Billy Butcherson

Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow was like, oh, I love him.

So I got to channel a little bit of Dick Van Dyke's Cockney-accented chimney sweep mixed with a little bit of Ray Bolger's The Scarecrow when I played Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus.

Welcome to the American Cinematheque podcast, the show where guests program the film festival of their lives.

Joining us today is an actor who you know from films like The Shape of Water, Hellboy, and Pan's Labyrinth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

I think one of the first, I was doing a convention in Atlanta, I think it might have been Dragon Con, way back in like 09.

And that was when I had two cosplayers come to my table for the first time ever.

One had done himself up as Billy Butcherson from Hocus Pocus.

And it was a really good makeup job.