{"id":161447,"date":"2025-09-22T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161447\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:03:06","slug":"jacob-elordis-creature-is-so-shockingly-beautiful-in-guillermo-del-toro-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161447\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi\u2019s Creature is \u2018so shockingly beautiful\u2019 in Guillermo Del Toro adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillermo del Toro<\/a> has always had an affinity for monsters \u2013 even the most cursory glance at his filmography will tell you that. Whether it\u2019s the sympathetic supernatural BPRD team in the\u00a0Hellboy\u00a0films, the romantic fish-man of\u00a0The Shape Of Water<\/a>, or the gorgeous ghostliness of\u00a0Crimson Peak<\/a>, he\u2019s never afraid to relate to imbue the least obviously-human creatures with the most humanity in his films. And so, it\u2019s no mistake that his take on\u00a0Frankenstein<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a long-gestating passion-project for the director \u2013 sees the Creature rendered less as a nuts-and-bolts body-horror terror, than a morbid work of beauty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t have asked for better make-up. You can really see the human being in it, but it\u2019s also so shockingly beautiful,\u201d Jacob Elordi, who plays the Creature in del Toro\u2019s film, tells\u00a0Empire. While Mary Shelley\u2019s description of Frankenstein\u2019s creation was always somewhat vague, there was always an element of beauty amid the horror. Donning the prosthetics every day became an important part of Elordi\u2019s character work. \u201cOn our first phone call, Guillermo said, \u2018It\u2019s not a make-up process, it\u2019s not hours in the chair. It\u2019s your time to pass over into the creature,\u2019\u201d explains the actor. \u201cAnd I took that really seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the filmmaker, making\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0has been a hugely personal affair \u2013 not just for his longstanding obsession with the source material. \u201cMy own journey, as a human being, is of a prodigal father,\u201d del Toro explains. \u201cFilm is a very jealous profession with personal life. It takes you away, and it takes a toll. That toll weighed heavily on me as a human being, and I wanted to make the movie about that.\u201d As such, he sees him reflected in various elements of the story. \u201cIt\u2019s about seeing yourself as both a father and a son,\u201d he says. \u201cI am a little bit of Victor. I\u2019m a little bit of the Creature.\u201d We\u2019re in for a Gothic treat.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Empire\u2019s full\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0feature \u2013 going on set of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s adaptation \u2013 in the\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 25 September. Pre-order a copy online now<\/a>.\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0is in cinemas from 17 October, and on Netflix from 7 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro has always had an affinity for monsters \u2013 even the most cursory glance at his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-161447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}