'Frankenstein' star Jacob Elordi describes his character as "a vessel that I could put every part of myself into"

While participating in a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Guillermo del Toro and the stars of Frankenstein shared a little more insight into making the film. 

"It was a vessel that I could put every part of myself into. From the moment that I was born to being here with you today, all of it is, is in that character," Jacob Elordi expressed, according to Deadline. "And in so many ways, the creature that’s on screen in this movie is the sort of purest form of myself. He’s more me than I am."

Meanwhile, when the filmmaker was asked about his inspiration, he explained, "It was a religion for me. Since I was a kid — I was raised very Catholic — I never quite understood the saints. And then when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood what a saint or a messiah looked like. So I’ve been following the creature since I was a kid, and I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world."