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Popcornbiz :Can Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman Raise "Hellboy 3"?
Okay, if we’re at the stage in the superhero trend where studios are even mulling over a Hawkman movie, can we maybe bring back Hellboy, one of the evil-fighters who helped jump-start the craze, first?
The two films based on comic book creator Mike Mignola’s sardonic, supernatural-battling hellspawn with the sawed-off horns and stone fist of Doom performed admirably on the big screen, both critically and commercially, buoyed by the visionary direction of monster-loving Guillermo del Toro and the subtly shaded performance of leading man Ron Perlman. But somehow in the current superhero box office gold rush, Hellboy’s slipped back into the shadows.
PopcornBiz put the question directly to del Toro and Perlman themselves: Will there ever be a “Hellboy 3?”
“I don't know,” sighs del Toro, who’s ramping up production on his next epic, the monsters vs. giant robots flick “Pacific Rim” after spending many years planning a film he won’t ultimately helm: “The Hobbit.” “I wish I could answer that, because we wanted to finish the story, but there is no screenplay yet. And we're all getting older!”
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Del Toro says that if there’s ever some forward momentum on a new Hellboy film, he won’t be interested in merely producing a follow-up or rebooting the franchise with new stars. “For me, my Hellboy is Ron in any fashion. I'm not interested in Hellboy if it's not Ron and myself.”
Perlman, too, seems stymied about his future in the red skin. “I don't know whether or not there's a future for 'Hellboy,’” he admits, but he’s holding out hope. “I would really like another shot at it, because Guillermo kind of set it up to be a trilogy, and a lot of the things that we're done in 1 and 2 would've been answered in 3 and in a very kind of theatrical, sort of larger than life, epic manner. So it would kind of be a great shame if we never got a chance to see the resolve.”
“I kind of know where Guillermo was going to take him – not specifically, but in broad strokes and it's mind-blowing,” adds Perlman. “It would be a shame for the people who invested in the first two to not get a chance to see that because there's an oracle. Hellboy has a destiny that's non-negotiable and that needs to have been played out, and that was only going to get played out in the last of the films.”
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On Top of the World with Hellboy Ron Perlman
Jordan Riefe
After two Hellboy movies, actor Ron Perlman is on top of the world. In fact, as you'll see, his dreams are coming true. No stranger to working in make-up, behind the mask of a character, Perlman was the right person the bring Hellboy to live-action life on the big screen back in 2004. Now Perlman returns to the character made famous by Mike Mignola in the comic book series and director Guillermo del Toro on the big screen for Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
With Hellboy II storming into theaters, Ron Perlman had a blast with the press in L.A. sharing stories of life, Hellboy, and how his world is just ducky now that his dreams are finally being realized.
Ron Perlman on how Hellboy has changed since the first movie:
"I don’t know if you’ve seen the picture, but it will be interspecies babies - two. And I’m just as curious about what they’re going to look like as the next guy. The beautiful thing about Hellboy is that he’s set, he doesn’t change. He was incredibly well articulated from the get-go the minute Guillermo decided to put the words 'shooting script' on Hellboy 1, and his circumstances change greatly. The forces at work, trying to alter his paths change dramatically, but the heart of the guy is luckily set in stone. I don’t believe he feels any real need to change. He’s always going to be the same, only the circumstances change. In the second film of course the circumstances are that he’s not living with Liz and it’s really not going well and he’s looking at the idea of what his limitations are as a mate and as a man in a relationship with something that he can’t afford to lose, because if he loses Liz he loses his reason to live. So he starts drinking and he happens to have to save the world while he’s a little bit buzzed. I kind of like that aspect, but all purely circumstantial. The heart of the guy I think is identical to the one we created in the first movie."
Perlman on how he tapped into the sensitivity of the character:
"I happen to have a very strong feminine side, I don’t know. I think maybe I say that jokingly, but I’ve been incredibly sensitive to all of the knocks I’ve taken, and I’m not unique. Everybody takes them. Everybody deals with them in their own way. My way of making things right that were dreadfully wrong at various periods of my life is I get a chance to exercise them through acting. And it’s one of the joys of being an actor is to be able to look at these things that remind you of chapters in your life and kind of recreate them for yourself so that - You know, it’s almost like therapy. You look at something really long and hard, and you explore it really long and hard, until it’s like, ‘Whew, okay we just got past that.’ For me, acting is like therapy. But there’s nothing that Hellboy feels that I haven’t felt in some measure at some point in my life, and I just try to draw on all of that and - that, plus the fact that he so evocatively and so specifically articulated by the author, by Guillermo, that it’s pretty clear what you have to do in playing him. That’s a true gift. You don’t always get that in a screenplay. One of the many gifts of working with this true genius."
On how he views the make-up side of the character:
"It depends. I mean, every job is different. Every job has a different set of givens and a different set of circumstantial things that build up to all of the decisions about how the guy walks, how the guy talks, what he sounds like when he speaks, what sign is he. I try to create as full - It’s a secret. It’s something only I know, but the more specific I can get the more specific I think that the behavior of the character will become. When you’re putting on a mask, you really have to kind of wait to see what the guy who designed the character has done physically before you begin to make those decisions, because what he looks like is going to definitely inform all of those things I mentioned. In the case of Hellboy, it was clear that this is just a bad-ass, just a total G - you know, G, as in gangsta. I just dug and dug, and dug down some more, try to bottom voice and my most swaggerest of walks and, viola, there he was."
On working behind masks:
"When I was first starting out in this business, I was really quite uncomfortable in my own skin. And luckily the good lord provided these roles almost in chronological order. First, Quest for Fire, which was mask acting, then Name of the Rose, which was mask acting, and then Beauty and the Beast, all happened during a period of my life where I was more comfortable behind a mask than I would’ve been naked, like this. It freed me up. It made me freer because it was no longer me. It was a transformed version of me, which was very abstract in relation to my own persona. So it made acting more possible and more freeing. These days I’m in my late 50s and I’m quite comfortable in my own skin and I no longer need the mask as much as I used to. So it becomes, ‘How much pleasure am I going to take in playing a masked character?’ And when the character is Hellboy, the answer is, ‘Man, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of other guys that wish they were me.’ And this is a real honor to play this character because the heart of the character is truly mythic, truly legendary and epic in scope, and he’s a phenomenal character to spend time with."
