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Jacob Elordi is Frankenstein’s monster. And he’s kind of hot

This fall Frankenstein’s monster rises once more, summoned this time by Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro.

But green-skinned, bolt-necked and flat-skulled he is not. In fact, the monster — who first entered the cultural conversation over 200 years ago thanks to Mary Shelley’s gothic science-fiction novel — has undergone something of a facelift. Played by Hollywood heartthrob Jacob Elordi, the creature (who in Shelley’s writing was abandoned by humanity for its immense and unbearable “physical deformity”) appears on-screen with sculpted cheekbones and pouty lips. Even with his suture-less scars, he is kind of hot.

His skin is ivory white, inspired by the alabaster statues carved by Old Masters, with joining wounds that mimic flattering contour-lines. Elordi’s big brown puppy-dog eyes are left untouched, without so much as a zombie-style darkened under-eye. There were discussions about the addition of false eyelashes, according to the film’s visual effects makeup artist and creature designer, Mike Hill, but the consensus was that Elordi’s own were long and fluttering enough.

Actor Jacob Elordi's Sweet Confession About His Golden Retriever Is Everything

There's something beyond sweet about hearing people talk about how much their pets mean to them, including our favorite celebrities. And this week, it was Euphoria star Jacob Elordi's turn to gush about his pup, a Golden Retriever named Layla.

While talking to British Vogue at the London Film Festival premiere of his new movie, Frankenstein, Elordi revealed that who he spends most of his time with is actually his dog, and he had the absolute sweetest things to say about her.

"I spend most of my time with my dog," he admitted, a shy smile on his face. "She's a great teacher in so many ways."

For Jacob Elordi, an out-of-body ‘Frankenstein’ was just what the (mad) doctor ordered

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A curse befell Jacob Elordi when he was a child. It happened in the aisle of a Blockbuster Video. The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now emblematic Pale Man from “Pan’s Labyrinth,” flaunting eyes on his palms on the back cover of the DVD.

“My mother remembers this,” an energetic Elordi tells me in a Hollywood conference room. “I came running through the corridor and I was like, ‘I need this DVD.’ And she was like, ‘That’s so much blood and gore. You can’t watch it.’”

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