TORONTO – Victor Frankenstein might be the guy playing God, but it was Jacob Elordi who had a holy experience becoming the Creature in “Frankenstein.”
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation (in theaters Oct. 17, streaming Nov. 7 on Netflix) of Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic masterwork casts Oscar Isaac as the egotistical title scientist and Elordi as his patchwork creation. At a post-premiere Q&A at Toronto Film Festival, Elordi said it was “everything” to embrace that transformation into a new version of an iconic figure.
“I couldn’t possibly have played the character without that,” said the 28-year-old Australian, whose 6-foot-5 frame helped with the Creature’s monstrous proportions. “From the moment I sat in the (makeup) chair in the morning as me, that 10-hour process was what was necessary to be able to step into that world.
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“Guillermo had described it to me when we first spoke, he said I needed to take the sacrament. It needed to be biblical and from the soul.”
