I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy that doesn't (laughter) - I never lead with the pelvis. I kind of worked on leading with the pelvis, which is something that in my normal life I just don't do. Matadors - if you ever see a bullfighting toreador and how graceful they are, and how confident they are, and how they lead with the hips and the pelvis, and it's sexy and graceful all at the same time and very athletic and very fearless. I understood exactly what he meant immediately, though. And he said, and while you're at it, sprinkle in some matador. So I had to incorporate all of that into this. So that would mean - that comes with a certain regalness and a certain - you know, a royalty kind of posturing. He wanted to see a heroic stance that would warrant why I was worshiped as a god in the Amazon. He wanted (laughter) to really see an ecosystem that came from another place, another world, another species. JONES: Well, he wanted to see no traces of a couple things first. How did you incorporate that into your performance? How did that make you think about how you were going to move? And I was just, like, you know, wiping tears and saying, oh, my gosh, Guillermo.īRIGER: Well, I heard in the conversations you had with Guillermo del Toro about how to play this role that he said the character's part matador. How does it end? So he took me through all the way to the end. ![]() And now - but then I was still like, well, tell me the rest of the story. It's just a - this romance builds out of it. She brings a portable record player with her, and I discover music for the first time. The story begins, though, really, when Sally Hawkins, who plays a cleaning lady on a night shift at this government facility, discovers me, finds a kinship with me immediately, comes back to visit me on her lunch breaks, shares her lunch time with me, teaches me to love hard-boiled eggs (laughter) and teaches me to love music. government facility for testing and for prodding and for biopsying (ph) and for, what can we do with this? How can we use this being in this race for space? I am a - an asset that has been pulled from the Amazon, a fish-man who was worshipped as a god locally by the locals there in South America and brought back to this U.S. You know, Russian Cold War is in full effect. And I said, well, how about you start at the beginning of the story, and get me to the tub? And then he didn't have a script written yet, and he just kind of told me the story verbally.Īnd he started telling me the tale of this 1962 backdrop. And I was like, oh, how involved does that get? And (laughter) he mentioned that there was a bathtub involved. You know, when he said, oh, know you're going to get it on. JONES: I did, just simply because when Guillermo presented this to me, it was going to get a little saucy. I never saw romantic leading male coming with any creature roles (laughter) after 31 years of playing them now.īRIGER: Well, did you have any apprehensions about playing the romantic lead? Was that a surprise to you, to get that role? ![]() You're still playing a creature in the new movie "The Shape of Water." But you're also the romantic lead. SAM BRIGER, BYLINE: Well, Doug Jones, welcome to FRESH AIR.īRIGER: So you've played a lot of things from people's nightmares - monsters, creatures. He spoke with FRESH AIR producer Sam Briger. Jones has suited up for other del Toro films including both "Hellboy" movies and "Pan's Labyrinth." He also has a leading role in the latest "Star Trek" series, "Discovery." For some roles, the makeup required to transform Jones into his character takes over five hours. Elisa is intrigued by the creature, befriends it, and an unconventional romance blooms. The creature is part fish, part man and is now living in a large fish tank in the lab. ![]() One laboratory is performing experiments on a strange amphibious creature, played by Doug Jones, that was captured in the Amazon. The film takes place in 1962 and stars Sally Hawkins as Elisa, a mute woman who works cleaning a secret U.S. ![]() Doug Jones plays the aquatic creature in Guillermo del Toro's latest film, "The Shape Of Water." The film has 13 Oscar nominations this year, including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. That's because he's often wearing a mask or horns or a complete bodysuit that has transformed him into some sort of amphibious fish-man monster. He has over 150 acting credits listed on IMDB, but it's also likely you would not recognize him or know his name. It's likely you've seen our next guest in a TV show or in a movie.
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