Ron Perlman on his sci-fi work:
"In regards to science fiction, I have done a tremendous amount of work in science fiction. It’s all coincidental. I’ve never been in the position financially to ever say no to work, and since that was the work that came mostly, that was the work I took. My own personal taste, I watch the Turner Classic movie channel. My thing is old black and white movies. I’m a freak for John Ford and George Stevens and Raoul Walsh, Gary Grant, Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper, and Billy Wilder. When it’s my time, that’s what I find myself doing, and I’m obsessed with the old studio days and the beginnings of cinema, especially in the United States. But clearly around the world as well, Kurisowa, Faustbinder, Wedmueller - I’m leaving out so many of my heroes, but those are my personal tastes."
On whether he worries about getting typecast in this genre:
"I’m sure I did. [laughs] I’m feeling so carefree these days that I don’t remember ever worrying about anything. I mean my life is just ducky right now. The things that have happened to me have gone so far beyond anything I might have dreamed or imagined that I stopped dreaming and imagining. I just basically wake up every day and take what the good lord gave me because it’s pretty trippy. It’s pretty trippy that we were able to do Hellboy with a guy who’s basically lived on the fringes pretty much his whole career, never been invited to the mainstream party, and sort of backed his way in with the good graces of Guillermo del Toro fighting for me for seven years. So it’s all like... it’s phenomenal."
Ron Perlman on why his life is so ducky right now:
"My family is doing good, everybody is firing on all cylinders. We’re a family of artists and my son has just gotten into his college of choice and he wants to have a career in music. My daughter just made her first album and she’s in Hellboy and wants to be an actress. She’s firing on all cylinders. My wife is a fashion designer and she does amazingly remarkable. Guillermo pointed it out to me that I’m the least talented member of the Perlman family and he’s absolutely right I’m far and away the least talented. But things are going really well. I've got this new TV series on FX, which the writing is absolutely superb and the character is unlike anything I’ve ever attempted before. Work is coming and all of the things that I ever dreamed about are really beginning to happen. So when your dreams come true, how does it get any better than that?"
-- Jordan Riefe
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Perlman on Hellboy II Success, Sequel & Hobbit
Source: Scott Huver
July 19, 2008
What a difference a week made for Ron Perlman.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army racked up $34.5 million in its opening weekend to take the top slot at the box office – not bad for a sequel that had been nixed by the first film's original studio (despite "Hellboy's" modest profit in theaters and major success on DVD), only to find a new home at Universal Pictures following the critical and commercial success of director Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.
And just like that, the demonic paranormal investigator created by writer-artist Mike Mignola that Perlman so relishes portraying (despite enduring a layer of heavy prosthetics) is a film franchise superstar.
ComingSoon.net caught up with Perlman just days after "Hellboy II's" hit debut, and he gave us his insight on its success, a possible third film, and even the chance of another collaboration with del Toro on the fertile ground of Middle Earth.
CS: How gratifying was it to see the success of the film in the opening weekend after going to a different studio? Do you feel somewhat vindicated?
Perlman: Incredibly gratifying. I mean, that's rarified air. When you get to be my age you realize that it's not only something that you never take for granted, but a tiny little fraction of those of us who throw in to this adventure ever get a chance to experience something like that. It's so overwhelming that I can't even or haven't even begun to take it in. Luckily I'm doing "Sons of Anarchy" and I jumped right from the frying pan into the fire. Yesterday we shot six scenes and so I didn't have time to think about much, but learning my lines and delivering them. But I can't tell you how vindicated we all feel and what a tough struggle it was for Guillermo [del Toro] to get the movie made with me and seven years of struggling. We got the first one out to modest success and we got a second one out and the stories – you could fill volumes just talking about the stories of what it took to get that movie made and here we are. The world has given us this cosmic hug. It feels really good.
CS: Is there a third one that's in the offing? Has that been talked about?
Perlman: Well, I certainly think that it's not without the realm of possibility at this point. I can only imagine the discussions that are taking place in some other dark room right now.
CS: Del Toro is going to be busy with "The Hobbit" for a while. So what's that mean if they want another "Hellboy?"
Perlman: I know Guillermo has a very compelling idea for how to end the trilogy and I hope that he gets a chance to tell it and I hope that he gets a chance to do it exactly as he wants to do it. That's all I can say to that. I'm not privy to anything because we didn't want to start counting our chickens before they hatched. So none of those discussions have ever been had. We just talked about what we were going to eat when we got together and had dinner and stuff like that.
CS: Has he talked to you at all about being in "The Hobbit?"
Perlman: No. He has not, except to say that when I first saw him after it had been announced that he was going to be in New Zealand, I said, "I'm going to miss you, pal." He goes [imitating del Toro] "Oh, no you're NOT!" That's all I know [laughs].
CS: At Universal there's an exhibit of memorabilia from their classic movies. They put Hellboy along there with the wonderful Universal Classics. Is that a source of pride for you to be up there with "All's Quiet on the Western Front" or "To Kill a Mockingbird?"
Perlman: Oh, my God. It's almost tripped out to even take in for me because I'm such a movie freak. I'm such a devotee…Clearly, I don't think that there's anymore noble art form than cinema. I'm just such a fan. The people who have come before us in the '20s and '30s and '40s and '50s and '60s and '70s and '80s and '90s and the first ten years of the 20th century, those are amazing artists. So if you're saying that we now have something that takes a place in that quilt, in that history then wow. What kid wouldn't dream about that when he's been pounding the streets of New York with a picture and resume in his hand and having doors slammed in his face? What kid wouldn't dream of that?
CS: Right across from Gregory Peck in "To Kill A Mockingbird" is Ron Perlman in "Hellboy."
Perlman: My God. That must be a mistake.
CS: How has your career been because you've been around a long time?
Perlman: Well, it's had its moments. I've had these very, very high high's and very, very low lows. I've gone sometimes two and three years between phone calls and then when the phone call came it would be something so unbelievably tasty and phenomenal like "Name of the Rose" or "Enemy at the Gates," things like that which were really classy and incredibly intelligent and smart with distinguished filmmakers and great roles. Then that would be over and the phone didn't ring for two or three years.
CS: Were you anxious during that time or did you wait to see what would happen?
Perlman: It's a combination of both. I wait as long as I can until I start feeling anxious and usually that has something to do with the mortgage. When the money runs out then I start panicking and I've had a lot of that in my sorted history, but at the end of the day I'm having a good week right now!
CS: And we're going to see you next on FX's series "Sons of Anarchy?"
Perlman: I've been basically working without a day off now since the beginning of April and before that I was lying on a couch hoping to recover from "Hellboy II" which took me about six months, catching my breath. That was the hardest shoot that I'd ever participated in.
