Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' Was Made with Trust and Collaboration

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, leading to plenty of interviews from the director and leading men Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. In a recent discussion with the Ankler , the trio talked about the film’s production, which included more talk about Elordi’s creature performance.

Del Toro has previously talked about Elordi’s “staggeringly beautiful” rendition of the monster, which came from months of studying child development stages, Mary Shelley, and even the Japanese dance-theater form butoh.

Continuing that thread, he said these discussions created a “common language [where] the movie talks to you,” resulting in choices like having Elordi wear two different-sized contact lenses to reflect the character being made up o