Jacob Elordi Confronts Venice Official as He Poses for Photos with Fans

Jacob Elordi is here for the fans.

During the world premiere of his movie Frankenstein at the Venice International Film Festival on Saturday, Aug. 30, the 28-year-old actor was captured mingling with fans — and giving a biting remark to a festival official.

As seen in a video shared by TikTok user @mancrushdaily, Elordi told the festival employee, after seemingly assuring him everything was okay, “I’m gonna take a picture right here.”

Pen in hand for autographs, the Saltburn actor then added to the official right before posing with a fan, “Don’t ever tell me what to do.”

In their video caption, the TikTok user wrote that Elordi “was so nice” and “took [a] photo with everyone he [could]” during the event.

PEOPLE has reached out to Elordi’s rep for comment.

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Frankenstein is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic novel of the same name. It follows scientist Victor Frankenstein as he “brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation,” per a logline.

Oscar Isaac plays the role of Victor in the Guillermo del Toro film, with Elordi as the Creature. Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer and Lars Mikkelsen also star.

The movie received a 13-minute standing ovation at Venice, according to Variety, marking the longest applause of this year’s festival so far.

Elordi himself was moved to tears during the ovation. A video shared by Variety on X showed the actor embracing writer-director del Toro, 60, and costar Goth, 31, before looking out into the audience and bowing his head. 

During a press conference at the festival earlier that day, Elordi said that he fully immersed himself in the Creature, calling the role “a vessel that I could put every part of myself into.”

“From the moment that I was born to being here with you today, all of it is in that character,” he explained. “And in so many ways, the creature that’s on screen in this movie is the sort of purest form of myself. He’s more me than I am.”

Touching on his inspiration for making the movie, del Toro said during the press conference that he’d been “following the creature” since he was a kid, when he first saw Boris Karloff‘s portrayal of the monster in the 1931 film.

“I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world,” the director said, per Deadline.

The Venice International Film Festival runs through Saturday, Sept. 6, while Frankenstein is in theaters Oct. 17 and on Netflix Nov. 7.