‘Frankenstein’ director Guillermo del Toro reveals how he related to monster as a child
The tale of Frankenstein is so eternal. Why why do you think it gets keeps getting remade? I think there are maybe 10 stories that form the vocabulary of myth collectively and uh you know after the classical myths and that’s one of them. Pinocchio is another shallow film stars and you know obviously the the literature of the world has given us many of these and every time you sing it with a truth and power in your voice and conviction they are renewed. And what did you how old were you when you read the book? 11. 11. Wow. And what did you did you immediately love it? I immediately knew the creature was me. Really? Why? cuz I didn’t fit in what people thought I should be as a boy growing up in the 60s. So, how did you I mean, it’s kind of when did you feel like, oh, I’m fitting in now? I don’t fit in. You still don’t fit? No, I can’t at all. But you fit in now that you’re Look at you at the Gotham Awards and winning Oscars. And it’s not about that. It’s about the inner signals aligning with the mainstream or not, right? With what people think is proper or not. Whether people think it should be or when you think it should be Hey,
“Frankenstein” director Guillermo del Toro first read the novel when he was a child — and was left captivated by the misunderstood monster.
“I immediately knew the creature was me,” he told Page Six exclusively at the 2025 Gotham Awards of when he first read the book at age 11.
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