Del Toro loves his latest film so much that he’s taking a break to savor it.
What’s your favorite Guillermo del Toro movie? Is it The Devil’s Backbone? Maybe it’s Pan’s Labyrinth? Well, Del Toro’s favorite Del Toro film is The Shape of Water!
“I’ll tell you, it doesn’t get more personal than ‘Shape of Water’ for me. I am the proudest of it,” Del Toro just told Collider. “It’s my favorite movie that I’ve done. You work very hard to get the movie out there and have it seen, and the movie does connect, beautifully, with an audience. It has an enormous heart. I’ve seen it 190 million times and I still cry in three or four moments in the movie. It’s even more than that…I love it. I call it ‘a fairytale for troubled times’ because it’s an ointment against the world, where we’re waking up every morning with worse news.”
Del Toro continued, explaining why he’s taking a year off from directing in the wake of The Shape of Water‘s release, “When ‘Devil’s Backbone’ was touring, I was busy in post-production on ‘Blade 2, and it shouldn’t happen like that. I was so proud of that movie, and I didn’t enjoy it and I didn’t maximize my time with it. Movies are like children. They grow up and they leave you, and they don’t come back home. They go to university and don’t call. So, I wanted to travel with ‘Shape of Water.”
In the Creature From the Black Lagoon-inspired love story, “In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.”
Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones also star.
The film opens in limited release on December 1 before expanding on December 8.