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Perlman steps out from behind his masks
By David Germain
Associated Press
Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:05 a.m. MDT
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career.
Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," says he was able to put more into his acting when he was disguised as a caveman, a hunchbacked monk or the homely half of TV's "Beauty and the Beast."
"I probably appreciated mask acting more when I was a younger man than I do these days, because I wasn't real comfortable in my own skin in the early going," Perlman said. "Putting that few inches of rubber between me and the camera sort of freed me up to be more me than I was able to be as me.
"Little by little as I've gotten older, those concerns have kind of melted away," the 58-year-old Perlman said. "I'm much more comfortable in my own skin, but I thank God for those mask roles in the early days. They allowed me to kind of get an expansiveness and freeness that I probably wouldn't have had otherwise."
Perlman never set out to become a contemporary Lon Chaney as he moved from live theater into film and television in the early 1980s. His first big-screen role put him on that path, though, as he played one of the prehistoric men in Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Quest for Fire." Annaud later cast Perlman as the hunchback who winds up burned at the stake in "The Name of the Rose." Perlman starred as one of TV's strangest heartthrobs in "Beauty and the Beast," playing a noble, refined man-lion who lived underground and had an unusual romance with a beautiful attorney (Linda Hamilton) from the surface world.
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"That's a testament to just his talent and how he loves playing characters, that he can do it under even inches of rubber makeup. That he can still let a character shine through when it's even that much harder," said Selma Blair, who plays Hellboy's fiery girlfriend. "No one else could do it. That's why he winds up the one under all that rubber."
Perlman, who grew up in New York City, began his professional career on the New York stage after earning a master's degree in fine arts.
His true face has appeared many times on screen in such flicks as "Alien: Resurrection," "Enemy at the Gates," "The City of Lost Children" and the Academy Award-winning short "Two Soldiers." Yet Perlman is best-known for creature-feature parts, an animal-human hybrid in Marlon Brando's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" or a Nosferatu-like alien in "Star Trek: Nemesis."
An odd sort of typecasting led to Perlman's repeated on-screen masquerades.
"Whatever it is that sets you off in the business, you get on the short list of being asked to be that guy for the rest of your life," Perlman said. "With me, it was acting under heavy makeup."
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He figures that's what led Guillermo del Toro to casting him — with his real face — in the Mexican filmmaker's directing debut, the 1993 horror drama "Cronos."
Del Toro had been working in special effects and makeup, honing his talents at creating the sort of amazing monsters he would present in "Pan's Labyrinth" and the "Hellboy" movies.
"He was watching a lot of the guys who worked in special-effects makeup, Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff and myself," Perlman said. "Probably I was invited to be in 'Cronos' more as a kind of good-luck charm than because I was right for the movie. Because I was completely wrong for the movie, but I think he just wanted me around, like you keep an old shoe for the comfort aspect."
Perlman turned into a keeper for del Toro, who cast him in his action tale "Blade II" and waged a long campaign to convince Hollywood executives that the actor was the ideal man for 2004's "Hellboy."
When del Toro first got involved with adapting "Hellboy" from the graphic novel, Perlman met with the director over dinner and was told that in a perfect world, he would be the right guy for the part.
"I said, 'Well, we all know we don't live in a perfect world, so let's just go eat and we'll forget about this conversation. Because if you're planning to spend any more than about a hundred-thousand dollars on this movie, you're never going to get me in this role. I'm not going to pass the sniff test,"' Perlman said.
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For years, studio bosses held out for a bigger name to improve the movie's box-office prospects.
Del Toro persisted and eventually won out, casting Perlman as the colossal red-skinned Hellboy, who stomps on evil demons then unwinds with his cigars, cheap beer and menagerie of kittens.
"What I love about Ron is that he has the physical capability of playing a brute of enormous proportions. He's really not that tall, but he's sculpted like a Russian realism statue, with huge hands and a huge head," del Toro said. "There is something of the noblest mammalian proportions in the guy. He's fantastically gifted physically, and then his voice. He has one of the most enveloping, entrancing voices. This is a guy that at lunch can be reciting the menu, and you're fascinated by the ingredients."
While Perlman never set out to become Hollywood's go-to guy for roles behind masks, one of his most-moving experiences as a movie fan came when he first saw Charles Laughton in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
"The most human character who happens also to be a gargoyle that you've ever seen on screen," Perlman said. "I remember how much humanity he was able to evoke with one eye kind of by his left cheek and the other eye above his forehead and this huge hump on his back. Completely obscured by some makeup artists' design, there was all this heart and emotion and pathos. The fact that I kind of have a chance to work in that milieu is purely coincidental but also feels right to me because of the profound effect that had on me.
"I'm kind of lucky. Not that I'm comparing myself to how great Laughton was, but that we're sort of working on the same problems as actors."
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'Hellboy II' star Ron Perlman has a hard-earned cigar
'Hellboy II' star Ron Perlman has a hit film franchise, more coming roles and a fan named Guillermo.
By Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 14, 2008
His face is a triptych of granite-like features. When the camera focuses on Ron Perlman, it captures, with clarity, the sum of his distinguished parts -- the lantern jaw, the deep-set eyes and the high, square forehead.
Perlman is 6 feet 2, which hardly conveys the berth he has occupied on-screen over the years, in movies like 1982's "Quest for Fire," where he played a Neanderthal, and 1995's surrealist French film "City of Lost Children," where he was a tender circus strong man. FOR THE RECORD:
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Ron Perlman: An article in Monday's Calendar section about actor Ron Perlman, star of the film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," indicated that Guillermo del Toro directed the 1997 film "Alien: Resurrection." That film was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. —
The movies, though, have exaggerated his features, so much so that you half-expect to be be lunching with a giant. While physically imposing, the actor who walked into a West Hollywood eatery the other day was not, technically, huge. Wearing jeans and an untucked shirt, Perlman made his way to the table with a slight limp, the result of a broken toe he suffered on the Budapest, Hungary, set of "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," which opened Friday and earned $35,885,000, ranking No. 1 at the box office.
It has been Perlman's semi-obscure fate to exist, on camera, under layers of carefully applied grotesquerie. This includes the TV series "Beauty and the Beast," which gave him a kind of folk fame some 20 years ago.
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" -- in which our hero battles a vengeful prince of darkness, a mammoth troll, flesh-eating tooth fairies and that hellacious army of the subtitle -- required three hours in the makeup chair on a good day, Perlman said, six hours on other days.
