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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jacob Elordi Is Completely Unrecognizable in Frankenstein
Originally appeared on E! Online is bringing one of pop culture's most famous monsters to life—literally. In the first look at Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Frankenstein movie, the Euphoria star transformed into the titular scientist's reanimated creation. With his disfigured face wrapped up in tatter rags, Elordi was barely recognizable as a creature fused together by Dr. Viktor Frankenstein (played by Oscar Isaac). And according del Toro , the 28-year-old was the "perfect actor" to take up the role after dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts. "We have a supernaturally good connection," the filmmaker told Vanity Fair in an interview published July 28. "It's like, very few words. Very few things I have to say, and he does it." Likewise, makeup artist Mike Hill couldn't be more thrilled with Elordi taking up the mantle. 'What attracted me to him was his gangliness and his wrists. It was this looseness,' Hill told the magazine. "I was like, 'I don't know who else you could get with a physicality like this.'" He continued of Elordi, "His demeanor is innocent, but it's encompassed in a six-foot-five frame. He could really do a lot of damage if this man really wanted to be a bad guy." But Elordi understands that he's proverbially standing on the shoulders of giants in this role. After all, past actors who've portrayed Frankenstein's monster includes Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Robert De Niro and Benedict Cumberbatch. "At first I thought, 'I'll stay away from this. I want to do my own thing,'" he said of visiting past portrayals of the monster. "And then I asked Guillermo, 'Should I watch the other Frankensteins?' And he goes, 'What the f--k do you mean?'" Reasoning that he didn't want to be "influenced" by other actors, Elordi recalled how de Toro assured him that his performance would not be affect. "He says, 'My friend, it's a movie, it can't f--king hurt you,'" Elordi added. "I went home, and I just binged them." Also starring Mia Goth, Charles Dance and Christoph Waltz, Frankenstein hits Netflix in November. For now, keep reading for more dramatic onscreen transformations... More from E! Online Goldie Hawn's Granddaughter Rio Is Her Mini-Me in Rare Red Carpet Appearance Bryan Kohberger's Fellow Inmate Details His Unusual Behavior in Jail How Gwyneth Paltrow Reacted to Ex Brad Pitt's Marriage to Jennifer Aniston He continued of Elordi, "His demeanor is innocent, but it's encompassed in a six-foot-five frame. He could really do a lot of damage if this man really wanted to be a bad guy." But Elordi understands that he's proverbially standing on the shoulders of giants in this role. After all, past actors who've portrayed Frankenstein's monster includes Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, and Benedict Cumberbatch. "At first I thought, 'I'll stay away from this. I want to do my own thing,'" he said of visiting past portrayals of the monster. "And then I asked Guillermo, 'Should I watch the other Frankensteins?' And he goes, 'What the f--k do you mean?'" Reasoning that he didn't want to be "influenced" by other actors, Elordi recalled how de Toro assured him that his performance would not be affected. "He says, 'My friend, it's a movie, it can't f--king hurt you,'" Elordi added. "I went home, and I just binged them." Also starring Mia Goth, Charles Dance and Christoph Waltz, Frankenstein hits Netflix in November. For now, keep reading for more dramatic onscreen transformations... Christian Bale, American Hustle & ViceGlenn Close, Hillbilly ElegySebastian Stan, The ApprenticeAndra Day, The United States vs Billie HolidayCillian Murphy, OppenheimerCharlize Theron, MonsterJoaquin Phoenix, The JokerNicole Kidman, The HoursTom Hanks, PhiladelphiaRenee Zellwegger, JudyMargot Robbie, I, TonyaMatthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers ClubHeath Ledger in The Dark KnightHilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry & Million Dollar BabyGary Oldman, Darkest HourNatalie Portman, Black SwanJared Leto, Dallas Buyers ClubBrie Larson, RoomRooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App Solve the daily Crossword
Elle
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Elle
Jacob Elordi Looks Unreal in First Look as Frankenstein's Monster
