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“I think he had a very sexy look to him, and that was pretty much thanks to the design of the costuming, the wig with the rockstar hair, and the bone structure of the prosthetic dead guy skin that was put on me, was really nice and sharp and angular,” says Jones. Over the years, Billy Butcherson has been referred to as a “dateable” type of zombie. “I’m glad they ended up going with more of a period look,” says Jones, adding that it adds to the “timeless” feel of the movie. Of the costume, Jones remembers that his look almost took inspiration from Michael Jackson - the “uniform” kind of outfit, with epaulets on the shoulders - as he was incredibly popular at the time. “The best artists in the world have had their hands on me and transformed me into different things.” “I was baffled at the speed at which they did it,” Jones says, adding that watching the artistry involved is a process he always finds stunning.

For the hands, they were just gloves that he would slip on. Morphing into Billy Butcherson only took an hour and a half each day, Jones explains, as makeup artists Tony Gardner and Margaret Prentice used a prosthetics piece for the face, neck and collarbone that was one piece, pre-molded and pre-painted.

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“The movie is more known worldwide than it ever has been and with a bigger fan base than it’s ever had before.” “It didn’t open very big and just got bigger with time, television airings and home video, people’s DVD collections, and now the fans that grew up with us are having kids of their own so we have a second wave of fans coming,” the actor continues. Of his expectations of Hocus Pocus, Jones recalls that the film had the opposite effect to what he thought would happen.

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“The first agent that I had knew that I was bendable, flexible, with the contorting thing on my resume and also the miming work, so that meant physical tom-foolery and often that comes with costumes and makeup so I was submitted for lots of roles that involved heavy costuming and makeup.”īefore Hocus Pocus, Jones had only appeared in one studio movie, Batman Returns. Now over a 30-year career thus far, he has transformed into various monsters, creatures and characters such as the amphibian man in The Shape of Water and the Mac Tonight Guy in a long-running McDonalds campaign, as well as performing in many roles where he appears looking more like “himself,” such as Adaptation. He was drafted into a mime troupe in college, which then ignited his performance career. Jones adds that later on at parties, he would sometimes contort his legs behind his head, which garnered various shocking reactions.

“I wanted to be one of them,” he recalls.

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“I thought we were going to have a huge box office hit and that my face might be on some lunch boxes and things, and some toys, and that it would fade out with time, like most movies might,” says Jones, who as a child was heavily influenced by the “funny people” he saw on TV and in movies growing up, especially those characters who weren’t the romantic leads. He did not anticipate we’d still be talking about this movie in the year 2020. “I’ve learned the difference now and the similarities that dialogue is dialogue whether it’s verbal or not,” Jones tells The Hollywood Reporter, days before a Hocus Pocus reunion, with stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, is set to take place 27 years after the movie first released.