How to Get Jacob Elordi’s Mutton Chop Sideburns, According to a Barber
Published: 28 Feb 2025
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Made famous by Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, Australian actor Jacob Elordi’s facial hair is shape-shifting again to match his role as the tortured antihero in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the famous novel. Debuting his new look on the red carpet at the BAFTAs, Jacob Elordi is officially rocking sideburns or mutton chops, face fins, side rugs, cheek streaks, burnies, and whatever else you want to call the infamous facial hair style.
Elordi will play Heathcliff in the adaptation, while Margot Robbie will play female protagonist Catherine Earnshaw. Together they will bring back some of the era-specific fashion choices of the novel. Expect plenty of Romantic and Regency-era styles, meaning bonnets, ribbons, greatcoats and trenchcoats will make a resurgence alongside riding boots and cloaks, lace, high collars, gloves, and waist-dressed. Of course, we can’t forget sideburns.
If you’re tempted by this statement-making, rough, and windswept look there are a few key tips that we want to share. We’ve spoken with Mark Rabone, the owner of one of Brisbane’s best barber shops Esquire Male Grooming and international all-star educator for American Crew about Elordi’s new chops.
What stood out the most about Jacob Elordi’s sideburns is how they connect to past style movements, and Rabone says that this is typical when playing a character for a new movie. “The connection comes from recycling and rebooting of styles. Facial hair is always an important part of fashion and style and as long as it’s paired with the right haircut can be a very effective and bold statement,” he said.
“For me, they are reminiscent of the 70s. A full mutton chop screams a bit of psychedelia to me!”
Next, we had to know what face shape this beard would suit in the modern era, as it’s certainly a strong statement. Rabone says that they suit a range of face styles, whether short, medium or long.
“Sideburns are a great way to frame the face whether they are short, medium or long! However, they should always be even from the front, that is the key!”
It’s still early days, so we’re not willing to call this a trend and neither is Rabone. “We’ve always had services for facial hair in my stores for 20 years, whether it’s been full beards, goatees, line ups or sideburns. They are often seen as a way to be individual, it’s very much a personal taste thing.”
“It’s interesting how the length of a sideburn can dictate your look, and that’s what it’s all about. Essentially, if someone chooses to grow their sideburns out to full mutton chops, for example, it’s generally part of their look, and I fully encourage it.”
Now, if you’re thinking it’s the time to put the chops on, Rabone says that this beard style would suit an independent person, and maybe someone that’s into music. “Sideburns for me project a personality that is a little bit different and independent. I imagine the owner loves their music – which is a great thing.”
Whether Elordi’s new Wuthering Heights look will stick is still open for discussion. However, we’ll have until Warner Bros. releases the film from MRC on February 13th, 2026.
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How characters from ‘On Swift Horses’ movie have roots in Topeka area
An April 25 theatrical release date has been set for “On Swift Horses,” a film adapted from the novel of that name by Shawnee County native Shannon Pufahl, the filmmakers announced earlier this month.
Details aren’t yet available on how or when people in Topeka might be able to see the film, for which two of the producers are Academy Award winners.
“On Swift Horses” premiered last September at the Toronto Film Festival and is scheduled to be the closing night film next month at the annual SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas.
The movie is “very faithful” to the book, Pufahl told The Capital-Journal last September.
Published in 2019, “On Swift Horses” was her debut novel for Pufahl, a 1997 graduate of Shawnee Heights High School who teaches creative writing at Stanford University and has a doctorate from the University of California, Davis.
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A historical fiction novel with LGBTQ+ themes, “On Swift Horses” takes place in 1956 and 1957. Three of the main characters grew up in Kansas.
Pufahl dedicated the novel to her strong-willed, risk-taking grandmother, the late Topekan Dorthy Figgs. upon whom she modeled one of those characters, a Marshall County native named “Muriel.”
A native of Berryton in southeast Shawnee County, Pufahl recalled last year how, beginning in the 1990s, she often accompanied Figgs and other members of their family on gambling trips to Las Vegas.
“I was probably in Las Vegas 20 times before I was old enough to gamble,” she said.
Actors featured in the film include Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, Sasha Calle and Don Swayze, brother of the late actor Patrick Swayze.
Ley Line Entertainment, FirstGen Content and Cor Cordium created the film. Its producers include Peter Spears and Mollye Asher, who were among producers of “Nomadland,” which won the 2020 Academy Award for Best Picture.
The film’s director is Daniel Minihan, who created and directed Netflix’s limited series “Halston,” and has directed episodes of HBO series that include “Game of Thrones,” “Deadwood” and “Six Feet Under.”
Bryce Kass adapted the script for the film from Pufahl’s novel.
Pufahl said she visited a set for the film that portrayed a 1950s casino in Las Vegas, where part of Pufahl’s novel takes place.
“The level of detail was amazing — down to ashtrays they had made with the vintage casino logos to the rented vintage slot machines,” she said. “Plus all the extras in period clothes and hairstyles.”
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Steamy Trailer Released For New Queer Erotic Drama Starring Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi
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The steamy trailer for the new queer erotic drama On Swift Horses, starring Australian actor Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), has been released.
Based on Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 book of the same name, On Swift Horses was directed by queer filmmaker Daniel Minahan (Fellow Travelers) and written by Bryce Kass (Lizzie).
On Swift Horses also stars Daisy Edgar Jones (Twisters), Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Diego Calva (Babylon), and Sasha Calle (The Flash).
According to the official synopsis, “Muriel [Edgar Jones] and her husband Lee [Poulter] are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius [Elordi], a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms.
“When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he’s fallen for [Calva], Muriel’s longing for something more propels her into a secret life of her own, gambling on racehorses and exploring a love she never dreamed possible.”
In an interview with Variety, Calva, who plays Julius’s love interest Henry, teased “pretty hot scenes” in On Swift Horses.
Speaking about the “steamy sexual chemistry” between the two characters Elordi shared, in a September 2024 Vanity Fair interview, “We had a week of intensive [prep] in the motel room, and [Minahan] gave us a lot of freedom to run around and to play and to find that love within those four walls.”
He described the movie as “a sprawling, epic, nongeneric love story—and I think that theme is entirely universal for every single person on the planet.”
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In the same interview Edgar-Jones shared that, “This story is wonderfully queer.”
She continued, “[Minahan] was really helpful in guiding that and making sure that we were also being authentic to that period and that experience.”
On Swift Horses premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2024. It is set to be released in select theatres on April 25.
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