Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has only just come out, but fans have watched the movie over and over to only now realise that Mia Goth is featured twice, continuing her trend of dual roles
Netflix viewers have been left a little confused and seriously impressed after realising Mia Goth secretly plays two characters in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
The gothic remake, which stars Oscar Isaac as eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature he brings to life, dropped on Netflix on Friday (8 November). But it’s Mia’s casting that’s become the biggest talking point online.
Fans were shocked to discover the Pearl and MaXXXine actor appears twice in the film first as Baroness Claire, Frankenstein’s mother, in the opening flashbacks, and later as Lady Elizabeth Harlander, the fiancée of Victor’s brother William (Felix Kammerer).
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Fans took the Tiktok to speak on their shock when noticing the actor – twice, one commented “I recognised Mia immediately and then gas lit myself into believing it was a different actor playing Victor’s mum.”
But one fan noticed the similarities in the book, when Victor has a dream where he kisses Elizabeth and she turns into his mother’s dead corpse, noticing how aspects of the novel are woven into the film.
Others said they already knew Mia had two roles, but were still stunned at how unrecognisable she looked.
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And this isn’t the first time Mia Goth has pulled off a double act. Horror fans will remember she also played both Maxine Minx and the much older Pearl in Ti West’s X (2022), a role she later expanded in the prequel Pearl. It’s the kind of transformation that’s become her trademark seamlessly flipping between innocence and darkness, youth and age.
However Netflix admits when Mia first joined Frankenstein, she didn’t actually know she’d be playing both women. She originally believed she’d only be portraying Elizabeth, until her early chats with del Toro took an unexpected turn when she explained she recently became a mother.
“In that moment, I saw Guillermo’s eyes light up,” Mia says. “He said to me that he hadn’t completely figured out who Elizabeth would be. I wonder if, in that moment, he started to put Elizabeth and Claire together for the first time,”
“As much as Claire is Victor’s mother, I also think there’s an incredibly maternal side to Elizabeth,” she added
The actor’s contrasting roles are marked by colour with Claire seen in deep reds, while Elizabeth’s wardrobe leans into shades of green.
Source: Mirror
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