Venice welcomes Jacob Elordi and the cast of Frankenstein: the film by Guillermo del Toro presented out of competition at the 2025 cinema exhibition.
Jacob Elordi made his triumphal entry to the Venice Film Festival, welcomed by fans and photographers waiting to see his transformation on the big screen. The Australian actor, among the most requested faces of the new Hollywood generation, interprets the creature in Frankensteinnew reinterpretation signed by Guillermo del Toro and presented out of competition at the 82nd edition of the Festival.
Who is Jacob Elordi
Born in 1997, Elordi became known to the general public with the teenage saga The Kissing Bothbut it was Euphoria to consecrate it as an international talent. From there began a more ambitious trajectory, with carefully chosen roles: from Elvis Presley in Priscilla by Sofia Coppola up to SALTBURN by Emerald Fennell. With FrankensteinElordi performs a further leap, measuring himself with a tragic and universal figure of western culture.
The monster according to Elordi and Del Toro
In this version, Victor Frankenstein is played by Oscar Isaac, a brilliant and self -centered scientist who challenges the laws of nature creating a creature intended for suffering. Jacob Elordi, already known for Euphoria And for the incursions in the author’s cinema, he chose to embody the “monster” through a physical and immersive approach, supported by the philosophy of Del Toro: sets that really built, tangible scenography and cinematographic crafts instead of the green screen.
A press conference between irony and visions
At the Venetian press conference, Del Toro reiterated his faith in concreteness: «We build the sets as if they were clothes for the actors. If you look at a ball on a green screen, it is not the same as to react to a window, to a light, to a real object ». A vision that has found Eco in the words of Oscar Isaac, who underlined how much the materiality of the scenography adds meaning to the interpretations.
The most memorable joke, however, came from Christoph Waltz, who with a few sentences conquered the room: “The CGI is for losers,” he said with Sarcasmo, tearing laughter, only to then add, to a question about optimism in today’s “monstrous times”: “I am not”.
