doug jones played the faun in pan's labyrinth.
who plays the faun in pan's labyrinth?
doug jones
bullet::::- doug jones as the faun and the pale man. as the faun, jones guides ofelia to the fantasy world. as the pale man, he plays a grotesque monster with an appetite for children. jones had previously worked with del toro on "mimic" and "hellboy", and said the director sent him an email saying, "you must be in this film. no one else can play this part but you." jones responded enthusiastically to an english translation of the script, but then found out the film was in spanish, which he did not speak. jones says he was "terrified" and del toro suggested learning the script phonetically, but jones rejected this, preferring to learn the words himself. he said, "i really, really buckled down and committed myself to learning that word for word and i got the pronunciation semi-right before i even went in," using the five hours a day he spent getting the costume and make-up on to practice the words. del toro later decided to dub jones with the voice of pablo adán, "an authoritative theatre actor", but jones's efforts remained valuable because the voice actor was able to match his delivery with jones's mouth movements. jones's dual casting is intended to suggest that the pale man (along with the toad) is either a creation of the faun, or the faun himself in another form.
pan's labyrinth
mercedes, having been discovered to be a spy, tries to escape with ofelia, but they are caught. ofelia, mistaken as a traitor, is locked in her bedroom, while mercedes is taken to be interrogated and tortured. mercedes frees herself, stabs vidal, and rejoins the rebels. the faun, having changed his mind about giving ofelia a chance to perform the third task, returns and tells her to bring her baby brother into the labyrinth to complete it. ofelia complies and vidal pursues her as the rebels launch an attack on the outpost. ofelia meets the faun at the centre of the labyrinth. the faun suggests drawing a few drops of the baby's blood, as completing the third task and opening the portal to the underworld requires the blood of an innocent. as ofelia refuses to harm her brother, vidal finds her talking to the faun, whom he cannot see. the faun leaves, and vidal takes the baby from ofelia's arms before shooting her.
pan's labyrinth