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Gates McFadden Investigates: Who do you think you are?

Episode 306: Doug Jones

Gates McFadden Investigates: Who do you think you are?

NacelleCast Studios

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5738 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Actor Doug Jones, who plays Saru in Star Trek: Discovery, sits down with me to talk about his life growing up in the midwest United States, how his illustrious acting career came to be, and the acting techniques that helped him become not only a versatile actor, but one of Guillermo Del Toro’s favorites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode features the remarkable actor, Mime, Doug Jones, who played the non-human character Saru in Star Trek

0:39.6

Discovery. He is a favorite actor of Guillermo del Toro, probably because he completely transforms

0:45.9

from one acting job to the next. His list of acting credits is impressive. Here's what I like

0:52.0

most about Doug. He is a polite gentleman coupled with a crazy

0:56.7

clown. His body is graceful and distinct, and he knows how to manipulate it. He can turn it

1:03.0

into something beautiful or menacing. He can play weird and odd or heroic, human or creature.

1:10.2

His imagination coordinates with his physicality beautifully in a manner most of us could only dream of.

1:16.6

He will charm you with his story of how it all came to be.

1:20.2

Take a listen.

1:23.8

So I want to just start like as if we were sitting down or meeting on a plane, you know what I mean, where you have these talks?

1:29.3

Yes.

1:30.3

Oh, I love airplane talks, actually.

1:32.3

Me too.

1:33.3

So what was it like growing up in Indiana?

1:36.3

Do you have siblings?

1:37.3

Talk about some stuff like that.

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