 Jones 's role as Hitchcock required him to spend four hours each day being made up with prosthetic makeup and a fatsuit , and he did daily twenty @-@ minute vocal exercises to imitate Hitchcock 's distinctive speech . In a December 2012 interview with The Scotsman , Jones said " [ Hitchcock 's ] voice was so beautiful . There 's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves . Then there is everything he ingested – the cigar smoking and drinking that 's imprinted on his voice . And everywhere he lived ; you can hear cockney London , California , and a plummy received pronunciation in that voice " . 
