Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
With most of these BTS pics I find a little magic in imagining I was there when they were taken, using them to try to construct the vibe of that moment in time. Is it serious, is it jovial, is it stressful? All that adds up to a mini-fantasy in my mind of hanging out with Humphrey Bogart on the set of Casablanca or Spielberg as the shark isn’t working and he’s having to figure out something else to shoot or goofing off with James Dean and Natalie Wood between takes on Rebel Without A Cause.
Today’s picture, however, is different. I was actually on the set of Hellboy 2 on this day. I saw Doug Jones in his Angel of Death make-up, heard the chorus of mini-servos revving every time the eyeballs on his wings blinked, heard Guillermo del Toro geek the fuck out about this spectacular design.
So, I can tell you that Doug was able to see through one of the cracks in the flat, bone-like face and that wire you see in the below picture was to keep the weight of the animatronic wings off of Doug’s back. That thing was HEAVY.
It’s a bit of a different experience, but I can say that set was super impressive and the photo you see isn’t tricking you into thinking that make-up was rad as hell. It matches my memory of that visit very closely.
Left to right, you have make-up artist Thom Floutz, Doug Jones as the Angel of Death and director Guillermo del Toro. Thanks to my buddy Kevin McTurk and super cool Mike Elizalde of Spectral Motion for sending this one along. Click to enlargen.
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Tomorrow’s pic has wood!
-Eric Vespe
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