Elordi’s First Screen Role Was as an Uncredited Redcoat in Pirates

Jacob Elordi’s rise has been rapid: from a heartthrob in The Kissing Booth to Euphoria and now a serious awards contender for Frankenstein. Less well known is that his first screen job was as an extra in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, where he didn’t even make the credits.

The fifth entry in the series brought Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow back into the mix as Henry Turner, the son of Will and Elizabeth, hunts him down. The franchise has long invested in real sets and large numbers of extras, and Dead Men Tell No Tales remained a costly production even if it wasn’t as expensive as earlier installments.

Elordi landed his redcoat role through an open call and later called the experience “one of the best things I’ve ever done in my entire life.” The moment he appears is early, during Sparrow’s escape from the British navy on Saint Martin, a sequence that echoes the chase that introduced Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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