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. He also talked about what fans can expect from Season 5 of Star Trek: Discovery, and said that he’ll be returning to What We Do in the Shadows.Ĭollider: I was so thrilled to find out that you were returning to this character for the sequel.
During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Jones talked about how he found out that a sequel was actually finally going to happen, why Billy Butcherson was always the character that he wanted to revisit, the memories he has of working with the Sanderson sisters on the first film, getting to know his character better, the line he asked to be changed, how the look of the character came about, why the prosthetics process never really gets any easier, and who he thinks Billy Butcherson could have been, if he’d never met Winifred.
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