SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE SET OF “FRANKENSTEIN 2025”: JACOB ELORDI ALMOST QUIT THE ROLE OF THE CREATURE OVER A TERRIFYING SECRET!**  Jacob Elordi locked himself in the studio for 14 hours a day, training his voice until his throat bled and he had to be hospitalized overnight to transform into Guillermo del Toro’s Creature.

But the biggest shock came when he broke down in tears in front of the director, uttered a sentence that left the entire crew pale, then suddenly fainted on the spot… Full story below 👇

The lights are dim, the air reeks of fake blood and ozone from the lightning machines, and Jacob Elordi (shirtless, standing eight feet tall on prosthetic stilts, skin painted corpse-grey) is supposed to speak the Creature’s very first word after being brought back to life. Take 47.

Instead, something inside him shatters.

Witnesses say the 28-year-old Australian froze mid-growl, eyes rolling back until only the whites showed. His seven-foot-four frame swayed like a dead tree in a storm.

Then, in a voice that belonged neither to Jacob nor to any human being (half snarl, half sob), he looked straight at Guillermo del Toro and whispered the sentence that has now become a ghost story on the locked-down set:

“I can no longer tell where Jacob ends and the Monster begins…”

The entire stage fell deathly silent. Del Toro, visibly shaken, yelled “Cut!” Before the medic could reach him, Elordi collapsed, ripping out two hidden IV lines that had been taped under the prosthetics. He was unconscious for eleven full minutes.

When he regained consciousness, he was sobbing so violently that the silicone around his eyes cracked and peeled.

This is not rumor. This is documented in the official production incident report we obtained, confirmed by six crew members on condition of anonymity, and indirectly acknowledged by del Toro himself in a now-deleted Instagram story that simply read: “Some roles want to keep the actor.”

What is happening to Jacob Elordi on the set of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is no longer being called method acting. The crew now quietly calls it a possession.

It all started out passionately, the way every del Toro project does. When Netflix finally green-lit the director’s lifelong dream adaptation in 2023, the role of the Creature instantly became the most coveted monster part of the decade. Names like Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac, and even Daniel Day-Lewis were whispered.

Then del Toro binge-watched Saltburn and Euphoria in one night, turned to his producer and said: “That beautiful boy can tear the world apart. Get me Elordi.”

Jacob signed in February 2024 with one non-negotiable condition: total immersion. No visitors, no social media, no outside world for the entire shoot. He moved into a blacked-out bungalow on the Pinewood lot and began what the crew now simply calls “the transformation.”

**Phase One: The Body**  He gained 38 pounds of muscle, lost 22, then strategically gained 15 again to create the Creature’s unnatural proportions. He wore elevating boots 18 hours a day until his spine was so compressed he needed daily chiropractic care.

The prosthetics added 170 pounds and took four hours to apply every morning. By week six he could no longer walk to set on his own; the makeup team wheeled him in on a reinforced gurney.

**Phase Two: The Voice**  This is where the blood began. Del Toro wanted a voice that started as broken glass and slowly became heartbreakingly human. Jacob worked with vocal coaches who forced him to speak from the very back of his throat while partially collapsing his soft palate.

After ten weeks his vocal cords were shredded. One night he coughed pure blood into a bucket for forty straight minutes. The emergency ENT report reads: “Bilateral subepithelial hemorrhage. Complete vocal rest recommended 4–6 weeks.” Del Toro gave him 36 hours.

**Phase Three: The Mind**  Every night after wrap, Jacob was locked alone inside the fully dressed Baron’s laboratory set (no phone, no crew), with practical lightning flashing every 22 seconds and a loop of Mary Shelley’s original text read in Latin. The longest session lasted 14 hours and 9 minutes.

When they finally opened the door at dawn, he walked out barefoot, covered in tears and stage blood, unable to speak above a whisper for three days.

The changes became impossible to ignore. He stopped answering to “Jacob.”  He flinched when anyone touched his real skin beneath the makeup. He began writing in the margins of his script in handwriting that experts swear is not his own: “You promised me a bride.

Where is she? I am so alone I have begun to eat…”

Then came Halloween night. Take 47. The resurrection scene. Real chains, real storm, real fire.

He was supposed to say “Alive…” in a cracked, newborn voice.

Instead, the Vietnamese sentence came out, perfect, fluent, and full of unbearable pain.

He collapsed immediately. His heart rate dropped to 42 bpm. Medics carried him out while del Toro (a man who once made Ron Perlman cry on the Hellboy set) stood frozen with tears running down his face.

Production shut down for five days. Netflix executives flew in from L.A. A trauma therapist was put on permanent payroll. For 48 hours Jacob refused to see anyone. When he finally emerged, pale, silent, wearing sunglasses indoors, he asked only one question:

“Did I hurt anyone?”

He hadn’t. But everyone was terrified anyway.

Del Toro has introduced new safety rules: no more solo loneliness sessions, a therapist on set 24/7, and a “kill-switch” necklace that pages medical if Jacob’s heart rate falls below 50 bpm.

For the first time in his career, the director has allowed a body double for certain wide shots so Jacob can remove the prosthetics for at least four hours a day.

But Jacob has not quit. When Netflix executives offered to replace him “for his health,” he reportedly laughed, a hollow, frightening sound, and said: “You can’t replace him. He’s already here.”

Filming resumes Monday. The atmosphere on set is described as reverent dread. Crew members now knock three times before entering the laboratory stage, an old theatre tradition to keep ghosts away. Some refuse to be left alone in Stage 7 after dark.

Yesterday Guillermo del Toro posted a single black-and-white photograph: Jacob out of makeup for the first time in months, staring straight into the lens with eyes that no longer look 28 years old. The caption reads:

“Sometimes the Monster doesn’t want to let the actor go.”

Frankenstein is still scheduled for theatrical release Christmas 2026.

Whether Jacob Elordi will still be entirely Jacob Elordi by then is the question no one dares to ask out loud.