Ron Perlman Talks Fallout Casting, Hellboy, Voice Acting | Corpus Christi Comic Con Q&A

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our next guest. You guys, are you excited? You guys know him from the Hellboy movie

and its sequel. from Sons of Anarchy and a litany of other great projects he's been in. Put your hands together for Ron

Corman.

All right, Ron, you can sit wherever you like, Ron. You can sit on a table if you want. Whatever you want to do.

How are you? It's good to see you. I'm good. Is this your first time in Corpus Christie? I think so.

Yeah. How's the trick so far? Have you been able to see me here before? Maybe. Maybe. You'd be hard to You'd be

hard to miss. I feel like Well, I hope you're enjoying your stay here. We're really excited to have you.

Big big fan. I know. All of us are big fans. Um, I want to talk with you a little bit about some of your projects.

Um, I kind of want to start, if it's okay, like there's so much uh that we could talk about, but I'm trying to my

best to keep it to a few questions. Make sure and keep some questions in mind. You guys get ready to line up here soon.

So, if you can give your questions, we're going to open it up to the audience here soon. Um, but I'd like to start with something that I remember

from my childhood. Um, that you want a golden vote for. So, the Beauty and the Beast series on CBS in the8s. Who

remembers Beauty and the Beast with your co-star Linda Hamilton, which

I love, Sarah Connor. Sarah Connor. So, I mean, that was such a huge TV series

at that point in time. I know my parents are actually in the audience. They watched it. Um, it was big fan of that

series. have a hand for her parents. My parents are here.

Want to talk about Beauty of the Beast? Yeah. My mom was excited. She's like, I love this.

Yes. Big fan. So, I again, what a cool series to kind of like really catapult

really your career. I know you did a lot of projects before that, but really kind of came into, you know, the culture of Zeitgeist during that period of time.

Um, obviously won the Golden Globe for that series. Little fun factoid by the way. Did you know that George RR Martin

wrote for that show which is so bizarre when I realized that I thought that was really interesting for Game of Thrones.

Um and then we had also the writers of 24 and Homeland also worked on that show. So you have a bunch of really great writers on that show. Talk a

little bit about that experience and then being part of the series that really helped pave the way for future

fantasy romance series on television before that was really a thing before that was really mainstream. What was that experience like for you? I mean, no

one, including me, thought it would get past the pilot because

um television, especially network television, was not known for doing

really, really original, unique, breakthrough kinds of models.

And there had never been anything like Beauty and the Beast, you know, uh an otherworldly creature living under the

streets of New York who kind of dressed like he was in a Shakespeare play. uh

very Elizabethan and um very gothic and a romance without any actual touching

um I mean aside from my hug and stuff but that was chased so it was it was

like doing a gothic novel gothic romance novel in prime time it was like a

contradiction in terms and I always thought every moment we had on the air was kind

of borrowed time because Um we did okay. We never, you know, had

like huge huge audiences, but the audiences we had were incredibly devoted

and very viciferous and the show garnered a lot of critical praise, which

is I think one of the reasons why it it lasted as long as it did. Actually, as

you mentioned, it was it was a coming out party for Howard Gordon and Alex

Kansas who went on to write Homeland and 24 and um this was their first writing gig

after they got out of school. George R. Martin was toiling away at doing his

horror little things and Game of Thrones novels, but he took a little break to to

be an episodic writer on on Beauty and the Beast and wrote what had to be among

my favorite episodes, the Holly Halloween episode where Vincent actually

gets to walk among um you know, publicly cuz everybody's

dressed up as a beast anyway. So he fit right in finally and that was a great

real milestone episode. So it was like nothing filled with nothing but great

memories and a lot of distinguished a lot of like

not not the kind of thing that you associate commercial television with. Um, we ended up doing an album of poetry

which is one of the most beautiful collections of 20 20 19th and 20th

century poets including Robert Frost and William Wersworth and Shakespeare and um

yeah it was it was a trip you know it was like

my first ever commercial success but it was not commercial at all. So which kind

of laid the groundwork for the rest of my career which even no matter how commercial uh or

mainstream a project was they were kind of fringy feeling anyway even Hellboy.

Yeah. No definitely I think yeah I think that's what makes you so special

and so cool is it's not conventional. It is a little more fringe a little more but I think that's what appeals to

people. That's what, you know, you get massive cult followings because of that. And don't cut yourself short. You absolutely mainstream projects that went

huge. I mean, we talk about Sons of Anarchy. I mean, that was a huge show. I was a big fan of as well. And Hellboy

really, I mean, the OG Hellboy, there's a lot I think a little I would say device in this, but you know, there is a

new iteration of that. Um, it's great, but I nothing will beat your Hellboy for

me. And I think we can all agree with that. I mean, such

such an amount of gold and I mean really just, you know, it's a huge I mean,

we're all just huge fans of that. And then the fact that you worked with GMO, I know people bring this up to you all the time, but for those of you that

aren't familiar, um there's a long history here with Ronn and GMO del Toro who directed uh both of the Hellboy

films, but also some other past projects. Kronos was also something that you guys worked with and worked on

together. um talk a little bit about the friendship and the impact that it's made on your life working with GMO. Um what

what behind the scene maybe like quirk or ritual maybe that a fan would expect that you learned from or just something

special that you remember from your work time working with him? I learned how to eat dessert first and then go to the entree that was a little

trick. Um I was in his very first movie. He was 26 year old still had pimples.

