Oscar Isaac reveals the 'untranslatable' dirty joke Guillermo del Toro directed him with in Spani...

The director explained how he wanted Isaac to play a scene with a story about a mouse and a lion. Oscar Isaac reveals the 'untranslatable' dirty joke Guillermo

The director explained how he wanted Isaac to play a scene with a story about a mouse and a lion.

Oscar Isaac reveals the 'untranslatable' dirty joke Guillermo del Toro directed him with in Spanish on Frankenstein

The director explained how he wanted Isaac to play a scene with a story about a mouse and a lion.

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Oscar Isaac and Guillermo del Toro promote 'Frankenstein'. Credit:

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The set of Guillermo del Toro's take on *Frankenstein *might not seem like the place for jokes, but star Oscar Isaac definitely heard them on the director's set — all in the name of his performance.

"They're untranslatable," Isaac told *Backstage* in a story published Monday.

Both the actor and the Oscar-winning director speak Spanish, which is what del Toro would use to tell him about, for example, the unlikely parties of a mouse and a lion in a risqué situation.

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"I can't even say the actual punchline; it's so stupid," Isaac said after he broke into a laugh.

Del Toro was using the humor to describe how he wanted him to play the scenes.

So the mouse and the lion?

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"You're the mouse that's really excited about f---ing the lion for the first time," Isaac recalled his director instructing him.

"I can play that," Isaac said he thought. "I understand. I'm really excited. I'm scared, but I'm excited."

Isaac, who's also starred in movies such as *Ex Machina *and *Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker*, plays scientist Victor Frankenstein in the latest retelling of writer Mary Shelley's Gothic novel first published in 1818.

Director Guillermo del Toro and actor Oscar Issac on the 'Frankenstein' set.

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In the del Toro version, the creature played by Jacob Elordi is not terrifying, the director told ** in September before the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, and if he's been dreaming about this creature for all his life, he's going to nail it," del Toro said. "It looks like a newborn, alabaster creature. The scars are beautiful and almost aerodynamic."

Instead, Del Toro summarized Frankenstein's monster as "staggeringly beautiful, in an otherworldly way." The filmmaker wanted to avoid "the feeling that you were seeing an accident victim that has been patched [together]."

The skin, he added, is "from different bodies, so it has different colors." And "the hues are pale but almost translucent. It feels like a newborn soul,"**

*Frankenstein *is at select theaters now. It's available Nov. 7 to stream on Netflix.**

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