His height of 1.96, which brought him more than one no when he was making his way as an actor, will now turn him into a very tall Frankenstein monster. Jacob Elordi, who rose to fame in 2019 for the role of Nate Jacobs in the series Euphoria, will give life to the creature that Mary Shelley imagined in her 1818 novel and that has been filmed so many times. Now the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro will do it, who is already preparing his own version for Netflix.
Elordi, 26, has joined the project, replacing Andrew Garfield, who was the actor who was initially going to play the monster and who left the film due to scheduling problems. Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight, Secrets of a Marriage) will play Dr. Frankenstein.
Boris Karloff will forever be in the minds of the most cinephiles, who played the monster in the version that James Whale brought to the cinema in 1931 and subsequently on two other occasions. But Charles Ogle was the first actor to step into the shoes of the creature. It was in 1910 in a 14-minute short titled Frankenstein, which was the first screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's work. More recently, other artists have assumed that role, such as Christopher Lee, Robert de Niro and Bela Lugosi.
For Jacob Elordi it will be a challenge to transform into a monster because the actor is a sex symbol of his generation. After his role as a bad boy in the series Euphoria, he has been wisely choosing his projects: in 2022 he shared the bill with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas in the thriller Deep Waters; He has starred in one of the films of the moment, Saltburn, by Emerald Fennell, and is about to release Sofia Coppola's Priscilla in Spain, in which he plays Elvis Presley. He will soon also be the protagonist of Oh Canada, the new work by director Paul Schrader, alongside Richard Gere and Uma Thurman.
This young Australian of Basque origins (his grandfather was from Algorta and emigrated when Elordi's father was only eight years old) was born into a middle-class Catholic family in Brisbane. He has three older sisters. As a child he already dreamed of being an actor so he began attending acting classes. At just 11 years old he debuted on stage with a musical. Willing to pursue a career as an actor, he moved to Hollywood. His first role on the big screen was as an extra in Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge. He was 19 years old.
Her media explosion came in 2018, when she starred, at the age of 21, in the first film of the Netflix adolescent trilogy My First Kiss. From there to Euphoria. It was then that her name began to be established in the gossip press due to her affairs: first with her co-star, Zendaya; later with model Kaia Gerber and currently with Olivia Jade Giannulli, daughter of actress Lori Loughlin.
Already a star, Elordi can't quite believe his success. He confesses that he even thought about leaving everything when fame suddenly overwhelmed him. “Every day I feel like I shouldn't be here. “That I am an imposter,” he has explained on occasion.
