Jacob Elordi is stepping into a whole new kind of role, literally.

The Saltburn and Euphoria star covers WSJ. Magazine, opening up about playing Frankenstein’s monster in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, arriving November 7th on Netflix.

In the interview, Elordi discusses his transformation into the iconic creature, his upcoming collaboration with Margot Robbie, and his thoughts on everything from fame to the concept of shame.

He shared that his earliest acting influence came from watching Heath Ledger, a connection that clearly shaped his approach to complex, emotionally raw characters.

To embody the monster, Elordi went all in learning Butoh, a Japanese dance form, to physically portray the monster’s pain, and Tibetan throat singing to create what he called an “otherworldly voice.” He even kept a journal written entirely with his left hand to mimic the creature’s unfamiliar sense of self.

For six months of filming, he spent hours in prosthetics and full-body makeup, an experience that he says left him “really, really isolated in the same way that he [the monster] is.”

Despite his rising fame, Jacob told WSJ. that he tries to block out the noise. “I don’t really acknowledge attention,” he said. “My reality exists between the start and end of a production… and then I go home.”

Reflecting on the public’s perception of him, he compared himself to the monster: “Everyone wants to project onto you. You’re a creature made up of all the people that have made you, but in this patchwork way that’s not… human.”

In an age of constant exposure, his call for a return to “shame” feels less like repression and more like a reminder that humility and restraint still matter.

“Frankenstein,” written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz, premieres November 7th on Netflix.