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 Paul Schrader Praises ‘Asteroid City’ as ‘the Most Wes Anderson Film’ Ever
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