Andrew Garfield says he's "disappointed" he couldn't do Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, but Jacob Elordi "needed it more" than him

Dec. 10, 2024

“Meeting Jacob felt really serendipitous”

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Andrew Garfield has explained why he’s “very, very glad” Jacob Elordi replaced him as the monster inGuillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

“I was just with Jacob Elordi, who ended up playing the character of The Creature, in Marrakech so I was hearing about how amazing and satisfying that was for him. So I’m very, very glad that it was him doing it,” the Amazing Spider-Man actor toldDeadlineat Red Sea International Film Festival recently.

“I’m, of course, disappointed that I didn’t get to do it because I love Guillermo and I love Oscar [Isaac] and everyone that he assembled. But meeting Jacob felt really serendipitous so that I could really see and hear that, ‘No, maybe he needed that experience more than me.’ That was cool, to feel that he had a really spectacular time on that job.”

Since then, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance and Ralph Ineson have all nabbed supporting roles.

After being catapulted into the limelight thanks to teen drama series Euphoria, Elordi has been seen in the likes of The Kissing Booth sequels,Saltburn, and Priscilla. The two-time Oscar-nominated Garfield will next be seen opposite Florence Pugh in romance dramaWe Live in Time.

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