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The great Doug Jones joined me on 4/20/2012 to talk a bit about his movie career, and what he's working on in the near future. Doug has also worked as a contortionist. "You'd be surprised how many times that comes into play in commercials. They'll want somebody to hold a box of Tide funny or something. I once squished into a box for a commercial for relaxed fit jeans." He is nearing 100 TV commercials now, including the McDonald's character he made famous around the world, Mac Tonight. After a hitch in theater in Indiana, he moved to Los Angeles in 1985, and has not been out of work since - he's acted in over 25 films, many television series (Including the award-winning Buffy The Vampire Slayer, his episode 'Hush' garnering two Emmy nominations) over 90 commercials and music videos with the likes of Madonna, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Marilyn Manson. But it is his sensitive and elegant performance as 'Abe Sapien' in Hellboy, which stormed to the top of the US box office ! in the spring of 2004, that brought him an even higher profile and much praise from both audiences and critics. In 2005 he renewed his association with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro when he starred in the title role of 'Pan' in del Toro's Spanish language fantasy/horror project El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth). He also has a cameo in the film as 'The Pale Man', a gruesome creature with a penchant for eating children. Working once more under heavy prosthetics in both roles, he also was ...

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