Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac Want 'Frankenstein' to Speak to Latin American Culture

In a conversation with Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Isaac, dropped online by Netflix to promote the long-awaited collaboration between the cinema faves, the duo talked about how their Latin culture informed their take on Frankenstein .

Guillermo del Toro revealed he and Isaac were on the same page from day one: “I think that one of the things we connected over that dinner was our Latinness. Because obviously the shadow of the father looms differently in the Latin family, I believe.”

Isaac supplied, “[The] patriarchal thing, it’s so strong.”

The director nodded at his actor’s assessment of the way patriarchy comes into play in his film in a different tone due to their upbringing: “[And] the melodrama, and the drama of being blind to those flaws, you know, it’s very Mexican.” The f