Jacob Elordi at the L.A. premiere of Netflix's 'Frankenstein' on Oct. 6. Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Netflix Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Jacob Elordi makes quite the transformation into The Creature for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein - but he only took the job so far. At the film's Los Angeles premiere on Monday, the star told The Hollywood Reporter that while shooting the project, "There's a certain point once the prosthetics go on where they kind of demand that you are The Creature and there's a level of focus that needs to come to the role. But at the same time Guillermo created such a free set - I hate when people say this but he really created a safe space, so it was creatively very liberating to be on that set. It wasn't like this idea everyone has of being Method, which is tortured and suffering and everyone else suffers so you can get a performance. It was a little different to that." Related Stories Movies Guillermo del Toro to Receive Cinema Audio Society's 2026 Filmmaker Award Movies Bill Condon, 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Team on Film's "New Urgency" in 2025 Oscar Isaac, who plays his creator, Victor Frankenstein, echoed that del Toro set the tone on set and "it felt much more like a team, so there wasn't a lot of us wallowing in our own shit. It was us really coming together and being there for each other." Jacob Elordi says that #Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro created a safe space on set that felt "creatively, very liberating" and allowed him to dig in deep into the Creature pic.twitter.com/c2bESsSAEl- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 7, 2025 This film is a long time coming for del Toro, who has wanted to make a Frankenstein adaptation for decades and had repeatedly stated that it's his dream project. Now that he's completed it, the filmmaker joked that "it's postpartum depression and celebration at the same time. And it's because when the horizon shifts that brutally - like if you dreamed to make the team or dreamed about graduating or whatever and then you do it and you go, 'ah!,' like the elevator dropped - so that's the one thing; the other one is the joy of having achieved, with a great team, a very operatic, beautiful, epic intimate story about fathers and sons and fathers and sons transmitting the pain. And the power of forgiveness and acceptance is not an easy task." Director Guillermo del Toro says it was vital to tell the story of #Frankenstein from both the Creature and Frankenstein's perspectives because "that's what we're not doing in anything right now. We are showing one perspective or another." pic.twitter.com/lIXTkBuZHF- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 7, 2025 Del Toro also explained why he chose to feature both Victor's and The Creature's points of view in the story, as the film is split in half to show both of their perspectives. "That's what we're not doing in anything right now," he said. "We are showing one perspective or another, and complexity comes from the thought that there is the other, and the other is you. If you can identify that there's no you and me but us, it's an urgent tale to tell." Frankenstein, which also stars Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer and Christoph Waltz, hits select theaters Oct. 17 and starts streaming on Netflix Nov. 7. Tiffany Taylor contributed to this report. Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi pose together at the #Frankenstein premiere pic.twitter.com/wT5xiByLrp- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 7, 2025 THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Michael Mann 'Heat 2' Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive) Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro to Receive Cinema Audio Society's 2026 Filmmaker Award Oscars AMPAS Honors 2025 Student Academy Award Winners Paul Mescal Paul Mescal Will Be Pushed for 'Hamnet' Awards Recognition in Supporting Actor Category (Exclusive) Kiss of the Spider Woman Bill Condon, 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Team on Film's "New Urgency" in 2025 Walt Disney Disney Adapting Katherine Rundell's 'Impossible Creatures' Book Series Michael Mann 'Heat 2' Is On: Michael Mann Crime Drama Moves From Warner Bros. to United Artists; Jerry Bruckheimer, Scott Stuber Producing (Exclusive) Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro to Receive Cinema Audio Society's 2026 Filmmaker Award Oscars AMPAS Honors 2025 Student Academy Award Winners Paul Mescal Paul Mescal Will Be Pushed for 'Hamnet' Awards Recognition in Supporting Actor Category (Exclusive) Kiss of the Spider Woman Bill Condon, 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Team on Film's "New Urgency" in 2025 Walt Disney Disney Adapting Katherine Rundell's 'Impossible Creatures' Book Series