You started out as a mime, right? Is that where that comes from? It seems like so much of your performances are about movement – this is going to sound really pretentious, but there’s almost something of the silent era about your work.
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Eyes are the windows to the soul, right, and this character does have a very charming look to his face, even though he’s otherworldly. They did a great job of finding the performance I was giving and digitising it.ĭon’t forget those eyes – those are very important.
So it takes a bit of teamwork for them to follow my expression and where I’m looking and the verbal pauses I give them and the physical gesturing they’ll use all of that to find out where my eyes should go and when to blink. The eyes on the mask are wider and – they’re not the eyes that I actually look through, those are fake eyes, so in post-production they make them blink and look around. Todd Masters and his company, Masters FX, they’re the ones who created my look, and they’re also doing a slight digital enhancement in after effects once we’re done. My facial expressions may not read clearly so I have to accentuate them and try to talk as articulately and as large as I can so the mask will respond. Physicality plays a more important part when your face is covered with a layer of latex foam rubber. Well, you do a lot of subtle gestures with your head. How do you develop a character when you can’t really see your face? I’m sure you did! This role, like so many of your roles, involves a lot of makeup and prosthetics. I hope I did, and the audience will now tell me if I did. Now we’re done filming season three, I think I did. So I wanted to see if I could pull it off. You’re doing episodes back to back, and the rewrites are constant and ferocious, so when you’ve memorised dialogue – every time I come on screen I’m yapping a lot – when you’re committing that much to memory, and the rewrites come and change the entire scene the day before you’re going to film it, wow, that keeps your brain on point.
#Doug jones actor voice series
I’ve done lots of guest-starring roles in series television but this is my first time being a series regular on a show. If you’re gonna play opposite someone like that, you really need to bring your A-game. When you’re with that calibre of actor, it only raises your own game. I think television is getting to a level that is very cinematic now, and of course with Steven Spielberg as your executive producer, you’re going to get that! So that attracted me, because I liked the show, and of course I understood there was an alien character with all the rubber makeup on and lots of dialogue, I figured, “Okay, I see this as a Doug Jones role, I get it!”Īnd when I saw how he was written and that he got to be a good guy and he’s a very intelligent character and he speaks perfect English with intelligence – a lot of exposition comes from him, and I have weapons that the humans don’t have, and it’s fun to be the hero who gets to come and save the day, no matter what my motivation might be…Īlso, getting to work with that cast: there’s Noah Wyle and Will Patton and Moon Bloodgood and we have some great guest stars on too, like Stephen Collins and Robert Sean Leonard and Gloria Reuben these are names and faces that I’ve seen for years and I’d never met any of them and this was a great opportunity. So I think as an audience member you need to look at me through everyone’s eyes to get a good picture and to make guesses for yourself as to why I’m here.įirst of all, I was a fan of the show anyway. So I am here to help, and I’m the leader of my people, and the question that’s going to be posed is: why? Why would this alien species land from another planet and help the humans fight off the bad aliens? That’ll be the question you ask yourself, and that’s the question that I can’t even answer.Īs far as I know, I’m doing good, but if you look at my character through the eyes of – well, Noah Wyle’s Tom Mason befriends me the most, but if you look through the eyes of Will Patton’s character, Colonel Weaver, or Colin Cunningham’s character, John Pope, those are the two naysayers on the show who always look at me out of the corner of their eyes, wondering what I’m up to. Yeah, you’ll hear it a couple episodes in. My name in the show – they call me Cochise, which is kind of a nickname for my real alien name, which you’ll never get written down. And in season three, you’ll get to know me as something of an ally. So I am a new species of alien that has landed at the end of season two. Well, as we’ve seen in the past two seasons of Falling Skies, all aliens on the show are to be feared, and run from, and shot at.
Can you tell us a bit about your character? So, you’re in the new series of Falling Skies.
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