Mia Goth EMBRACING FEAR

THE SCREAM QUEEN IS LEVELLING UP HER CAREER WHILE PRIORITISING PEACE IN HER PERSONAL LIFE

- • By Jennie Noonan

Having made a name for herself by scaring audiences with her roles in director Ti West's indie horror film trilogy – X, Pearl and MaXXXine – Mia Goth had to overcome her own fears when she signed on to star alongside Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi in director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein.

"I've never been so scared stepping into a movie. I really haven't," she told Variety. "It was a lot for me, and I was always in my head. I kept thinking to myself, 'Guillermo del Toro is making Frankenstein, the movie you've always wanted him to make, and [you] get to be a part of that.' And I was so scared that I was going to be the one bad thing in it, and I would ruin it."

In the film, Goth, 32, pulls double duty, playing both Claire Frankenstein (mother to Isaac's Victor Frankenstein) and Elizabeth Lavenza (Victor's eventual love interest).

"It was amazing. We started in Toronto, then we moved to Scotland and to England, and we shot in castles and on mountaintops," Goth told