There’s the part of his backstory that makes him mysterious. ![]() Part of the “how do you choose your roles” process for me is: Does it touch me in some way? Do I connect with it in some way? There’s something about his otherness – he’s captured and taken to an environment that he doesn’t belong in, tortured – that I found very sympathetic. I’ve played characters with full personalities before, but there’s something about this one that really touched me. ![]() The heart and soul that is layered into him in the story. Arriving at the design for the creature was a labor intensive-process that saw del Toro pour his own money into research and development. Jones spent three hours each day in the makeup chair to prepare for scenes that featured the fish-man, who was nicknamed “Charlie” on set-the name came from the old Star-Kist mascot, Charlie the Tuna. “You have to try to make this thing you’re wearing become a part of you.” “You kind of have to forget the physical challenge in the moment,” he says. Just as Andy Serkis is the king of performance capture – inhabiting apes and Gollums and Star Wars villains through the magic of technology – Jones is the guy you call when you need someone to bring life and/or a recognizable humanity to a creature that’s something other than human. But Jones has built a 30-year career by squeezing his impossibly lean frame into various costumes and contraptions to portray an array of creatures and alien beings. “My first day on set was going through the makeup and costume process, then ending up on my knees on concrete being zapped by a cattle prod by a very intense actor.”įor the average person, spending three hours in a makeup chair before even walking onto a set might sound like torture. “We started with a scene in which … I’m chained to a cement block on my knees and being tortured and prodded by Michael Shannon,” Jones says. ![]() Doug Jones can clearly recall his first day filming The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro‘s hand-crafted aquatic fairy tale in which the 57-year-old actor plays a nameless amphibian man who falls for Sally Hawkins’ mute cleaning lady in 1960s Baltimore.
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