But one senses that Perlman has finally found all the artifice to be liberating. No other role has gotten to the core of his personality -- or done nearly so much for his career -- as Hellboy, the benevolent but churlish demon with a blue-collar ethos and freak-show brawn, first shepherded from the pages of Mike Mignola's graphic novels to the big screen in 2004 by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.
It was Perlman's physical resemblance to the comic book Hellboy -- the heavy brow, angular head and imposing presence -- that made him an ideal muse for the director. And with "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," del Toro, riding the wave of his Oscar-winning "Pan's Labyrinth," seems even freer to mine the dichotomy of his main character.
Raising Hellboy
The "Hellboy" legend is a nurture-over-nature paradigm. Hellboy, after all, should have been all evil -- brought to earth by Nazi occultists to be an agent of doom, only to end up working for the good guys at a top-secret government hideout (it's in New Jersey) in the battle against paranormal malevolence.
Down in his messy room of an antechamber, the beast becomes, via the love of his adoptive, government scientist father (John Hurt), both a physically indestructible weapon and peckishly human.
Yes, Hellboy is red, massive and has a tail, but he shaves his horns to fit in. He has a fondness for house cats. He talks like a hard-boiled detective. He watches too much TV and eats a great many pancakes. And his mood is entirely dictated by how things are going with his enduring love Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), the life partner who can morph into a fireball.
As Perlman said of the character: "He's basically just a flailing mass of sentiment and emotion."
Which is why, in "Hellboy II," amid all of del Toro's signature monsters (the "troll market" sequence is dizzying with them), there is a rather remarkable scene in which Hellboy, having had a row with Liz, stands mournfully in the shower, beer in hand, as the Eels song "Beautiful Freak" scores the scene.
"I get chills up my spine thinking about my first reaction to the emotional world that Guillermo explores," Perlman said. ". . . I have trouble capturing his true genius. Because it's so unique and so much unlike what anybody else is grappling with, in any form of culture. You see Guillermo continuing to use kind of the same set pieces and grapple with what is truly monstrous, and it always has this juxtaposition of the conventional human versus the conventional creature/monster -- and what is truly monstrous."
At 58, Perlman is, to be sure, the summer's most unusual comic-book action star, amid a season in which Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man, and the combo platter of Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger are the stars of "The Dark Knight," due later this month.
He is, by contrast, a child of New York in the 1950s who at age 14 had already reached 6-foot-2 and weighed 290 pounds, he said. "A big, fat, gawky kid," he recalled, who would later flunk the physical required to get into the city university Lehman College.
That feeling of outsider-ness no doubt contributed to his fast friendship with del Toro, a comic-book aficionado who waited out some seven years of studio skepticism about the idea of Perlman as the "Hellboy" lead, taking development meetings with a clay sculpture of Perlman as the character.
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On Top of the World with Hellboy Ron Perlman
Jordan Riefe
After two Hellboy movies, actor Ron Perlman is on top of the world. In fact, as you'll see, his dreams are coming true. No stranger to working in make-up, behind the mask of a character, Perlman was the right person the bring Hellboy to live-action life on the big screen back in 2004. Now Perlman returns to the character made famous by Mike Mignola in the comic book series and director Guillermo del Toro on the big screen for Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
With Hellboy II storming into theaters, Ron Perlman had a blast with the press in L.A. sharing stories of life, Hellboy, and how his world is just ducky now that his dreams are finally being realized.
Ron Perlman on how Hellboy has changed since the first movie:
"I don’t know if you’ve seen the picture, but it will be interspecies babies - two. And I’m just as curious about what they’re going to look like as the next guy. The beautiful thing about Hellboy is that he’s set, he doesn’t change. He was incredibly well articulated from the get-go the minute Guillermo decided to put the words 'shooting script' on Hellboy 1, and his circumstances change greatly. The forces at work, trying to alter his paths change dramatically, but the heart of the guy is luckily set in stone. I don’t believe he feels any real need to change. He’s always going to be the same, only the circumstances change. In the second film of course the circumstances are that he’s not living with Liz and it’s really not going well and he’s looking at the idea of what his limitations are as a mate and as a man in a relationship with something that he can’t afford to lose, because if he loses Liz he loses his reason to live. So he starts drinking and he happens to have to save the world while he’s a little bit buzzed. I kind of like that aspect, but all purely circumstantial. The heart of the guy I think is identical to the one we created in the first movie."
Perlman on how he tapped into the sensitivity of the character:
"I happen to have a very strong feminine side, I don’t know. I think maybe I say that jokingly, but I’ve been incredibly sensitive to all of the knocks I’ve taken, and I’m not unique. Everybody takes them. Everybody deals with them in their own way. My way of making things right that were dreadfully wrong at various periods of my life is I get a chance to exercise them through acting. And it’s one of the joys of being an actor is to be able to look at these things that remind you of chapters in your life and kind of recreate them for yourself so that - You know, it’s almost like therapy. You look at something really long and hard, and you explore it really long and hard, until it’s like, ‘Whew, okay we just got past that.’ For me, acting is like therapy. But there’s nothing that Hellboy feels that I haven’t felt in some measure at some point in my life, and I just try to draw on all of that and - that, plus the fact that he so evocatively and so specifically articulated by the author, by Guillermo, that it’s pretty clear what you have to do in playing him. That’s a true gift. You don’t always get that in a screenplay. One of the many gifts of working with this true genius."
On how he views the make-up side of the character:
"It depends. I mean, every job is different. Every job has a different set of givens and a different set of circumstantial things that build up to all of the decisions about how the guy walks, how the guy talks, what he sounds like when he speaks, what sign is he. I try to create as full - It’s a secret. It’s something only I know, but the more specific I can get the more specific I think that the behavior of the character will become. When you’re putting on a mask, you really have to kind of wait to see what the guy who designed the character has done physically before you begin to make those decisions, because what he looks like is going to definitely inform all of those things I mentioned. In the case of Hellboy, it was clear that this is just a bad-ass, just a total G - you know, G, as in gangsta. I just dug and dug, and dug down some more, try to bottom voice and my most swaggerest of walks and, viola, there he was."
On working behind masks:
"When I was first starting out in this business, I was really quite uncomfortable in my own skin. And luckily the good lord provided these roles almost in chronological order. First, Quest for Fire, which was mask acting, then Name of the Rose, which was mask acting, and then Beauty and the Beast, all happened during a period of my life where I was more comfortable behind a mask than I would’ve been naked, like this. It freed me up. It made me freer because it was no longer me. It was a transformed version of me, which was very abstract in relation to my own persona. So it made acting more possible and more freeing. These days I’m in my late 50s and I’m quite comfortable in my own skin and I no longer need the mask as much as I used to. So it becomes, ‘How much pleasure am I going to take in playing a masked character?’ And when the character is Hellboy, the answer is, ‘Man, I’m sure there’s a whole lot of other guys that wish they were me.’ And this is a real honor to play this character because the heart of the character is truly mythic, truly legendary and epic in scope, and he’s a phenomenal character to spend time with."
