Jacob Elordi Debuts Blonde Hair During Date Night With Kendall Jenner

In one snap of the pair leaving a Los Angeles hotspot, Elordi—dressed in an all-black ensemble paired with sunglasses and a backwards hat—showed off an unexpected goatee, which he has since swapped for a clean-shaven look. 

And while it remains to be seen whether Elordi’s makeover is tied to a new role, undergoing a dramatic transformation for the big screen is nothing new for the Oscar nominee.

In fact, Guillermo del Toro told E! News last year that Elordi “took around 10 hours every day” to become the Creature in the filmmaker’s 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein, adding that he had “about 42 pieces of makeup, prosthetics. And then he would have to work.”

And it’s safe to say that all the hours Elordi put into the transformation didn’t go unnoticed, with del Toro noting how “he did it all with grace and patience and love.”

But that doesn’t mean the process was an easy one. 

“Your skin gets washed out and covered with something new,” Elordi told Netflix’s Tudum last November. “Your face, and its structure, change. Then you put the costume on and there’s leather and furs, and the weight—it’s all real.”

However, it was during those long hours spent in hair and makeup that Elordi underwent an equally significant internal transformation.

“From the moment I got into the makeup trailer [the performance] began, and it was alive,” he explained. “Guillermo said this would be not just a meditation, but a metamorphosis.”

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