Jacob Elordi is set to play lead role in action thriller Parallel

Jacob Elordi is set to play the lead role in the action thriller Parallel.

The Brisbane, Australia native, 23, will star in the Legendary Entertainment film, which is directed by Tom Green and written by Steve Lightfoot, Deadline was first to report on Monday.

According to the outlet, the motion picture spans through a gauntlet of parallel – and illegal – interpretations of reality.

Elordi is best known for his roles as Nate Jacobs on HBO’s Euphoria; and as Noah Flynn in the Netflix rom-com series The Kissing Booth.

The surging actor’s also set to appear in next year’s Adrian Lyne thriller Deep Water, which stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.

Elordi, who is dating Cindy Crawford’s model daughter Kaia Gerber, earlier this year spoke with W Magazine about his career and background as a performer.

‘I think subconsciously, my whole life I wanted to be an actor, because I demanded all the attention from my parents and friends and people around me,’ he said. ‘Probably from when I was 12, I started doing musical theater. I did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Seussical.

‘From there I took drama classes. And then from about 15, there was not much else for me to do.’

He opened up about the process of getting his breakout role on Euphoria.

‘The casting process was so much fun,’ he said. ‘It was so standard, and I hadn’t had a movie come out. I was just trying to be a working actor and just went in. Call back. Call back. And then next thing I know, we were making the show.’

He described his character as ‘really just a macho college a**hole,’ adding, ‘He was abusive and drinking and yelling at people and throwing his chest around. I had no idea of the scope or the depth that was to come.

‘He’s an emotional terrorist, a narcissist, a sociopath, a freak. All those things.’