Caleb Landry Jones on Venice Entry ‘Harvest,’ Auditioning for ‘Star Wars’ and How Luc Besson’s Upcoming ‘Dracula’ is a ‘Touching Story’ About ‘Love Being Ripped Away From You’
variety.comAlex Ritman If anyone had a particularly surreal Venice in 2023, it was Caleb Landry Jones. Not only was the actor on the Lido for barely 24 hours — for the world premiere of Luc Besson’s “DogMan” in which he played a cross-dressing vigilante-thief with a pack of canines at his command — but the 34-year-old had effectively been yanked from a muddy film set on the top of a mountain in Scotland early one morning, flown to Italy, put in a shirt, ferried from press conference to red carpet, flown back to Scotland the next day and driven to the top of a mountain to shoot a crucial scene. “I was in Venice, but all I was thinking about was this really important scene I had to do,” he says. “And I kept falling asleep in the screening and trying to wake up and Luc would be like, ‘Man, it’s ok, go to sleep,’” While in Venice, Landry Jones also created an air of intrigue and mystery by speaking throughout in a Scottish accent.
During the “DogMan” press conference, Besson said his star was “in character,” and while he claims he never used to consider himself a method actor, having spoken to others he’s since come to appreciate he probably is one. “I don’t do everything my character does, but I do a lot of things that are going to trick me into thinking like it and enough to fake it,” he tells Variety, pointing to an interview with Nicolas Cage talking about “Ghost Rider” in which the actor said he’d surrounded himself in ancient trinkets to make him feel more like the character (he says he particularly enjoyed the fact Cage admitted he “didn’t know whether it worked or not”).
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