Guillermo del Toro has always had an affinity for monsters – even the most cursory glance at his filmography will tell you that. And so, it’s no mistake that his take on Frankenstein – a long-gestating passion-project for the director – sees the Creature rendered less as a nuts-and-bolts body-horror terror, than a morbid work of beauty. You can really see the human being in it, but it’s also so shockingly beautiful,” Jacob Elordi, who plays the Creature in del Toro’s film, tells Empire. “On our first phone call, Guillermo said, ‘It’s not a make-up process, it’s not hours in the chair. “My own journey, as a human being, is of a prodigal father,” del Toro explains.