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Liz Hobday

Narrow Road to red carpet for stars of wartime epic

Jacob Elordi stars in epic wartime miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Screen star Jacob Elordi is the man of the moment, walking the red carpet at the Australian premiere of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

From Saltburn to The Kissing Booth and Priscilla, 27-year-old Elordi now stars as the younger Dorrigo Evans in the five-part adaptation of the award-winning book by Richard Flanagan.

The story's protagonist is held captive in a Japanese PoW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway during World War II, remembering an affair with his uncle's young wife.

He is to become an admired surgeon and war hero - the older Dorrigo is played by Ciaran Hinds - but throughout his life, things are never what they seem on the outside.

Heather Mitchell
The Narrow Road to the Deep North features a large cast of Australians including Heather Mitchell. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North also features Australian actors Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Simon Baker, Essie Davis, Heather Mitchell and Thomas Weatherall.

More than a decade has passed since Flanagan's epic novel won the prestigious Man Booker Prize, with the author also an executive producer on the miniseries directed by fellow Tasmanian Justin Kurzel and written by Shaun Grant.

It was filmed in NSW, offering Elordi a rare chance to work in Australia.

He also stars as Frankenstein's creature in an upcoming feature from Guillermo del Toro and as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights for release in 2026.

The series will be released on April 18 on Prime Video.

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