Jacob Elordi Calls 'Frankenstein's 10-Hour Makeup Process "Liberating"

As Guillermo del Toro ‘s Frankenstein comes to life on the big screen, Jacob Elordi recalled the seemingly intense process for becoming the Creature.

On the red carpet at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the actor explained to Deadline why the makeup process was “incredibly liberating” for his character work, despite spending nearly half of each day getting into the prosthetics and makeup.

“It was 10 hours to kind of relinquish myself and become this thing that’s other, which was a great relief, really,” said Elordi of Mike Hill , the film’s head of prosthetic makeup effects.

Hill—who previously worked with Del Toro on The Shape of Water (2017), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021) and The Last Voyage of the Detemer (2023)—noted he “ha