![]() “I just worked with so many of the creature creators that they all started to recognize me when I was working. Jones continued to speak about Creature Effects – an award-winning special effects studio in Los Angeles – and sing the praises of the collective of people who have played such a big part in his career. But that moon head and that commercial bought my first house so… thanks McDonalds!” The moon head was created by Creature Effects, which was run out of a garage. “Those commercials ended up running for three years! It was wonderful. Starting in 1985, Jones credits his career to moving to Hollywood and taking an acting class with a teacher who would later become his agent – landing him TV commercial auditions for projects such as a Southwest Airlines ad where he played a mummy, small commercials where he played various aliens, and of course the famed Mac Tonight ads for McDonalds. Ball State fully takes credit for my career, and I guess they’re not entirely wrong!” It was a great way to learn that we all, deep down, know how to tell a story through just our bodies, and that’s something that translated so well into my career as a whole. “I got to learn the art of creating things not just through dialog but through working with your limbs. “I joined the miming theater troupe called Mime Over Matter, and it really awakened something in me. Mime Over Matter Image credit: Searchlightĭescribing himself as “just a geeky boy from Indiana,” Jones’ keen nostalgia for his beginnings came through as he described his real start as learning the art of miming at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. This was, of course, cemented by the uproarious applause that erupted as the famed actor took center stage to discuss his climb to stardom, opening the panel by humbly joking “I’m always worried that no one is going to show up to these one day, so thank you all for this.” ![]() Beginning with a jazzy, bobbling giant moon on his head during the “Mac Tonight” years of McDonald’s 1980s advertising and his hit 1993 role as Billy Butcher in Hocus Pocus all the way through his expansive work with Guillermo Del Toro through films like The Shape of Water, Hellboy, and Pan’s Labyrinth and the lanky, charming Saru of Star Trek: Discovery, it’s undoubtable to anyone in the room that Jones’ career is truly a spectacle to behold. Things kicked off with a sizzle reel of Jones’ work - a clip spanning nearly all 36 years of his varied and latex-clad career. If there’s a lanky monster taking center stage during a movie, a beloved character whose movements are just not quite human, or a character so overcome with prosthetics that you can barely recognize that they were human in the first place, then chances are that, underneath the latex and extensions and oddities, you are looking at the affable and other-worldly talent Doug Jones.ĭespite having a career where much of his own features are covered, the actor’s following has no problem seeing him for exactly the immense talent that he is, with the massive Sheraton Ballroom filled for his Spotlight panel on Friday afternoon of Emerald City Comic Con. ![]()
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