United Kingdom, Jan. 3 -- Jacob Elordi found spending 10 hours in the make-up chair for Frankenstein "the greatest blessing".

The 28-year-old actor portrayed Victor Frankenstein's (Oscar Isaac) creation the Creature in Guillermo Del Toro's adaptation of the classic horror tale and though it took a lot of preparation for him to get ready for a day's filming, he was grateful for it because he had so much time to work on the screenplay and his ideas for the character.

Speaking during The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable, he said: "It gave me the freedom to be completely expressive.

"There were things that I could do in that make-up that I'd never get away with in a regular film.

"When I spoke to Guillermo the first time, he said, '...