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And while Jacob is the latest in a long line of stars to play Frankenstein\u2019s monster, joining the likes of <\/span>Boris<\/strong> <\/span>Karloff<\/strong>, <\/span>Robert<\/strong> <\/span>De Niro<\/strong> and <\/span>Benedict<\/strong> <\/span>Cumberbatch<\/strong>, the <\/span>Euphoria<\/span> star originally wasn\u2019t sure if he should revisit those performances for inspiration before filming began.<\/span><\/p>\n “At first I thought, ‘I\u2019ll stay away from this. I want to do my own thing,'” he confessed. “And then I asked Guillermo, \u2018Should I watch the other Frankensteins?\u2019 And he goes, \u2018What the f–k do you mean?\u2019”<\/span><\/p>\n When Jacob shared that he didn\u2019t want to be \u201cinfluenced\u201d by the other films, Guillermo was quick to assure him that his performance would be his own.<\/span><\/p>\n “He says, \u2018My friend, it\u2019s a movie, it can\u2019t f–king hurt you,\u2019” Jacob recalled. “I went home, and I just binged them.”<\/span><\/p>\n Frankenstein<\/span> hits select theaters Oct. 17 before being available on Netflix beginning Nov. 7.<\/span><\/p>\n For more stars with incredible onscreen transformations, keep reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And while Jacob is the latest in a long line of stars to play Frankenstein\u2019s monster, joining the likes of Boris Karloff, Robert De Niro and Benedict Cumberbatch, the Euphoria star originally wasn\u2019t sure if he should revisit those performances for inspiration before filming began. “At first I thought, ‘I\u2019ll stay away from this. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jacob-Elordi-Frankenstein-Transformation-42-Prosthetics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073817,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073815\/revisions\/2073817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}