Doug Jones on Hellboy 2

Having spent several months in 2003 in Prague shooting Hellboy (under the gills as Hellboy's best mate, the fish-man Abe Sapien), Jones is back in Eastern Europe. He's in Budapest until late October, working on a five-and-a-half-month labor of love for the sequel, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army.

"It is an even bigger production," he says. "The original production in Prague was from start to finish longer but I was on it for a shorter time. That was a three-month commitment for me because my role was smaller: Abe Sapien dipped out -- for the last third of the film, you didn't see him. In this one, he is a major player from start to finish.