Variety<\/a> reports.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s so many different layers to the costume,\u201d Elordi told the outlet of transforming into the monster with translucent skin. \u201cWhen he\u2019s born, he\u2019s wearing nearly nothing. His chest is open and his head is high. Then, as he starts to experience pain, as we do as a teenager, he starts to hunch his shoulders. And as an adult, he closes off.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Jacob Elordi as the Creature in ‘Frankenstein.’.<\/p>\n
Ken Woroner\/Netflix<\/p>\n
On days when he had an early call time, Elordi would have to arrive to the makeup trailer at 10 p.m., sitting in makeup all night to transform into the monster, who is meant to be composed of different body parts.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYou throw time away when you make a film like this,\u201d Elordi said. \u201cI stopped having a clock, and I would just wait till the SUV arrived. That meant it was time to go. I didn\u2019t do breakfast, lunch or dinner, or think in terms of morning, afternoon, night. It was just one time.\u201d\u202f\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
And despite the grueling schedule, director del Toro said Elordi was a true professional throughout filming.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cNever once did he come to me and complain,\u201d del Toro told Variety. \u201cNever once did he come to me and say, \u2018I\u2019m tired. I\u2019m hungry. Can I go?\u2019 And he put in 20-hour days.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Jacob Elordi at the 75th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin in February.<\/p>\n
Stephane Cardinale\/Corbis\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n
One \u201ccreature\u201d that wasn\u2019t affected by Elordi\u2019s transformation was his dog Layla.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cShe loved it, actually,\u201d the Saltburn star said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t bark \u2014 or feel threatened.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
In addition to the work done in the makeup chair, Elordi also perfected his movements and speech to play the Creature.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
According to Variety, he based his halting, unsteady walk on a Japanese form of dance called butoh, which he practiced in his free time. He also listened to Mongolian throat singing to get into character.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s guttural smooth chanting,\u201d he said, practicing the lines with the false teeth for his costume, adding of the sounds, \u201cIt feels like it got hit in the head with a bat.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Overall, the role of the Creature had the biggest impact on Elordi as an actor of any of his roles to date.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt changed me fundamentally \u2014 changed the way that I approach performance and the way that I watch movies,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Frankenstein will play in select theaters Oct. 17 and will be released on Netflix on Nov. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Jacob Elordi sat through 10 hours of makeup to transform into the Creature in Guillermo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-97502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}