"We always knew Ron was perfect and I remember sitting up at
Rick Baker's
shop before Ron was in makeup, he was just getting a life cast or
something done, and he was just telling telling stories, and
Guillermo del Toro
and I looking at each other and laughing because he was already
Hellboy. Just sitting around being himself he was Hellboy, and yet, as
much as I knew he was perfect I was still caught by surprise by his
performance in the film, because there is so much subtle stuff that I
never... I mean there are things in the script that made me nervous. I
thought 'Is this going to be too..' well, the romance stuff always
makes me nervous because I can't write that kind of stuff, but the
performance he did with that stuff is so, so beautiful. "- On
Ron Perlman
in
Hellboy (2004).
