On Swift Horses star Diego Calva on playing Jacob Elordi’s on-screen boyfriend and his mental health journey

Diego Calva (Image: Karla Lisker/Attitude)

“Being naked around Jacob Elordi is intimidating!” declares Diego Calva with an infectious giggle, describing his co-star in On Swift Horses. We get it: the pair spend much of this new 1950s-set romance rolling around in matching tighty-whities. “He’s like a fucking god!” Calva adds. “He’s too perfect!” Cue more infectious giggling. 

Coming from the beautiful with a capital ‘B’ man whose mesmeric face was the best thing about 2022’s Babylon, such modesty is a charming quality. (In a wild turn of events, I bump into Elordi in a London pub that very night, and the Euphoria star is naturally over the moon to learn his friend has landed an Attitude cover.) 

Calva then reveals how he bonded with Elordi. “He plays Pokémon. He was

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