{"id":99805,"date":"2025-07-28T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99805\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:30:10","slug":"our-terrifying-first-look-at-jacob-elordi-in-guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/99805\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Terrifying First Look at Jacob Elordi in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much like Frankenstein\u2019s monster itself, the monster at the center of<\/a> Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein is a mash-up of inspirations<\/a>. There\u2019s Boris Karloff, the original and most famous Frankenstein. There\u2019s artist Bernie Wrightson, whose illustrations of the character greatly impacted del Toro. There\u2019s Mary Shelley, of course, whose novel the film<\/a> is based on. And then there\u2019s make-up artist Mike Hill and the actor under that make-up, Jacob Elordi, who you see above in the first official image of the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat attracted me to [Elordi] was his gangliness and his wrists. It was this looseness,\u201d Hill told Vanity Fair<\/a>. \u201cThen he has these real somber moments where he watches you really deftly, and his eyelids are low, with the long lashes like Karloff. I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know who else you could get with a physicality like this.\u2019 His demeanor is innocent, but it\u2019s encompassed in a six-foot-five frame. He could really do a lot of damage if this man really wanted to be a bad guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though this Frankenstein will look unlike others we\u2019ve seen, he\u2019s described as being \u201ckintsugi-like.\u201d That\u2019s the art of repairing pottery with gold, and it begins to give you some idea of what to expect. \u201cWhen fully exposed, the creature resembles a marble statue from antiquity that has been shattered and fused back together,\u201d the Vanity Fair piece reads.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the physical. For the performance, Elordi binge-watched all of Karloff\u2019s movies and put Wrightson\u2019s art all over his apartment (which Isaac also did in his trailer). \u201cI turned it into this shrine to all things that I felt pertained to the creature,\u201d Elordi told the magazine. \u201cBernie\u2019s pictures were all over the walls. Maybe when you\u2019re asleep, or just by walking around it all, you end up soaking it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which he had to do very quickly because, mere weeks before production, Andrew Garfield\u2014who was originally cast as the monster\u2014had to drop out. It was a blow, but in Elordi, who is several inches taller than Garfield, the production found someone even more intimidating. \u201cAndrew Garfield stepping out and Jacob coming in. I mean, it was like Jacob is the most perfect actor for the creature,\u201d del Toro said. \u201cAnd we have a supernaturally good connection. It\u2019s like, very few words. Very few things I have to say, and he does it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many more words on Frankenstein, including hints at the plot, characters, and more, head over to Vanity Fair<\/a>. There are also a ton of new, gorgeous pictures there too. The film comes to Netflix in November.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like Frankenstein\u2019s monster itself, the monster at the center of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein is a mash-up…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,65100,58203,65229,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-99805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-frankenstein","10":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","11":"tag-jacob-elordi","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114931815340196102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}