8 Actors Who Played Frankenstein’s Monster Before Jacob Elordi | Photos

Director Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is finally streaming on Netflix, and at the center of all of the initial praise for the film is Jacob Elordi. The “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” breakout star has received widespread acclaim for his performance in the film as the Creature, the being of cobbled-and-stitched-together body parts stolen from other, dead corpses who is brought to life in an act of unholy creation by the arrogant scientist, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).

Elordi is utterly unrecognizable in the role, and yet he gives the film enough humanity to make its second half sing. In the wider history of “Frankenstein” adaptations, he is not the first performer to do so.