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  • 6/2/2025
At Tudum 2025, Oscar Isaac chats with THR and reveals that he still can't believe that Guillermo del Toro asked him to play Victor Frankenstein in his upcoming film. Plus, he shares what it was like to see Jacob Elordi play Frankenstein's monster.

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00:00What did you think when Guillermo came to you with this idea?
00:03I wasn't expecting it.
00:05I was just sitting with him talking, and after a long conversation,
00:09he looked up to me and said,
00:10I think that you need to be my Victor Frankenstein.
00:13And I was just, yeah, I still can't believe it.
00:15I still really can't believe it.
00:16I think I'm going to get on that stage and maybe faint,
00:18because I was expecting to wake up any moment and be like,
00:21I knew this wasn't real, but he said,
00:24I'm going to make you a banquet as an actor,
00:27and that is what he did.
00:28Every day I would come to set, and I just was so excited
00:30and was doing all sorts of beautiful, difficult, expressive things,
00:36and I just had him as my brother right there with me,
00:38helping me every step of the way.
00:40He's described this as not a horror movie.
00:42How would you kind of describe what it is?
00:44It is a big, Mexican, dark, sumptuous, dramatic character piece.
00:52And how is it seeing Jacob as the monster for the first time?
00:56Heartbreaking.
00:56Heartbreaking is such a graceful, beautiful, sad portrait,
01:02and rageful portrait of this creature.

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