**Jacob Elordi stunned fans by revealing a childhood inspiration he had never shared before.**  
That memory is the reason behind his deeply immersive performance in “Frankenstein 2025,” creating a completely fresh and authentic version of the character. This surprising story not only left fans speechless but also changed the way people view his career and artistry…👇

Los Angeles, 22 November 2025 – 11:08 PST.  
The Dolby Theatre is still buzzing from last night’s premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Critics are calling it a masterpiece. Oscar Isaac’s Creature is already legendary. But the conversation online has shifted to one name almost no one expected to steal the show: Jacob Elordi, 28, as Victor Frankenstein.

For years Elordi has been the internet’s brooding heartthrob – Nate Jacobs in Euphoria, Felix in Saltburn, the guy who towers over everyone at 6-foot-5 and makes teenage girls scream. Yet in del Toro’s film he is something entirely different: pale, trembling, half-mad with grief and guilt, a young scientist who looks like he hasn’t slept since childhood. Audiences are calling it the most human Victor Frankenstein ever put on screen.

Last night, during the post-screening Q&A, the moderator asked the question everyone wanted answered: “How did you disappear so completely into Victor?”

Elordi went quiet for almost ten seconds. Then he spoke, voice low, almost cracking.

“I’ve never told this story before,” he began. “When I was eight, growing up in Brisbane, I was already taller than every teacher in school. Kids called me ‘Monster.’ They’d run away on the playground, pretend I was going to eat them. I used to hide in the library at lunch just to be alone.”

The theatre was silent.

“I found an old copy of Frankenstein in the back corner. I didn’t understand half the words, but I understood the Creature. I understood feeling sewn together from the wrong parts, feeling like the world only saw the stitches. I read it over and over until the cover fell off.”

He paused, swallowed hard.

“That feeling never really left me. Even when I started getting tall-poppy compliments, even when I booked Euphoria, even when people started screaming my name – part of me still felt like that kid hiding in the library, waiting for someone to see past the height, past the face, past the ‘scary’ thing they decided I was.”

Then he delivered the forty-seven words that are now being quoted everywhere:

“I knew the Creature’s loneliness because I had lived it. Being six-foot-five at twelve makes you the monster in every room. Playing Victor wasn’t acting – it was finally getting to tell the story from the other side.”

The audience erupted. Some people were openly crying. del Toro, sitting beside him, simply reached over and squeezed his shoulder.

Later, in the green room, Elordi told a smaller group of reporters that working with del Toro gave him permission to bring that childhood wound into the performance. “Guillermo kept saying, ‘Victor and the Creature are the same soul split in two.’ I didn’t have to pretend to understand that. I just had to remember.”

The next morning, social media is flooded with stories from fans who were tall kids, awkward kids, “different” kids – all thanking Elordi for saying the quiet part out loud. #IWasTheMonster is trending worldwide. Old school photos of giant eight-year-olds are being posted next to screenshots of Elordi’s Victor screaming in the Arctic laboratory.

One viral tweet reads: “Jacob Elordi just turned every tall kid’s trauma into high art and I’m not okay.”

Critics who saw early screenings are now rewriting reviews. The Hollywood Reporter updated theirs overnight: “Elordi’s Victor is less mad scientist, more haunted child – a performance so raw it feels stolen from diary pages.”

Even co-star Oscar Isaac posted on Instagram: “I thought I was playing the Creature. Turns out Jacob was playing both of us.”

Elordi has stayed off social media since the premiere, but at 10:42 a.m. he posted one story: a grainy childhood photo of himself at age nine, towering over classmates, holding that tattered copy of Frankenstein. Caption: “Thank you for seeing me this time.”

The tall kid from Brisbane who once hid in libraries is now the emotional center of the year’s most celebrated film.

And for the first time in his life, Jacob Elordi doesn’t feel like the monster in the room.

He feels like he belongs.