Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac are opening up about their characters and working together on the highly anticipated project.
Elordi's character transformation included up to 10 hours in the makeup chair. "There’s so many different layers to the costume," he told Variety. "When he’s born, he’s wearing nearly nothing. His chest is open and his head is high. Then, as he starts to experience pain, as we do as a teen ager, he starts to hunch his shoulders. And as an adult, he closes off."
The actor was also extremely excited and nervous to work with Isaac, sharing that he is "one of my favorite actors in the world" and how he was "sh----- bricks at the prospect of working with a hero."
He adds that waiting to hear back from Guillermo del Toro was "the most excruciating nine days of my life." However, Isaac reveals that the director "called me after, like, 'I found him! The creature could be Jesus. But with Jacob, it’s Adam. He’s the first human, and it has that innocence.'"
The rest of the cast includes Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz.
Del Toro shared what the story means to him, expressing, "It’s about the human spirit. It’s not a cautionary tale: It’s about forgiveness, understanding and the importance of listening to each other." He views it "as a biography of these characters" rather than a scary tale.
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
As for Isaac, he saw Victor as "much more as an artist than as a scientist," explaining, "I watched a video of Prince going to the [2007] Super Bowl in order to rehearse. And I just basically stole his walk when he’s going up to the stage with his hands behind the back."
Frankenstein will be released in select theaters on October 17 before heading to Netflix on November 7.
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