Ron Perlman on his sci-fi work:
"In regards to science fiction, I have done a tremendous amount of work in science fiction. It’s all coincidental. I’ve never been in the position financially to ever say no to work, and since that was the work that came mostly, that was the work I took. My own personal taste, I watch the Turner Classic movie channel. My thing is old black and white movies. I’m a freak for John Ford and George Stevens and Raoul Walsh, Gary Grant, Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper, and Billy Wilder. When it’s my time, that’s what I find myself doing, and I’m obsessed with the old studio days and the beginnings of cinema, especially in the United States. But clearly around the world as well, Kurisowa, Faustbinder, Wedmueller - I’m leaving out so many of my heroes, but those are my personal tastes."
On whether he worries about getting typecast in this genre:
"I’m sure I did. [laughs] I’m feeling so carefree these days that I don’t remember ever worrying about anything. I mean my life is just ducky right now. The things that have happened to me have gone so far beyond anything I might have dreamed or imagined that I stopped dreaming and imagining. I just basically wake up every day and take what the good lord gave me because it’s pretty trippy. It’s pretty trippy that we were able to do Hellboy with a guy who’s basically lived on the fringes pretty much his whole career, never been invited to the mainstream party, and sort of backed his way in with the good graces of Guillermo del Toro fighting for me for seven years. So it’s all like... it’s phenomenal."
Ron Perlman on why his life is so ducky right now:
"My family is doing good, everybody is firing on all cylinders. We’re a family of artists and my son has just gotten into his college of choice and he wants to have a career in music. My daughter just made her first album and she’s in Hellboy and wants to be an actress. She’s firing on all cylinders. My wife is a fashion designer and she does amazingly remarkable. Guillermo pointed it out to me that I’m the least talented member of the Perlman family and he’s absolutely right I’m far and away the least talented. But things are going really well. I've got this new TV series on FX, which the writing is absolutely superb and the character is unlike anything I’ve ever attempted before. Work is coming and all of the things that I ever dreamed about are really beginning to happen. So when your dreams come true, how does it get any better than that?"
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Exclusive Interview: RON PERLMAN SEES RED FOR 'HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY' - PART TWO
The actor talks working with his co-stars, his own dark side and how much of Big Red is really just himself
By DANIEL SCHWEIGER, Soundtrack Editor
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Actor Ron Perlman has been earning stripes in Hollywood for decades from IN THE NAME OF THE ROSE, to ALIEN: RESURRECTION, to his latest work as the standout big read machine in the HELLBOY movies. While being the leading man means firing on all cylinders, the whole is only equal to the sum of its parts.
Perlman knows this and in our second part of our interview with him he discusses his co-stars, is it just him inside the makeup or is there acting involved and comic book movies.
iF: The ectoplasmic agent Johann Kraus is a real standout character in the film, especially with FAMILY GUY’s Seth McFarlane's giving him the nuttiest German accent outside of Hans Conried’s narration in THE ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE SHOW. Yet Seth didn’t come onto voice Johnann until long after you’d wrapped shooting. But you'd never know it from the great comic interplay between him and Hellboy, especially in one locker room scene where they have at it. How difficult was it to get that kind of repartee with the suit actor?
PERLMAN: The guy who did the suit acting actually gave a performance that wasn't bad, even though he always knew that he was going to be re-voiced. He gave me plenty to work off of, especially since he was doing his damndest German accent as he played the character. Not just physically, but as a "real" person. With regard to ultimately getting Seth on board, one can't say enough about his comedic genius. And at the end of the day, we realized that there was real potential for comedy in these scenes with Johann and Hellboy. And Seth was like a gold miner, getting in there and squeezed out every inch of humor.
iF: Suit actor Doug Jones finally got to do the voice of Abe Sapien, which he physically performed in the first HELLBOY. That must have given him even more inspiration on the set.
PERLMAN: Doug was the beneficiary of a great, heavily featured subplot in this movie, where romance ensues between Abe and the fairy Princess Nuala (Anna Walton), who's the most beautiful female freak to ever walk the Earth. That’s given Doug a chance to spread his wings and shine, especially with the buddy aspect of Abe getting drunk and breaking out into song with Hellboy. But then, Doug’s always been an actor of great accomplishment. With no disrespect to David Hyde-Pierce, I think it was a little gratuitous to re-voice Doug in the first HELLBOY. But whether or not you use his voice or not, Doug's going to give you 170 percent. That's just his work ethic. And he's a model actor to boot. Doug’s got way more discipline than me, and he's probably much more dedicated than I am. He's the disciplined member of our freakish clan down under. And I loved seeing him wallow in the fruits of what Guillermo was giving him to do in HELLBOY II. It was a pleasure to watch.
iF: In every comic book movie of late, it seems that there's always the scene where the villain confronts the superhero and tells him that he's just as bad as he is, and that they should be working together. While that happens here between Hellboy and Prince Nuada, it's done with a lot more subtlety than most of these other overly dark comic book movies.
PERLMAN: I don't think I've ever seen that particular color in such great relief as I have in HELLBOY II. The Prince and I are two freaks and outcasts. And here I find myself utilizing my unique gifts in the service of mankind. Nuada points out that's a waste of talent, because mankind is not deserving of Hellboy’s dedication and fervor. And that really resonates inside of him, because Hellboy has “outted” himself, and is now a working member of society. And he finds out it's not what it's cracked up to be. There's a lot of bias, prejudice and hatred. It's the kind of things you suffer from if you're the different kid in the schoolyard. And that's the other genius of Guillermo del Toro. While he's telling 25 different other stories, he's really exploring that theme, and setting up the ultimate confrontation with the price that one has to pay when one is Hellboy, which probably will be depicted in great measure if there's a third movie.
iF: That's interesting, because the first HELLBOY seemed to have tied up the plotline of him going to the Dark Side. Yet one scene in here reveals that Hellboy is still destined to take an apocalyptic turn to his true nature as the son of "the fallen one."
