![]() Because they were already done with the shoot, and they just needed some visual bits to fill in that moment we were talking about where she's recounting who was killed in the orchid hunts. That's why I had Spike Jonze all to myself. All I had was a wig and a beard that made me kind of like I had been out in the wild for a long time without a razor.I got offered that weeks before it opened in theatres, just weeks, because that was re-shoots. I'm a skinny guy, so I started shivering. Spike Jonze directed, and we had two stunt guys clubbing me to death over and over again with fake rain falling on me, which was colder than ice. So that was a one-day shoot for me that was all about me. And they show a long clip of Augustus Margary, in the rainforest of somewhere, getting beaten to death by poachers who have stolen his orchids and now have run off leaving him for dead. There's a scene where some of the book is being read aloud by Meryl Streep's voice while Nicolas Cage is reading it, thinking, "How am I going to make a movie out of this crap?" So she's recounting all of the people who have died out there in the field on their orchid hunts. That was a brilliant film by the way, one of the best pieces of writing I've ever seen. He's historically look up-able, and he is referred to in the book that the movie was being adapted from. Augustus Margary was an orchid hunter from real life. It's very exciting but still it's nice to go to 7-11 and still be me. I've never been thrust in the public eye this much with me, Doug Jones, as name recognition which is happening now, which is new for me. Finishing Fantastic Four and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) coming out with these Golden Globes and Oscar nominations has been a press frenzy for me. I guess I became a speck on the radar then, but now it's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Silver Surfer. But Hellboy (2004) was the one that had real staying power, in terms of its notoriety and the size of the role I had. But I was basically actor of the day and I didn't get much recognition, and guest-starring on TV shows that come and go and commercials that come and go. (2002), Three Kings (1999), and they were even things with my own face in them. ![]() And I did notable roles before, Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus (1993) which became like a Halloween classic over here on the Disney Channel, and I had smaller parts in lots of films like Batman Returns (1992), Mystery Men (1999), Adaptation. I was completely under the radar until Hellboy (2004) came along. I've been acting for 20 years now and I've been under the radar. For the last 20 years of my life, I've been wearing something unrecognizable.
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