“I was truly moved by her,” Jacob Elordi shyly shared about his scene with Mia Goth. Without lengthy dialogue, just a few glances and a trembling touch, they made the audience feel the quiet yet intense bond between two outcasts…

Additionally, Jacob revealed a deleted scene that, when re-shot, made the entire crew blush and no one dared to look each other in the eye… Watch the full story below 👇

Los Angeles, December 2, 2025 – 9:14 p.m. PST

Jacob Elordi doesn’t do many interviews these days. After the whirlwind of Saltburn, Euphoria Season 3 delays, and the non-stop Priscilla-Superman-Bond rumor mill, the 28-year-old Australian has mostly retreated into work.

So when he agreed to a rare, no-publicist, no-handlers, 45-minute sit-down with Variety at a quiet café in Silver Lake, nobody expected him to open a vein.

But that’s exactly what happened when the conversation turned to Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, in which Elordi plays the Creature opposite Mia Goth’s Dr. Victoria Frankenstein (a bold gender-flipped take on the Bride).

The film doesn’t open until November 2026, yet one particular moment from the press tour is already threatening to break the internet before a single trailer has dropped.

It started innocently enough.

Variety asked Jacob about the wordless chemistry he shares with Goth in the first-look stills that del Toro posted last month: the Creature, scarred and towering, reaching out with a trembling hand while Victoria, eyes brimming, meets it with her own.

Jacob looked down at his coffee, smiled the smallest, most private smile, and said:

“I was truly moved by her. Genuinely. I don’t think I’ve ever felt anything like that on a set before.”

Then, after a long pause that made the reporter lean forward, he continued:

“There was this one scene… we had to reshoot it, like, seven or eight times. Not because we couldn’t get it right. Because every single take was… too much. Too real.”

He rubbed the back of his neck, the way he does when he’s nervous, and dropped the quote that has already been screenshotted 1.7 million times:

“There was a scene that Mia and I had to do over several times, just a prolonged touch, but it made the atmosphere on set incredibly… ‘heated.’ The emotions in that moment were so real that the entire crew blushed and felt so awkward they didn’t dare to look directly at us.

In the end, that scene was cut down because it was too distracting, but I think it clearly showed the special connection between the two characters.”

The café went dead quiet. Even the barista stopped mid-latte.

Jacob laughed softly, cheeks actually turning pink, and added, “Yeah… Guillermo finally yelled ‘Cut!’ and then just whispered, ‘We can’t put that in a PG-13 movie, children.’ Everyone lost it.”

According to multiple sources on the closed London set last spring, the scene in question takes place in Chapter 4 of del Toro’s three-hour cut (the version he screened for test audiences that reportedly left people sobbing).

The Creature has just learned to speak his first full sentence (“I… am… alive”). Victoria, overwhelmed, reaches up to touch the bolt in his neck, an almost maternal gesture that slowly morphs into something far more intimate. Their hands linger. Forehead to forehead. Breathing synchronized.

No dialogue for a full 84 seconds.

Take one was already electric. By take six, the 70-person crew had stopped pretending to check monitors.

The boom operator reportedly lowered the mic because “it felt like eavesdropping on something sacred.” Del Toro, famously never lost for words, simply watched in silence, tears streaming down his face behind the viewfinder.

One grip told us later: “I’ve been on sets with actual sex scenes that felt less naked than that moment.”

Mia Goth, in a separate interview with Vogue last month, corroborated every word without realizing Jacob would go public first. When asked what it was like acting opposite Elordi, she said only: “He’s so gentle it hurts. You forget the cameras are there. You forget you’re acting.”

After the seventh take, del Toro made the call: the full, uncut version would stay in his personal director’s cut, but the theatrical release would trim it to 23 seconds, just enough for audiences to feel the ache without derailing the film’s rating or pacing.

Jacob, however, isn’t letting it disappear completely.

During the same Variety conversation, he revealed that he and Mia secretly kept the dailies of the longest take on a private hard drive labeled “Do Not Open Until 2075.” He laughed and said, “Guillermo thinks we’re dramatic. We think we’re preserving art.”

The internet, predictably, has lost its collective mind.

Within hours of the article dropping, #JacobAndMia and #TheTouchThatBrokeTheCrew were trending worldwide. TikTok is flooded with slowed-down edits of their behind-the-scenes photos set to Lana Del Rey and Max Richter. Someone has already written 40,000 words of Creature/Bride fanfiction titled “Eighty-Four Seconds.”

Del Toro himself weighed in at 2:03 a.m. with a single tweet that has since been framed by half the crew:

“My children made lightning in a bottle.  I just had the privilege of catching it before it burned the house down.  See you in 2026.”

As for Jacob and Mia, neither has posted anything since the interview. But at 3:17 a.m.

Los Angeles time, Mia quietly updated her Instagram story for the first time in months: a black-and-white still from set, just their two hands intertwined against the Creature’s scarred chest, captioned with a single lightning bolt emoji.

Jacob’s phone, according to friends, has been on Do Not Disturb ever since.

Somewhere in London, a hard drive labeled “Do Not Open Until 2075” sits in a locked drawer.

And somewhere else, two actors who played monsters remember the exact moment they forgot they ever were.