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- Oscar Isaac reveals the 'untranslatable' dirty joke Guillermo del Toro directed him with in Spanish on "Frankenstein"</p>
<p>Raechal ShewfeltOctober 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM</p>
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<p>Oscar Isaac and Guillermo del Toro promote 'Frankenstein'</p>
<p>The set of Guillermo del Toro's take on Frankenstein might not seem like the place for jokes, but star Oscar Isaac definitely heard them on the director's set — all in the name of his performance.</p>
<p>"They're untranslatable," Isaac told Backstage in a story published Monday.</p>
<p>Both the actor and the Oscar-winning director speak Spanish, which is what del Toro would use to tell him about, for example, the unlikely parties of a mouse and a lion in a risqué situation.</p>
<p>"I can't even say the actual punchline; it's so stupid," Isaac said after he broke into a laugh.</p>
<p>Del Toro was using the humor to describe how he wanted him to play the scenes.</p>
<p>So the mouse and the lion?</p>
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<p>"You're the mouse that's really excited about f---ing the lion for the first time," Isaac recalled his director instructing him.</p>
<p>"I can play that," Isaac said he thought. "I understand. I'm really excited. I'm scared, but I'm excited."</p>
<p>Isaac, who's also starred in movies such as Ex Machina and Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker, plays scientist Victor Frankenstein in the latest retelling of writer Mary Shelley's Gothic novel first published in 1818.</p>
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<p>Director Guillermo del Toro and actor Oscar Issac on the 'Frankenstein' set</p>
<p>In the del Toro version, the creature played by Jacob Elordi is not terrifying, the director told Entertainment Weekly in September before the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.</p>
<p>"Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, and if he's been dreaming about this creature for all his life, he's going to nail it," del Toro said. "It looks like a newborn, alabaster creature. The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic."</p>
<p>Instead, Del Toro summarized Frankenstein's monster as "staggeringly beautiful, in an otherworldly way." The filmmaker wanted to avoid "the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together]."</p>
<p>The skin, he added, is "from different bodies, so it has different colors." And "the hues are pale but almost translucent. It feels like a newborn soul,"</p>
<p>Frankenstein is at select theaters now. It's available Nov. 7 to stream on Netflix.</p>
<p>on Entertainment Weekly</p>
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