In 2018, “The Kissing Booth” launched both Jacob Elordi and Joey King’s acting careers, but present-day Elordi is embarrassed about the teeny-bopper nature of the films. In 2023, he told GQ that the franchise was “ridiculous,” explaining, “I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies.”
King didn’t take these comments lightly. “I think it’s unfortunate anyone would feel that way,” she told Variety. “I had a great time making those movies no matter what anyone says.” It’s not her first time discrediting Elordi, either. When the “Euphoria” actor revealed in a 2020 Variety interview that he’d never seen the film’s sequel, King called him a liar. “Jacob watched it. He’s capping,” she posted in a since-deleted tweet.
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This deleted tweet led fans to believe they weren’t on good terms. However, King let people know that she hadn’t deleted her tweet because of any bad blood with Elordi during an interview on “The Howard Stern Show.” As she explained, she deleted the tweet because she realized she’d used appropriative language.
“‘Capping’ means lying,” she said. “I heard the term ‘capping’ on, like, TikTok and Twitter and Instagram, through friends, and I was like, ‘I guess this is the new thing.'” Apparently not, as the actor came to realize. “It’s something I should not have used as a white person,” she explained, telling Stern that Elordi actually knew about the tweet the whole time. “I did get [Jacob’s] permission to tweet it,” King added.
