“Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro first read the novel when he was a child — and was left captivated by the misunderstood monster.

“I immediately knew the creature was me,” he told Page Six exclusively at the 2025 Gotham Awards of when he first read the book at age 11.

The critically acclaimed director explained that he related to the creature’s alienation from society.

“I didn’t fit [into] what people thought I should be as a boy growing up in the 60s,” he said.

Del Toro insisted that despite becoming an Oscar-winning artist, he still feels like that alienated 11-year-old boy who related to the monster.

“It’s about the inner signals aligning with the mainstream or not,” he explained. “With what people think is proper or not. Or, what people think it should be or what you t

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