Forget Mickey Mouse: Frankenstein Star Jacob Elordi Is Hooked on This Cult-Favorite Cartoon

Jacob Elordi might be busy brooding through gothic nightmares on screen, but off camera he is apparently a Scooby-Doo guy. Yes, really. While promoting Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, he casually confessed he loves having Mystery Inc. solve crimes in the background. Hard left turn from tormented creature to 'Ruh-roh,' and I kind of love it.

Elordi's very serious Scooby-Doo habit

During a November 2025 Frankenstein press junket with Brut, the 28-year-old surprised fans by singling out the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo as a personal favorite, especially the whole Spooky Island run.

"I watch a lot of Scooby-Doo. I love a Scooby-Doo in the background. I love the movie, I love Spooky Island so much. It’s a great film, a great whodunnit!"

It is a fun peek behind the curtain for someone currently known for heavy, transformative roles.

Frankenstein puts Elordi in the awards race

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein hit Netflix worldwide on November 7, 2025, and immediately shoved Elordi into serious Oscar chatter. He plays the Creature opposite Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein, relying on a ton of physical detail to make a famously misunderstood figure feel painfully human. He reportedly cried the first time he saw himself in full character, which tracks given how much the performance lives in the body language.

One wrinkle that impressed people in the industry: Elordi stepped in for Andrew Garfield with only a few weeks to get ready. Not exactly a low-stakes pinch hit, and he still delivered.

• Title: Frankenstein
• Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
• IMDb: 7.6
• Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
• Where to watch: Netflix

Post-release, awards predictors moved him into Gold Derby's top five for Best Supporting Actor, nudging past Adam Sandler for that final projected nomination slot. He also picked up a Vanguard Tribute at the Gotham Awards, the kind of concrete recognition that powers momentum. If you have been tracking his jump from teen fare like The Kissing Booth to filmmakers with Oscars on their shelves, this feels like the moment it fully flips.

Next up: Heathcliff, rage, and romance

Elordi is not leaving the storm clouds anytime soon. He is leading Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff, with Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw. Warner Bros. dated it for February 13, 2026, and Fennell offered Elordi the role without an audition after their Saltburn collaboration. The film comes via Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment and is pitched as an epic swirl of lust, love, and madness.

The throughline from Frankenstein to Wuthering Heights is pretty clear: both characters are outsiders chewed up by society. The Creature is rejected for how he looks; Heathcliff is cast out for class and a deliberately vague background. ScreenRant called out how the 'compassion, repressed anger, and isolation' Elordi tapped into as the Creature are exactly what Bronte's anti-hero needs, and Elordi has talked about these roles as a way to make audiences confront who we label 'monstrous.'

There is also some debate over fidelity to the text. Bronte describes Heathcliff as dark-skinned, and early set photos of Elordi sporting chunky sideburns and a gold tooth hint at a stylized, not strictly traditional, period vibe. How that lands will be part of the conversation. What is certain: he is quickly becoming Hollywood's go-to for complicated, tormented leading men.

Where this leaves him

Between a breakout turn as del Toro's Creature and a Valentine-weekend swing at Heathcliff, Elordi's lane is getting very specific and very interesting. And yes, imagining him decompressing with Scooby and Shaggy after a day in prosthetics is perfect.

Is Elordi your ideal Heathcliff for this new Wuthering Heights? I am curious where you land on the casting and the modernized look. Frankenstein is streaming now on Netflix.