![]() Over the years, he portrayed mummies, aliens, ghosts (“Hocus Pocus”), and clowns (“Batman Returns,” where he spent 14 weeks on set). I don’t want to ruin their mojo with my stupid opinion.” “Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don’t do that, it makes you rather exceptional, apparently.” Nor does Jones try to add design input: “The most decorated and award-winning, brilliant artists in the world have had their hands on my face. “During that time is when I was established as tall, skinny, goofy guy who moves well, wears a lot of crap on his face, and does not complain about it,” Jones said. The campaign lasted three years and produced 27 commercials, although he was never paid above scale the fast-food corporation argued anyone could wear the mask. ![]() His fourth booking was Mac Tonight, a piano player who sang “Mack the Knife” while wearing an oversize, crescent-shaped headpiece and shilling McDonald’s from atop a spinning hamburger. “That was one of my first experiences feeling pretty,” he said. Very few agents knew what to do with me.”)Then he found Wilhelmina Models. (“I can put my legs behind my head,” Jones said. In 1985, he and his wife, Laurie, moved to Hollywood, where Jones’ resume boasted skills as a mime and contortionist. An upperclassman who noticed him gesticulating in the cafeteria recruited him for the school’s mime company, Mime Over Matter, and Jones also spent two years anthropomorphizing the school’s fuzzy red mascot, Charlie Cardinal. ![]() If you don’t fit a certain small sliver of what’s considered normal in the Midwest, kids can be very cruel to each other.” Television, he said, was “where I found my friends as a kid,” rubber-faced, insecure goofballs like Barney Fife (Don Knotts) and Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) on “The Andy Griffith Show,” Gilligan (Bob Denver) on “Gilligan’s Island,” and the entire cast of “The Carol Burnett Show.” Doug Jones on “Star Trek: Discovery” CBS All AccessĪn aspiring sitcom star, he attended college at David Letterman’s alma mater, Ball State University, majoring in radio and TV broadcasting and minoring in theater. “I never sought to play monsters in films,” said Jones, who additionally plays a Starfleet officer from the planet Kelpia on CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Discovery.” Raised with three older brothers in Indianapolis, Indiana, he describes his school-age self as an “awkward” and a “lanky, gangly boy. Doug Jones in “Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer” Fo/Marvel/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Jones has seen plot lines hinge on his characters, but those performances can be bittersweet: his voice was dubbed by David Hyde Pierce in “Hellboy,” and by Laurence Fishburne in “Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer.” With “The Shape of Water” - a direct response to the polarizing discourse of 2017 and already a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner - Jones is finally getting the recognition he deserves beneath the prosthetics, and it just might translate into a Best Actor nomination. ![]() Sally Hawkins and Jones in “The Shape of Water”Īlthough he has more than 150 credits, Jones (a suspiciously youthful 57) had never been cast as a romantic lead before Fox Searchlight’s “The Shape of Water.” In an interview at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, he described his usual repertoire as “monster that antagonistic and swiping at people,” “funny or scary characters that are sidekicks,” and anyone who “adds some color pushes other people’s stories along.” In the script, Jones’ role goes unnamed he is credited as “Amphibian Man” and answered to the nicknames “The Asset,” “The Creature,” “Fish Man,” “Gill Man” and, per his trailer door and set chair, “Charlie Tuna,” after the late LA radio and television personality. “Words lie, looks don’t, energy doesn’t,” the film’s director, producer, and co-writer, Guillermo del Toro, said Saturday in a Vulture Festival Los Angeles conversation with Jones. ![]() As the object of her affection - the lone Amazonian creature from an otherwise extinct species, held captive in the government lab she mops nightly - Jones also doesn’t speak. Much has been made of Hawkins’s near-silent performance as janitor Elisa Esposito, who survived childhood trauma to become a self-sufficient, frolicking Baltimorean. Read More: ‘The Shape of Water’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Lush Fairy Tale Is a Powerful Vision of Love What Guillermo del Toro Learned Shadowing William Friedkin on His Final Film ![]()
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