![]() “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 Berg, Aaron Harberts, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.The Death of Beloved Film Programmer Doug Jones Inspires an Outpouring of Love and Grief Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the cast also will feature an openly gay actor as one of the male leads (which Fuller confirmed), a female admiral, a male Klingon captain, a male admiral, a male adviser and a British male doctor.Įxecutive producers include Alex Kurtzman, Fuller, Roddenberry Entertainment, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. The platform currently is airing an all-digital season of Big Brother. ![]() Now the Good Wife spinoff (titled The Good Fight) will take that title when it launches on CBS in February before moving to All Access. Although the remake was originally set to be CBS All Access’ first original series, its debut was pushed from January to May. The duo join previously announced cast member Michelle Yeoh, who will play Captain Georgiou, the Starfleet Captain aboard the Starship Shenzhou.īryan Fuller stepped down from his role as showrunner on the digital series in October. The actor, best known for his roles in Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, is repped by OmniPop Talent Group. Saru, a Starfleet Science Officer and a new alien species to the Star Trek universe.
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