Your lead actress, Sally Hawkins, did a gorgeous, gorgeous job playing Elisa, she is a woman without a voice, literally and proverbially. It’s okay to buck authority when authority is getting it wrong. Is it okay to buck authority? Guillermo will always say yes it is. In the face of authority that may be getting it wrong. What struck me about this was that it was very much a deep Guillermo del Toro signature idea - that we’re watching underdogs find a way to come out on top, you know. So those skills have been sharpened of course, but he’s still an eight-year-old fanboy inside of all of it. He’s always been a creative, he’s always been a genius, he’s always been a masterful storyteller. Success, fame, critical acclaim, artistic applause hasn’t changed him. Another beautiful thing about him is he’s the same man today as he was 20 years ago when I met him on Mimic. How has the creative dynamic changed or evolved over time? I mean, do you communicate by a gesture, a raised eyebrow, that sort of thing? But again, he was sure of himself, and he was sure of me, so God bless him for that. I was sure in my heart and soul that he had made a horrible mistake and that there’s no way that I can pull this off. So when he offered, and told me about Shape of Water, and there’s an aquatic creature and you’re going to be the leading romantic male of this film. He knows more about it than I do at this point, so I just have to trust. So when he offers a role to me often times I’ll be like “Oh gosh, that’s a… I don’t know if I can pull that off.” And he’s like “Yes you can!” He finds out how to communicate with you and he’ll sniff out your strengths and your weaknesses. A lot of thought, a lot of creation, of character.Īnd he writes characters for me because he knows me so well by now, and he has a gift that many directors don’t that he knows the human being condition so well that when he meets you he can size up everything about you within minutes. So the fact that he calls me again and says “I have a part for you”, I know that a lot went into that phone call. He’s not just loyal to people because he likes them, he’s loyal to you because you also bring something to the table that he wants, that he loves working with and loves having in his artistic creations, you know. But the fact that he comes back for me again and again speaks a lot. I would love to think that I’m Guillermo del Toro’s muse, but I would never utter those words because that’s sounds very haughty of me. Is it safe to say you two are each other’s muses or something like that? Den of Geek spoke with this soft-spoken and charming man of a thousand faces recently in Los Angeles. Jones’ creature in this movie may be his most empathetic and majestic character yet, while the actor himself - whose credits range from the title alien in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer to Del Toro’s TV series The Strain (and many more) - now has a starring role as Science Officer Saru in the new Star Trek: Discovery series on CBS All Access. military and friendship with a mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) kicks off a most unconventional love story. In the latter, Jones plays the lead role of an aquatic creature - a humanoid “river god” - whose capture by the U.S. An expert at playing monsters, supernatural beings and other forms of life that require heavy makeup and/or prosthetics, Jones is best known for collaborating with director Guillermo del Toro on six feature films, including Pan’s Labyrinth, the two Hellboy movies (in which he played Abe Sapien) and now The Shape of Water. Doug Jones is one of the best modern character actors around, especially when you consider that most of the characters he plays aren’t human.
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