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. It's alive! Frankenstein is officially getting the Guillermo del Toro treatment. The Oscar-winning writer-director behind The Shape of Water and Pinocchio is bringing the classic tale to Netflix. Here's everything we know about the forthcoming film. Frankenstein is based on the 1818 Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Here's the film's official logline, per Variery: According to Vanity Fair, del Toro's version of Frankenstein will dive deeper into the characters' family dynamics. 'These are the parallels between Pinocchio and Frankenstein,' he said. 'It's the idea of a person going from a baby to a human being in a short span of time and being exposed to everything—cold, warmth, violence, love, loss. And then going to his creator to say, 'Why? Why did you put me here? Why didn't you give me the answers? What do I have to learn in my suffering?'' Oscar Isaac will play the scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Jacob Elordi will play Frankenstein's creature. Andrew Garfield was originally cast as Frankenstein's creature, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. 'Andrew Garfield stepping out and Jacob coming in... I mean, it was like Jacob is the most perfect actor for the creature,' del Toro told Vanity Fair. 'And we have a supernaturally good connection. It's like, very few words. Very few things I have to say, and he does it.' 'Because I came in so late, everything happened on top of each other at the same time,' Elordi added. 'I was shooting as I was seeing, as I was understanding.' The cast is rounded out by Mia Goth as Elizabeth, the fiancée of Dr. Frankenstein's younger brother; Christoph Waltz as Harlander, an arms dealer; and David Bradley, a blind old man. Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, and Christian Convery will also star. Elordi shared that he went back and watched all of the previous Frankenstein movies, which date back to 1931. 'I devoured all of his monsters,' Elordi said of the late actor Boris Karloff's portrayal of the creature. 'At first I thought, 'I'll stay away from this. I want to do my own thing.' And then I asked Guillermo, 'Should I watch the other Frankensteins?' And he goes, 'What the fuck do you mean?' I was like, 'Well, I don't want it to be influenced.' He says, 'My friend, it's a movie, it can't fucking hurt you.' I went home, and I just binged them.' Frankenstein will be released in November on Netflix. An exact date has yet to be announced. On May 31, Netflix released the official teaser. And on July 28, Vanity Fair unveiled images from the film, which include a first look at Elordi as Frankenstein's monster. This story will be updated.
Express Tribune
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Jacob Elordi is too beautiful to play Frankenstein's monster
Jacob Elordi is not your typical Frankenstein's monster. Towering, sculptural, and unnervingly serene, he's the centrepiece of Guillermo del Toro's dark, operatic take on the classic tale. Shot on a lavish soundstage built to resemble a crumbling European reliquary, the film reimagines Mary Shelley's myth as a story of broken fatherhood, spiritual neglect, and monstrous beauty. Del Toro, now 60, has long described Frankenstein as his dream project. 'This is the one,' he reportedly said during filming. 'This is the one I want to leave behind.' The set was both a mausoleum and a theatre, a water tower transformed into a vertical cathedral of rotting cadavers and cryogenic tubes, all designed to hold the grief and grandeur of Viktor Frankenstein's ambition. Oscar Isaac plays the guilt-soaked doctor with surgical detachment, performing brutal limb-sawing rituals while muttering apologies to the dead. Mia Goth, as a mysterious woman with her own stake in the experiment, watches silently. But it's Elordi who transforms the film's gothic gloom into myth. Covered in prosthetics designed by Mike Hill, he emerges not as a patchwork freak, but as something divine and defiled, a man sculpted by agony. Del Toro reportedly directed Elordi to perform 'like he's praying,' insisting the monster's sorrow should be sacred, not savage. The result is a creature less enraged and more abandoned, quietly asking the question at the heart of the film: why would a father create life only to reject it? With glowing references to religious art, Shelley's original novel, and even del Toro's own Pinocchio, this is less a monster movie and more a bruised meditation on legacy. And Elordi, beautiful, broken, benched under candlelight, may be its most devastating creation yet. Frankenstein arrives on Netflix this November.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
On Swift Horses star Diego Calva on playing Jacob Elordi's on-screen boyfriend and his mental health journey
