Doug jones actor voice11/7/2023 ![]() ![]() There was enough goofy in her face that it was hilarious, and I got the giggles. I got the giggles because she didn’t look like the Bette that I knew from the album covers and from other movies. She had her eyebrows made up over – they were gone – and these little buck teeth, and those little tiny lips painted on, and that big red wig. She would hold my hand and reassure me that everything was fine. ![]() With Bette, I got the giggles because she was inches from my face, yelling at me, but in between takes, she was so good-humored. Right out of the gate, I was working with the three biggest stars. It was a cute little scene that established the ex-relationship and what happened after with Sarah. And then, Sarah was like, “Oh, hey,” and cuddled up next to me, after Bette walked away. Winifred had some words for Billy, and she got in my face. It was in a park where the witches and I were reconnoitering, after I had been chasing the kids for a while, unsuccessfully. My first scene, my first night on Hocus Pocus, was a night shoot outdoors and was a scene that was actually cut from the film. JONES: With the first movie, it was a fake it till you make it kind of thing. What are the memories you have of working with the Sanderson sisters trio? You talked about being able to have conversations with them as peers, but what was it like to share scenes with them in the first film, compared to this film? We’re all 30 years older, and have matured and come through a lot of life in that time, so there was a lot to chat about on set. That was a big difference that I noticed, and was very happy about. I was still like, “Oh, my gosh, there they are again.” But now, with the 30 years that have passed, my career has gone places, and thankfully, I’ve been very blessed with what’s happened in my life, that they were treating me, and we were interacting more as peers. Oh, my gosh!” Coming back, you never lose your starstruck-ness, really, or I don’t. I was just like, “I can’t believe I’m on the same set with these people. ![]() I was such a huge fan of Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, who had done The Kathy & Mo Show and Sister Act, at that time. The difference between 30 years, working with them, is that I was starstruck the first time. I got to reunite with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, which was so dreamy. I thought, “I wanna do that again.” So, when that call came, I was excited to get to do all of that again. But Billy was a character that was human-ish, with humor, goofiness, fun, and a family friendly vibe, who was headed toward a happy ending. When you’ve had a career like mine, and you’re glued into so much rubber and glue, and contact lenses and mechanics, and you can’t go to the bathroom with your hand claws on, I don’t always look forward to going into work because I know the day I have ahead of me. There were more layers to him and I wanted more backstory. I’ve been asked, in many interviews over the years, and I’ve been acting for 36 years now, is there any one character I’ve played that I would love to revisit again? And Billy Butcherson was always my number one answer. They knew better than to not have it all work out because Billy Butcherson had to come back. It fit right in the hiatus between Season 4 and 5 of Star Trek, so I was like, “Okay, it’s gonna happen. My biggest worry was that, because I’m in Toronto a lot of the year now, filming Star Trek: Discovery, and I thought, “If the film shoot overlaps, I’ll be devastated.” But it didn’t. We want you back.” I was like, “Okay.” That was the call that I was waiting for, and it was so exciting. “ But it kept happening, again and again and again, until I finally got a call from Ralph Winter, one of our other producers, saying, “Here’s our filming schedule. They kept asking, “Are you in this new sequel?” I was like, “There’s no such movie. So then, I started getting messages from everyone, all over social media. They were really good-looking posters that looked official. I didn’t hear anything about it again until rumors started popping up, with the great Photoshopping skills of the fans that were making posters. I was like, “Oh, my gosh, that’s great.” And then, it was crickets. David Kirschner, one of the producers on both movies, was there, and he said that he’d been pitching this new idea to Disney for a sequel. I’d heard about such a sequel at our 20-year anniversary screening at the Disney lot in Burbank, nine years ago. I was surprised that it was actually happening. What was it like to get the news that you’d be doing so? How did you find out? Were you surprised that almost 30 years later, this finally actually happened?ĭOUG JONES: I was not surprised that there was a sequel in the works. Collider: I was so thrilled to find out that you were returning to this character for the sequel. ![]()
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