I have been in awe of Doug Jones for a while, and here's why: I saw a preview for Pan's Labyrinth that had El Hombre Palido moving his eyeball hands around, and I sat bolt upright and said, "My god, THAT'S THE SAME ACTOR WHO PLAYED ABE IN HELLBOY!"

"How the hell do you figure that?" said my friend. "You can't see his face in either one!"

"His hands," I explained, trying to explain with movements of my Mickey-Mouse fingers. "DId you see the way he moves them? It's DEFINITELY the same guy."*

I had to look him up just for that. If I can recognize you when you're covered in makeup BY THE WAY YOUR HANDS MOVE, you deserve some kind of laudation.


*I can even tell when they're using one of the mechanical pinky-bending hands instead of Jones's in Hellboy.