Overview
- Speaking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Actors Roundtable, Elordi detailed spending about 10 hours in full-body makeup and roughly five hours when the Creature was clothed.
- He said the extended preparation allowed him to learn the screenplay deeply and explore expressive choices he wouldn’t attempt in a typical production.
- Elordi recounted Guillermo del Toro framing the process as “the sacrament,” emphasizing the time needed to become something “other.”
- He said he was asked to film the story’s emotional climax earlier than expected, which he felt prevented overthinking.
- Elordi plays the Creature opposite Oscar Isaac’s Victor Frankenstein, with additional cast reported to include Christoph Waltz, Charles Dance and Felix Kammerer.