PERLMAN: That's the other thing I marvel about Guillermo's work, because he manages to identify this aspect of humanity, which is denial. There are really bad things out there. And people think that if they live their life in a certain kind of way, then they're going to be able to avoid them. And that's just a myth. We are all going to get knocked around, because no one ever gets out of here alive at the end of the day. And we're going to have to pay heavy prices for some of our choices, as well as our DNA deficiencies. So as much as we'd like to sail our way through life, there is going to be a price to pay for one's destiny. The genius of Hellboy is that even though it’s a “comic book” movie comic book movie, you’re still given a chance to explore the dichotomy of the profound nature of what you do to avoid your own destiny, only to find out that it's unavoidable.
iF: In spite of that, Hellboy always gives his villains a chance to give up and avoid a thrashing, or blasting- something that usually falls on deaf monster ears.
PERLMAN: Yeah. That's because Hellboy's the Muhammad Ali of superheroes. I’ve followed Ali's career. Even with the heights he rose to, Ali was the only fighter of his stature who never, ever hit a guy while he was on his way down. When Ali thought he'd closed the deal, he stopped punching. Boxing is so brutal is because guy's get hit when they’re already on the pavement. There's no physical defense for that. And that's when brain damage happens, when guys end up talking like Rocky. Every one of them. And that's what I admired about Ali. He was a gladiator, but a gent at the same time- an amazingly articulate, witty guy who also had a code of behavior that was truly admirable, and one to aspire to. I guess that's what's also cool about Hellboy. He's never going to hit you when you're down. The other beautiful thing about Hellboy is that he doesn't mind if he dies. He's perfectly okay with that, which is what makes him truly fearless. He thinks, "If this is my last fight, so be it. This is a tough place to be, this life of mine." No one is more aware than Hellboy of the price he has to pay for being this unique, and an outcast. It makes for a very lonely existence. And the thought of having to go through that without Liz Sherman, the one thing that makes Hellboy’s life worth living, is devastating to him. And that’s a feeling that encapsulates his character.
iF: You have the gift of being able to do roles with creature makeup, and others that have nothing to do with horror films. In that way, you really seem to have escaped being typecast.
PERLMAN: Thank God. I hope you're right. I'm a pretty happy camper. I consider myself to be as lucky as it gets. And I'm having a great time, because I love being on movie sets more than anywhere else on earth.
iF: You've done two big-budget genre projects with OUTLANDER and THE MUTANT CHRONICLES. Yet both have been on the cooler for quite a while. Could you tell me about your roles in those films, and what's happened to them?
PERLMAN: OUTLANDER's director Howard McCain told me that the film was supposed to have come out last April. But I don't know what’s happened to it. The movie's about a guy on a spaceship who splits from this planet, and doesn't know that he has a monster onboard with him. He lands on Earth in 700 AD, and meets up with some Vikings. The monster gets out, and all hell breaks out. The guy on the spaceship is Jim Caviezel, and I'm a mean-ass Viking. MUTANT CHRONICLES is a post-apocalyptic movie that's set 425 year in the future, where corporations rule the Earth. There's a revisitation of a foe that showed up 1,000 years earlier and tried to eradicate mankind. Now he’s reappeared in a war zone, where explosions unearth a machine that's been buried. It starts churning, and mutants start multiplying to the point where mankind is threatened once again. My character Brother Samuel’s a monk who presides over a monastery where the chronicles about this foe are kept under lock and key, in case he appears again, They’re chronicles that tell us how to deal with the threat. So while everyone has lost hope and is evacuating the earth, I decide that the villain can be beaten, because he was once before. And I assemble this ragtag, dirty dozen group of suicidal soldier-types, which Thomas Jane leads. And while Brother Samuel is spiritual, he’s also a warrior. So it’s a very cool film. There's a huge amount of production value in it, and there's a huge amount of passion from Thomas and me for Mutant's director Simon Hunter, who's really smart and eloquent. He's got a completely unique vision of cinema. While THE MUTANT CHRONICLES is a finished work, it’s also one in progress, because Thomas and I know that there are things about it that can be tweaked. So Thomas Jane and I are going to host a midnight screening of THE MUTANT CHRONICLES at the San Diego Comicon in July, where we can get a fan base going, and to utilize the internet to help us perfect the film, and get it out to a marketplace reality. That ride’s about to start.
iF: One of the most popular animated projects you’ve lent your voice to is the videogame HALO, where you’ve appeared in the last two editions as Lord Hood.
PERLMAN: It's cool. The writing is really great, even if I don't know what the game looks like. I've never played a videogame in my life, and wouldn't even know how to put Halo into an X-Box. But it was a pleasure to do it because the characters are so great, evocative and have a strong emotional base. Those are the things that get my juices flowing. And I'm a heavy-duty Admiral, a military guy who's once again in a do-or-die position of saving the Earth.
iF: Your “franchises” like HELLBOY and HALO will probably keep going and going. Do you hope to continue being a part of them?
PERLMAN: I basically love to work. And if a project’s smart, and I feel like I can bring something to it, then my criteria are met for appearing in it. I don't regard my work in any other way than that, because I love to stay busy, and to meet and collaborate with new people and have a good time with my characters. So you'll see me in way too much shit. Probably too much than what's good for me. But so be it, because you only get one chance at this life.
iF: How much of you is Hellboy?
PERLMAN: If I answered that question, I'd sound like the most immodest asshole who ever existed. So I'm going to avoid answering it. The only thing I can say is that Hellboy’s the easiest character I've ever played. And I don't know how Guillermo did it. Every single line I say is written by him, and it sounds like they’re coming from me. It's almost too much to even entertain the idea that’s anything other than a coincidence.
iF: What's especially cool about HELLBOY II is that it doesn't feature any "big" movie stars. Yet it's the most satisfying and entertaining superhero movie of the summer. And you're carrying it.
PERLMAN: It's way cool. My feet never really touched the ground on the first one, because that was pure fantasy- the fact that Guillermo pulled off this seven-year struggle to win me the role. It was the kind of mainstream film that I hadn't had a whole lot of experience being the lead in. And now here's the second film, and a new studio's even more determined to get it right by putting it out on July 11th. That’s a major statement of confidence by them. So I'm completely dazzled by this amazing stroke of good fortune, especially for somebody who is far from being a bankable movie star. You will not find me on one page of US Magazine- unless I get a DUI
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Who was that masked man?
By Bob Strauss
MediaNews staff
Article Launched: 07/11/2008 12:11:21 AM PDT
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Hellboy (Ron Perlman, right) and his girlfriend, pyrokinetic Liz (Selma Blair) search for answers..
