Doug Jones - "Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army" Movie - Shooting Report

A Fish Out Of Water ?

SO IT BEGINS :

Here I sit in an odiferous internet cafe in downtown Budapest, Hungary .... that smell of cologne and body odor .... mmmmm

I arrived here Thursday May 17th to begin my 6 month stay for the production of "Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army". I am very excited to be reprising one of my favorite characters, Abe Sapien the blue fishman. Along with him, I am also tackling a couple of other heavily made-up characters : The Chamberlain, a doorkeeper for the King of the alternate world, and The Angel Of Death, kind of self explanatory, but not to be feared, as she (yes, she) is SUCH a cool moment in the film that will leave you wondering when you might see her again in films to come.

So far, all we are doing for a couple of weeks is fittings and light rehearsals. So the rest of my time has been spent walking about the city like a zombie, watching fountains with music playing in my walkman like a zombie, a little reading with a cafe latte in front of me, sleeping more than should be allowed, and basically drooling on myself while staring at my hotel room walls..... like a zombie. Heaven I tell you, especially after the non-stop press and events schedule over the last 5 months.

LANGUAGE BARRIER :

This is one of those rare moments when I don’t mind telling you what a great mime I am. I wish you could have seen my performance as I acted out becoming a regular at this net cafe to get the cheaper hourly rate. Arms a flappin’, face a goin’, acting like I was coming in the door again on different days, dear me I was good. And yes, I got my pre-paid 10 hour card, bless that little confused lady’s heart.

TECHNO BARRIER :

They’ve put me up at possibly the swankiest hotel I’ve ever been in ever, The Boscolo New York Palace Hotel. Anything with "Palace" in the title should give you a clue. And my junior suite is where the prince might stay .... absolutely lovely, gold swirly things, chandelier things, and a bathroom I could bowl in (yeah, that’s how a classy fellow would describe it). So something as simple as a TV remote shouldn’t have thrown me, right ? Wanting to get a jump on my Euro-MTV, and all kinds of shows dubbed in Hungarian, I sat there pressing the power button. Nothing. Again. Nothing. This went on for around 6 minutes until I called the front desk, telling them I had a defective remote. When the nice little maintenence man showed up with his tool box, he took the remote, pressed something and the TV came on immediately. What ? Apparently, ANY button turns it on EXCEPT the power button .... no no, THAT is reserved for turning the power OFF. So had I ventured out and pressed, say, ANY other button on the remote, the TV would have turned on ..... without standing in front of a man with a tool box and a mocking grin on his face. Next, I’ll be calling the front desk because I can’t wipe myself.

I’ll be in touch when I can, and you can always keep tabs on me at my official website run by the lovely Webmaster Helen in Scotland :

http://thedougjonesexperience.com/

ALSO !! "PAN’S LABYRINTH" NOW ON DVD EVERYWHERE !!!!!

There’s Hungarian Love !!!! ---- Your Dougie