
“But the creature effects guys love to start with a skinny, long palette, because they can build on it and not make it too bulky. “I’m hired because I’m a tall, skinny guy - with other talents, I hope,” Jones told Buzzfeed. Actor Doug Jones attend the 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 2 Premiere at Conrad New York on Januin New York City.
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His first big break? Playing Mac Tonight, the pianist with the head of a crescent moon, in a popular McDonald’s ad campaign in the late ’80s. Browse 2,267 doug jones actor stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. But his background in mime and an extremely lanky body that he credits to having “the metabolism of a 16-year-old,” pushed his career in another direction. Doug is a proper actor.”Īrriving in Los Angeles from Indiana in 1985, Jones had dreams of becoming a sitcom star. “It’s a very, very rare discipline … there are very, very few that are actual actors, in my opinion, that go beyond being able to work in a suit or under makeup. In the meantime, we may yet see Frankenstein and his horrific creation show up in a CBS procedural or maybe even a Blumhouse movie.“A creature performer needs to be a very odd combination of marathon runner and a mime, who can express himself through layers and layers of latex and acrylic and silicon,” The Shape of Water director Guillermo del Toro, who collaborated with Jones on six films, told Buzzfeed News. Now that the studio is no longer worried about having that connective tissue between films, might we still one day see del Toro standing on a set for his Frankenstein project, screaming "It's alive! It's alive!"?

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The Dark Universe version of Frankenstein would have featured Javier Bardem as Frankenstein's monster, who was set to appear in another character's movie before getting his own solo film. Jones suspects that Universal's aborted Dark Universe, which was scrapped after the failure of Tom Cruise's The Mummy, could be the reason why del Toro's version never came to the big screen. It was so hauntingly beautiful, and it did pay reverence to Bernie Wrightson's artwork and also gave you a different-looking Frankenstein monster than what you're used to." It was like, honestly, my eyes welled up. "But I did go to the creature shop, Spectral Motion, who was developing the look for him at the time.I was in the creature shop for something else, and Mike Elizalde, the owner of the shop, said 'I gotta show you something.' Then he unveiled a head and shoulders bust of me with this monster makeup built on it. Doug Jones Biography While famous for working under prosthetics in iconic feature film roles, Doug Jones is also a versatile character actor who has performed as himself in guest star roles on shows like Arrow, The Flash, Teen Wolf, Z-Nation, The Neighbors, Criminal Minds, C.S.I. "I never went through a makeup test myself for it," Jones continued. Here's one of Wrightson's illustrations, which makes it really easy to imagine how Jones could have looked in character: Very bony face, long, stringy, drawn hair."

He was sewn together with spare parts of a couple different bodies. And yet, had an unnatural physical prowess, an unnatural athleticism to him. Which was more emaciated, little skinnier, little more drawn, little more pathetic looking. But it was told to me, Guillermo is a big fan of Bernie Wrightson, and a friend of Bernie Wrightson, and Bernie had illustrated a version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and all of the images of Frankenstein's monster in that, that's what he was going to pattern my look after. Speaking with Collider, Jones – who has played creatures in del Toro movies like from The Faun and the Pale Man in Pan's Labyrinth, Abe Sapien in the Hellboy films, and the amphibian man in The Shape of Water – confirmed that del Toro did indeed want him to play Frankenstein's monster in his would-be film all those years ago, despite the fact that he doesn't have the giant build that you'd expect for someone playing the character: "y first thought is that I'm not the big, broad, big-boned lumbering Frankenstein that you have in mind. It did, however, get far enough that del Toro's frequent collaborator, actor Doug Jones, saw a bust of his own head as Frankenstein's monster, and in a recent interview, he describes what his version of the classic horror character would have looked like.