Ron Perlman is really a rather handsome devil. Impressive jawline. Baby-blue eyes. Cleans up well.
Nice voice, too. He sings good karaoke.
But for most of his acting career, the powerfully built New Yorker has been associated with "... unlovely types. Maybe it's the hint of Neanderthal on that marvelously symmetrical head.
Or maybe it's his own darn fault.
"When I first started out in this business, I was really, really quite uncomfortable in my own skin. Luckily, the good Lord provided these roles almost in chronological order," says Perlman, referring to makeup-heavy work. "First it was 'Quest for Fire,' which was mask acting. Then it was 'The Name of the Rose,' which was mask acting.
"Then (TV's) 'Beauty and the Beast.' They all happened during a period in my life when I was more comfortable behind the mask than I would've been naked, like this."
These days Perlman, who is in his late 50s, says he's quite comfortable in his own skin and no longer needs the mask as much as he used to. "So, now, it becomes about how much pleasure I'm going to take in a masked character." Hellboy must be delightful. Perlman has played the scarlet-skinned superhero with the sawed-off devil horns twice now. And he does it thoroughly.
"It's complete transformation," Perlman explains. "There's none of me that's visible at the end of the day. But it's well worth the effort because the guy I'm transformed into is someone I'm sure a lot of
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guys would aspire to be." It can't be easy, though, to project feelings past all those layers of latex. Even for a classically trained stage veteran like Perlman.
But rubber apparently has its pluses. "You get to see a side of Hellboy's vulnerabilities in 'The Golden Army' that you weren't quite as much aware of in the first film. What I found when I watched it was that whatever it was that I was trying to emotionally portray was enhanced by the makeup. It's pretty unbelievable that all that rubber can be as expressive as it is without me having to make any adjustment whatsoever. I just played him honestly and truthfully."
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After years as an actor, Ron Perlman is finally getting comfortable in his own skin
By ANGELA DAWSON, Entertainment News Wire
Thursday, July 10, 2008
AP Ron Perlman felt awkward and different growing up, but acting helped him overcome some of those insecurities. "It made me freer because it was no longer me," he says.
AP Ron Perlman felt awkward and different growing up, but acting helped him overcome some of those insecurities. "It made me freer because it was no longer me," he says.
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Universal Pictures Ron Perlman loves playing Hellboy. "This guy is deliciously robust in so many different ways," he says.
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HOLLYWOOD — Tall and hulking as a teen, Ron Perlman had a low forehead, deep-set blue eyes, a large mouth and an imposing jaw. He felt different, awkward. But a sense of humor helped overcome some insecurities — and so did acting, which he discovered during his teens. He could slip into characters onstage and disappear into other places for a while.
It's no coincidence, he says, that some of the first characters he played professionally required a significant amount of makeup: a caveman in "Quest for Fire" and his breakthrough role as a lion-man in the hit TV series "Beauty and the Beast."
"They all happened during a period of my life where I was more comfortable behind the mask than I would've been naked, like this," his said, pointing to his face. "It freed me up. It made me freer because it was no longer me. It was a transformed version of me, which was very abstract in relation to my own persona."
Acting and performance became the actor's therapy. He worked out some personal issues through his roles.
At 58, the native New Yorker is comfortable with the man he's become. He no longer requires the mask as much as he used to, but he continues to derive pleasure from certain roles that require him to disappear under makeup or prosthetics.
One of the roles he most appreciates is Hellboy, a demonic creature with a long tail, red skin, amber eyes, sanded-down horns and a grotesquely oversized right arm made of stone. He is an unlikely superhero, defending mankind from the evildoings of dark forces.
Perlman first appeared as Hellboy in Guillermo Del Toro's 2004 adaptation of Mike Mignola's comic book. Although the movie starred actors who weren't marquee names, the film earned a respectable $100 million worldwide. Here was a hero with whom audiences, particularly adolescent males, could identify.
Despite Hellboy's creature-feature appearance, at heart, he is something of a regular guy. He gets hurt when he fights bad guys. He eats too much. He has a passion for Cuban cigars. And he likes beer.
In "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army," which opens Friday, Hellboy is called into action after an ancient truce between humankind and the original sons of the Earth is broken. The anarchical underworld prince Nuada (Luke Goss of "Blade II") has grown weary of centuries of deference to mankind. He plots to awaken a long-dormant force of killing machines — the Golden Army — to defeat the humans and give the magical creatures he rules free rein to roam the Earth once again. Only Hellboy can stop the dark ruler and save mankind from annihilation.
Perlman was pleased to get the call to reprise Hellboy. "It's far and away the greatest comic book character an actor could ever want to play," he said enthusiastically. "This guy is deliciously robust in so many different ways."
Co-star Selma Blair also has nothing but praise for Perlman. "I can't picture anyone else playing Hellboy," the petite brunette said. "Ron is it. He's that New York guy. He has the wit and charm, and he's like the real leading man that Hellboy is."
Blair recalled that Perlman and co-star Jeffrey Tambor would pass downtime on the set in Budapest singing standards.
"You hear this amazing Frank Sinatra kind of singing, then you look over and it's Hellboy," she said, laughing. "That's pretty surreal."
Perlman demonstrates his singing chops on-screen in a drunken duet with co-star Doug Jones. Lamenting their respective girl troubles, the two croon the lyrics to Barry Manilow's "I Can't Smile Without You."
Most of the movie, though, is wall-to-wall action, with elaborately staged fight sequences, creepy otherworldly creatures and an epic battle.
"There are forces that are at work that are trying to alter (Hellboy's) path, but the heart of the guy is luckily set in stone," Perlman said. "I don't really believe that he feels any real need to change. He's always going to be the same; only the circumstances change."
Perlman's film career began in 1981 with a lead role in French director Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Quest for Fire." Five years later, Annaud cast him in the screen adaptation of Umberto Eco's "In the Name of the Rose." Other credits include "The City of Lost Children," "Enemy at the Gates," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "Romeo Is Bleeding," "Alien: Resurrection," "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "Star Trek: Nemesis."
Perlman's three-year run on TV's critically acclaimed "Beauty and the Beast," co-starring Linda Hamilton, brought him two Emmy nominations and other accolades.
But he says it's pure coincidence that he's appeared in so many science fiction and fantasy movies.
"I've never been in a situation financially to ever say no to work, and since that was the work that came to me mostly, that was the work that I took," he said candidly.
His personal taste runs toward old black-and-white Hollywood classics, and he favors legendary stars and directors.
