Doug Jones as Nosferatu, Billy Butcherson, and The Baron
October is a busy month for actor Doug Jones. If you've sat down to watch any number of Halloween or monster movies, he's likely to be in at least one of them. Hocus Pocus? Check. Hellboy? Check. Pan's Labyrinth? Check. I got the chance to sit down with Jones ahead of his upcoming movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, in honor of Hocus Pocus 2's premiere on Freeform, and the premiere of the sixth and final season of What We Do In the Shadows.
And then he kept me, he kept my card in his wallet… Now, 25 years later, and... you know, six movies later and... occurring on his TV show. It turned into a really good relationship. And when you get it, when you fall in with a director like Guillermo del Toro, you're falling in with an artist who understands monsters in a way that that many directors don't. He can make them the leading character of the movie.
JONES: Yeah, the character Count Orlek/Nosferatu originally played by Max Schrek right, in the 1922 movie. It was a silent film, of course. And, and just, it has become an absolute classic. It was, it was, it's like the vampire, Granddaddy. And so it was a kind of a dream of mine to play him, to do a reprisal of the original. And it's been done, you know, Willem Defoe played in Shadow of the Vampire. And there was also a 1970-something version of Nosferatu.
That's awesome. I'm really looking forward to it, that hits Apple TV in just a couple of days. That's super exciting. So you know when you said it took 29+ years to sort of get the ball rolling on the second one… So what's the most memorable moment you have returning to that world, you know, on Hocus Pocus 2 ?
JONES: Right, The Baron has had four different looks on this show to date… We started off in Season One with me wrinkly and pointy-eared, kind of like a Nosferatu-y, kind of looking old school, old world vampire, and that got burned by the sun and my body broke in half while they were burying me, and you thought I was dead, and then when they dig me up in Season Three, he's still alive, but with only half a body and one arm like fused to his chest cavity. And just like...
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