{"id":52019,"date":"2025-09-09T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/52019\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T02:37:09","slug":"jacob-elordis-frankenstein-body-as-described-by-guillermo-del-toro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/52019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi’s ‘Frankenstein’ Body, as Described by Guillermo del Toro"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein hits theaters and Netflix later this year<\/a>, people will watch for all kinds of reasons. Fans of the genre will be excited to see del Toro\u2019s take on the classic tale<\/a>. Fans of del Toro\u2019s will want to see what he\u2019s brought to this story he\u2019s dreamed of making his entire life. And some, yes, will watch just to see Jacob Elordi<\/a> as an animated corpse.<\/p>\n

Trailers and clips released publicly for the film have yet to reveal in detail<\/a> what Elordi looks like as the creation of Dr. Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) but, speaking to Entertainment Weekly,<\/a> del Toro pulled the metaphorical robe off his monster. When asked to describe the look of the character, the Oscar-winning director said he\u2019s \u201cstaggeringly beautiful, in an otherworldly way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like a newborn, alabaster creature,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic.\u201d And, because the creature was created from the corpses of multiple people, del Toro explained that the skin is multiple colors.\u00a0\u201cThe hues are pale but almost translucent. It feels like a newborn soul,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Del Toro doesn\u2019t think people who watch the film will be scared of the look of the creature because the character of Dr. Frankenstein didn\u2019t design him that way. \u201cVictor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, and if he\u2019s been dreaming about this creature for all his life, he\u2019s going to nail it,\u201d del Toro said. Both Frankenstein and del Toro are similar in that way. What they \u201cdidn\u2019t want was the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together].\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the quotes don\u2019t come with a reveal of this \u201cbeautiful,\u201d \u201calabaster\u201d work of art. We guess you\u2019ll just have to wait until October 17 in theaters, or November 7 on Netflix, to see it. And once that happens, we\u2019re sure the internet will be totally normal about it.<\/p>\n

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