"I'm a freak for John Ford, George Stevens, Raoul Walsh and Cary Grant," he said. "I'm obsessed with the old studio days and the beginnings of cinema, especially in the U.S., but around the world as well. I like Kurosawa and Truffaut."
Married, with two grown children, he describes his situation as "ducky." His wife, Opal, is a fashion designer. His daughter, Blake, is an aspiring actress (with a small part in "Hellboy 2"), and his son, Brandon, is college-bound with plans to go into music.
"Guillermo pointed out to me I'm the least talented member of the Perlman family — and he's absolutely right," he said, laughing.
Next up for Perlman is a new TV series called "Sons of Anarchy," scheduled to debut this fall on FX. No mask. No makeup.
"I look like this," he said, smiling.
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Exclusive: HB II's Ron Perlman
Source: Edward Douglas
June 13, 2008 - Super Heros Hype.com
Sometimes, things get away from us and that was certainly the case with this series of interviews Superhero Hype! did with the three primary male cast of Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Hellboy II: The Golden Army at this year's New York Comic-Con almost two months ago. During a special red carpet set up before their presentation, we talked with Ron Perlman, Hellboy himself, and Doug Jones, who portrays Abe Sapien and a variety of characters and creatures in the film.
This was our second chance to chat with Luke Goss after speaking to him on-set--you can read that interview here--as well as with Jones, but it was this writer's very first chance to meet and talk to Ron Perlman after having been a fan for many years.
Perlman of course played Hellboy in Guillermo del Toro's previous movie, but he also had a key role in Blade II and del Toro's early film Cronos, way back in 1993! He and the other two guys had a lot of great things to say about Guillermo and the new movie.
Superhero Hype!: You've been working with Guillermo for a long time and he's done amazing things for your career giving you roles in his movies like "Blade II" and "Hellboy."
Ron Perlman: This is all true.
SHH!: Can you talk about your relationship with him, how you first met and how it's evolved?
Perlman: It's something I don't want to overstate because it's a gift from God. I mean, I regard this as some otherworldly, amazing stroke of good fortune, and if I talk about it too much or belabor it too much, I feel like I'm in danger of making it go away. The minute we met, we knew that however many movies we did or didn't do together, we dug each other, and without the benefit of bloodlines, we were going to be like brothers. Whether we are working together or not, there's this wonderful friendship that's the dearest part of the whole thing to me. If you can believe there's something more dear than getting to play Hellboy in two movies.
SHH!: When you used to be on "Beauty and the Beast," you used to be in make-up every day. How does it feel having to do another movie where you have to go through that whole process every day.
Perlman: Well, I'm not nearly as young or eager or ambitious as I was when I was doing all those other heavy-duty make-up roles decades ago, so now, the only way I can get my ya-yas up to go through that process, it has to be a character with the gravitas of Hellboy and for a filmmaker like Guillermo. Otherwise, I just can't do it anymore. I'm too tired, I'm too cranky, I'm too curmudgeony.
SHH!: Most people who see this movie will presumably have seen the first movie, but some people won't have. What would you like them to leave this movie with as far as Hellboy's character arc?
Perlman: Well, first and foremost, I just hope they have the time of their life watching the movie, because whatever else it is, it's meant to entertain and meant to have somebody be someplace for two hours and not think about the rest of the sh*t that we live in, of which sometimes there's even too much to process. But you get so much more in any Guillermo del Toro movie and I could stand here for two hours just addressing the other levels that are being harkened too along the way. Mostly, I'd like people to say, "Man, I really, really liked the first movie but the second one rocks!" That's what I like.
SHH!: Do you know what you're doing next? I saw "The Last Winter" which was great. Are you going to do more independent films?
Perlman: I have a couple things more I'm working with Larry Fessenden on. I did a movie where I acted with him, a movie he produced about graverobbers called "I Sell the Dead," and we got a couple other things we're developing together. I'm doing a movie called "Bunraku" in a few weeks with Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson, very cool script.. post-apocalyptic…
SHH!: Is that set in Japan?
Perlman: There are Japanese elements to the film but we're shooting it in Eastern Europe.
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Von Movieinfos.de:
Der Regisseur Guillermo del Toro ("Devil's Backbone") hat den Kollegen von Latino Review vor kurzem ein exklusives Interview gegeben, in dem natürlich auch über die kommende Comicverfilmung Hellboy 2: The Golden Army sowie über einen möglichen dritten Teil gesprochen worden ist! Er arbeitet auch gerade an der DVD zu seinem aktuellen Film "Pan's Labyrinth". Hier ein Auszug:
Latino Review: Können Sie uns etwas über den Status von 'Hellboy' erzählen, jetzt wo die Fortsetzung schließlich gemacht wird? Ich sah etwas im Internet über die Story.
Del Toro: Die Story, die in diesem Artikel beschrieben wurde, wich ein klein wenig vom aktuellen Drehbuch ab. Aber es ist korrekt in dem Punkt, dass sozusagen die Welt der Magie der Welt der Menschen den Krieg erklärt.
Latino Review: Können Sie uns für die Fans etwas ausführlicher von 'Hellboy II' berichten, wie zB wer zurückkehrt und wer nicht?
Del Toro: Wir haben auf jeden Fall die Hauptfiguren - Hellboy, Abe Sapien und Liz Sherman, die zurückkommen. Wir haben zwei Charaktere von der F Welt, einen Prinz und eine Prinzessin, die wir auch sehr bald besetzen werden, aber John Myers ist nicht wieder dabei. Kroenen allerdings schon, in Form eines sehr kleinen Cameoauftritts. Prof. Broom kehrt nicht zurück. Kroenen hat ja dafür gesorgt.
Latino Review: Ist der Titel 'The Golden Army'?
Del Toro: 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'. Und meine größte Hoffnung besteht darin, dass wir erfolgreich genug sein werden, um 'Hellboy III' machen zu können, weil das sehr unerwartet wäre und ein dramatisches Finale für den Storybogen bieten würde.
Latino Review: Und Sie haben garantiert bereits eine Storyidee für Teil 3 im Kopf.
Del Toro: Oh ja, haben wir. Während Mike [Mignola] am 2. Teil schrieb dachten wir ein bisschen darüber nach wohin wir im Dritten gehen würden, wo es ein wenig düsterer als im zweiten Film zugehen wird. Hoffentlich können wir das machen.
Latino Review: Werfen Sie mir einen kleinen Knochen für den dritten Film hin.
Del Toro: Im Grunde würde es darum gehen, dass Hellboy die Prophezeiung erfüllt.
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