OH MY GOD YOU CAN’T MAKE ME PICK
also OMG DOUG JONES IS RECOGNIZED <3
(imdb’s question of the day)
for a short time you can watch The Candy Shop online and vote for the film to win an audience choice award.
I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s a metaphorical fairytale based on the sexual exploitation of girls in Atlanta (and in general) (500 girls a month in Atlanta).
It has Doug Jones as the Candy maker, who I’ve personally met and is actually a really sweet guy (and very talented actor).
WATCH IT (it’s only 30 mins long).
(aka now I know why we were afraid of Willy Wonka)
Nobody is better at playing bizarre creatures of the imagination than Doug Jones, who’s probably Guillermo del Toro’s most frequent collaborator. We asked Jones the secret of bringing creatures to life, and whether we’ll ever see Hellboy’s Abe Sapien again.
We asked Jones the secret to playing a memorable non-human, and whether this was different for a hero character versus a monster or an evil character. He responds…
One of the most impressive expressions of del Toro’s imagination is the Faun, a towering creature with a ram’s horns, mysterious opaque eyes, cascading blonde hair, and a strangely jagged body. The costume was made mostly of latex rubber foam, and the ram horns were made of fiberglass horns;…
Gainsbourg UK Trailer (via OptimumReleasing)
I didn’t see Doug in the other one, but you can definitely tell which character he is in this one.