'Being naked around Jacob Elordi is intimidating!' declares Diego Calva with an infectious giggle, describing his co-star in On Swift Horses. We get it: the pair spend much of this new 1950s-set romance rolling around in matching tighty-whities. 'He's like a fucking god!' Calva adds. 'He's too perfect!' Cue more infectious giggling. Coming from the beautiful with a capital 'B' man whose mesmeric face was the best thing about 2022's Babylon, such modesty is a charming quality. (In a wild turn of events, I bump into Elordi in a London pub that very night, and the Euphoria star is naturally over the moon to learn his friend has landed an Attitude cover.) Calva then reveals how he bonded with Elordi. 'He plays Pokémon. He was playing it on Nintendo Switch. I'd just finished the new game three weeks before. That was the icebreaker: 'How do you catch this Pokémon?' We just started playing!' In On Swift Horses, Calva plays card shark Henry, who starts a passionate affair with drifter and hustler Julius (Elordi). (Rounding out the cast is Warfare's Will Poulter as Julius's strapping, all-American brother Lee, and Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones as Lee's secretly queer wife, Muriel.) Calva was Golden Globe-nominated for his role in Babylon as Hollywood exec Manny, the only man wonderful enough to (briefly) tame Margot Robbie's dazzling 20s starlet Nellie. Who tames who in On Swift Horses is up for debate. 'What I can say is: Hollywood likes me in a period movie, kissing Australian people!' Calva points out. Quite. News of Margot Robbie and Elordi playing tortured lovers in a new take on Wuthering Heights is 'funny' to Calva. 'Doing Horses, Jacob asked me a lot about Margot,' he says. 'Margot's the queen of Australia, and now we have a new king. … I feel pretty lucky — I've kissed both!' This rapidly rising star has form for cheeky quotes. Ever since he teased On Swift Horses' 'pretty hot' sex scenes in a Variety interview in 2023 — and after Barry Keoghan raised the stakes with his bath-drinking revelry opposite Elordi in 2023's Saltburn — the thirst for this film has been real. Battle-hardened by the explicit nature of Euphoria, The White Lotus et al, this viewer went in expecting… Well, it's partly set in Las Vegas, land of Showgirls. Strip poker at least? What I was not expecting was a central dynamic of Heartstopper-level sweetness and a love story, based on the novel of the same name by Shannon Pufahl, that snaps at the heels of Brokeback Mountain and Call Me by Your Name. 'It's like when you fall in love with your first love when you're eight,' says Calva. 'You fall in love with your cousin or your teacher. Something really sweet, platonic, in a way. …When they're inside the hotel room, in their world, because they have to hide from the actual world — they're kids.' It's strange to think that their love, in 1950s America, is illegal; stranger still to think homosexuality was only effectively legalised in America in 2003, when the Supreme Court struck down all remaining state sodomy laws in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas case. (Yes, that recently.) As such, the sex scenes are pointedly there, in flip-flopping abundance, but they're tasteful. The best, in which Julius pins Henry against a mirror, is shot from the shoulders up: the sight of these two handsome faces, reflected into four, is almost more male beauty than the camera can bear. 'It's hard not to do a hot scene with Jacob shirtless!' says Calva, before adding: 'Dan [Minahan], the director, is such a gentleman. He told us: 'I don't want to provoke the audience. This is about actual love. I don't want a classic story of tragedy around these queer characters and then they have kinky sex — no, no, no. They're two sweet guys who really fall in love.'' Calva's protective of them. 'Henry is wilder and more dangerous in the streets,' he adds. 'But with Julius, he's very tender.' Calva is Zooming with me from Istanbul, Turkey, a country gripped by political instability. Within days, thousands march in protest over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, frontrunner in the 2028 presidential race and challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which is surely an attempt to crush democratic opposition. 'I've seen groups of people — they're trying to change stuff, I support them,' says Calva from his hotel lobby, energised. Turkey is as good an example as any as to why films like On Swift Horses are vital — that's if it's even screened there. Authorities in Istanbul banned a 2024 screening of Daniel Craig's Queer, after all, while Pride has been banned in Turkey since 2015. 'Now I'm here, the movie's a reminder that we still have a lot of jobs to do,' says Calva. 'A reminder that it was not a long time ago that this was forbidden all over the world. … It's crazy there are [still] places, countries, chasing queer people.' Watching Calva's two biggest films back to back is another reminder that progress, like sexual liberation, is more of a pendulum swing than a straight line. Babylon depicts roaring 20s Hollywood shifting from silent film to talkies in what was a decade of frenetic change, decadent excess and sexual debauchery, immortalised in a staggeringly drawn-out, swinging-from-the-chandeliers mass orgy scene where anything goes. (Coked-up watersports? You got it). In contrast, '50s America in On Swift Horses, with its low hemlines and white picket fences, seems positively draconian — you can almost feel the asphyxiation of nuclear family ideals as post-Second World War, post-Korean War society grasps for stability. 'It's crazy, no?' says Calva of the contrast. 'The pioneers of moviemaking in the wild, crazy '20s, there was a little more freedom. Then we started to put in a lot of rules. And after the Korean War, a lot of young guys came from the army having realised they're gay, and now they don't have a place to be.' LGBTQ+ women had it no better, of course, as On Swift Horses illustrates so effectively with what might be a film first: a narrative split equally between a queer man and woman who are not a couple. Muriel's first girl-on-girl kiss is interrupted by a police raid on a queer bar; later, she jitterbugs in her underwear in the privacy of her lover's home, an adorably innocent moment laced with the threat of discovery. Babylon, meanwhile, has a sapphic sub-plot involving Chinese-American cabaret-singer Lady Fay (Li Jun Li) saving the life of Nellie by sucking snake venom from her neck — a gasp-inducing scene prompting a glass-closet affair and tabloid sensation. 'We're not used to talking about lesbians in film,' offers Calva. 'Not that much. There's a lot of fabric to cut, a lot of stories to tell.' […] Discussing the personal impact of playing queer characters, and the questions they've raised, Calva explains: 'Every time I've played a character, I keep something. Not a prop, not part of the costume — something about their universe, their hearts. … I played a Columbian character, for example. Now I'm a really, really big salsa fan, and learnt about the political situation in '90s Columbia. 'So, playing Henry, of course, there's something about being queer… And I'm playing an immigrant. I realised I've felt what it is to be hiding as an immigrant, being chased, being judged for the colour of my skin. … It's not about 'queer Mexican'. It's about the universe. What can you find, and keep, about the character? Then the conversation could turn to some [other] place. What is being straight? What is being queer? What's a straight or queer character? For me, it's actually the coolest part of my profession. I'm able to be a lot of different people for a month, for three months, and I'm going to be a little part of those characters for the rest of my life. And I'll defend that statement always.' To read the rest of this feature, check out issue 364 of Attitude magazine is , and alongside 15 years of back issues on the free . The post On Swift Horses star Diego Calva on playing Jacob Elordi's on-screen boyfriend and his mental health journey appeared first on Attitude.
Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Olivia Jade models sexy backless dress as she hits party ALONE amid Jacob Elordi split rumors
Olivia Jade Giannulli turned heads as she arrived at a glamorous event in Miami on Thursday evening. The influencer, 25, who goes professionally by Olivia Jade, looked very much like her mother, actress Lori Loughlin, 60, as she showcased her fit form in a little black dress with a plunging back at the David Yurman after party celebrating the opening of his Miami store opening. The social media personality kept her accessories simple, wearing one of the jeweler's long gold chains down her back and a pair of gold hoop earrings. Olivia displayed her toned legs in a pair of strappy open toe heels. Her makeup was natural looking with a neutral red lip and her long, blonde locks were styled in a loose updo. The model has been enjoying time on a solo trip to the South Florida area, sparking rumors there might be some trouble between her and longtime boyfriend Jacob Elordi, 27. The Australian actor recently wrapped work on the upcoming romantic drama Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie and directed by Emerald Fennel. Elordi stars as the dark and moody Heathcliff. 'The performances from everyone — it's breathtaking,' he told Deadline. 'It's an incredible romance. It's a true epic. It's visually beautiful. The script is beautiful. The costumes are incredible.' The Euphoria star has been promoting his series The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Elordi stars as doctor taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II who is forced to help build a railway in Burma. To accurately portray a prisoner of war, the hunky star lost about 20 pounds. 'We had six weeks to shed all the weight and we got to do it together' he told ETalk about the experience with his fellow castmates. The studio made sure they did it safely. 'We had a great crew of nutritionists and trainers around us,' adding that the experience was 'more psychological than physical.' He said the diet helped put him in 'the headspace' to portray the grim conditions faced by prisoners of war. The five-part series is based on the novel by Richard Flannigan. The Narrow Road to the Deep North debuted April 18 on on Amazon Prime.