Never met a movie before. young Mexican kid and brought me down there to do what

turned out to be a movie that was all in Spanish. If I'd known that, it might have been different, but I didn't find

out until I got off the plane in Mexico City. And it was called Kronos.

And it was um our relationship on that went way beyond

just collaborators. We really really dug in each other's company to the point where we felt like we were bros, like

real bros, like family at the end of that thing. And I think because of that

spirit, Hellboy uh came ended up fighting for me for 7 years for me to

play Hellboy. Uh one studio had it for 5 years and realized they're not going to get

anywhere with with GMO and trying to ex to to to persuade him against having me play it. Then he went to another studio.

They wouldn't do it. with any and for seven years he fought and I've never seen anything I don't think I've ever se

I know I've never seen anything like that. Um, but that doesn't define the

special relationship that I have with him. And then that was a a game changer for him and everything changed after

Hellboy and then Hellboy 2. Sons of Anarchy came up because of that, you know, and so he had an impact on my life

that I can't even begin to even put into words. But um

having been along for the ride of watching him emerge from an unknown kid who' never met a movie before to one of

the high most highly respected film artists on the planet has just been a

privilege and uh a real cool kind of ride. Real cool. I feel like uh I'm in

the sidec car of some cosmic juggernaut adventure.

I love that. No, definitely right. I like everybody's so excited for some time.

So, you talked about playing Hellboy um in some ways felt very personal and kind

of transformative for you. Was there a particular moment during filming where you felt the character most deeply that

you connected with either physically or emotionally that you really I I I was a little guilty about taking

the check because when it I don't I don't know how to

explain this without it sounding like like a total idiot and immodest, but if

you read the Hellboy comics, he spoke in one word sentences. Hellboy had no personality whatsoever. He was just a

one-dimensional comic book hero. So when GMO needed to find a human model on whom

to base the three-dimensional version of Hellboy for the movie, he was looking for somebody who was an

underachiever slob who'd rather stay home, play with the cats, you know,

never do his laundry, just watch Marx Brothers and Three Stooges movies and eat pizza. And so he mild it on me.

And so I didn't feel like I was acting. I in fact in fact I wasn't. I was just I was just being me, you know, this slob

underachiever who, you know, I mean, I feel like I do have superpowers, but I don't choose to use them. Um, just like

Hellboy. I'd rather stay home and watch [ __ ] Marx Brothers, you know? Like, so I felt like I was stealing money from

a baby, you know? I was like, you you're paying me for this? This is

this is what I do at home, man. You know, the only difference is you put some rubber on me. Only 4 hours of rubber on you, which is

something you went through quite a bit. I think also through your career. I've heard about the 4-hour rule, which is interesting. When that process is

happening, do you go through your own process kind of prepping to get ready to go out and, you know, do your lines, do

your rules? There's something kind of internal that happens cuz that's a long grueling time to be sitting in a chair

and also pretty claustrophobic, I think. So, kind of. Well, it turns out, and here's another, you know, like bulletin

for you, no one sits around and does nothing better than me.

And I used to come to work and for 4 hours and just sit around and do nothing while they were putting my makeup on,

you know, I just sitting there listening to music and, you know, taking cigarette breaks and, you know, that's and dude,

that's that was like I mean, come on. You really don't need

to feel bad for me. I was like, I was This was my pleasure.

I love that. No, but um Okay, we got some questions coming up. I have a couple more before we open it up to the audience. Um little bit of sense of

harchy. You kind of touched on that. So, definitely Clay Mororrow, one of the TV's most complex, I would say, and

morally ambiguous characters. Um, was there ever a scene where you disagreed

with Clay's actions but found a way as an actor to justify it? You know, to

say, you know, this is why and this is why, you know, you're kind of sympathetic to your character even if they do bad things. Did you ever have a

moment where you justified it? Almost always I don't um I've said this publicly many,

many times. Um, Clay Marorrow was the closest character

I ever came to turning down because I didn't feel him. I didn't understand

him. I didn't relate to him. I didn't understand the way he was wired. I didn't understand his hierarchy for how

he made decisions when he you chose to be violent, when he chose to be ruthless.

All of that stuff um was very difficult for me to approach using my own value

system as a you know as a as a jumping off point and I almost said no. Um but

then I had this little angel sitting on my shoulder going you can't say no. You call yourself an actor you [ __ ] Yeah. So uh that guy

said all right shut up already. Shut up in the [ __ ] already. Okay. Um,

I don't remember the question, but I'm sure I had a good time giving you the answer. That was a better That was a better

answer. No, I it was just more about like how you justified, you know, his character even though I was always uncomfortable playing Flet

um because he he required me to

um use other uh skills than my own field of

experience. And um then you start to worry about authenticity. you start to worry, am I

coming off like naturally and realistically? Cuz that's basically the job, the actor's job first and foremost.

Um, but um, how how do you think I did

[Applause] that angel on the shoulder calling names, right? That was a really cool like kind

of Shakespearean arc that kind of went through that series. And that's kind of I think at the root of of Sons of Entertainment was a lot of those themes.

Um, but what was it like kind of working with like you and Kate Kate Sagal had

such a great you know chemistry and like emotionally charged scenes. What made

those kind of onscreen relationships between Clay and Gemma so compelling from your perspective working with

Katie? First of all, Katie was married to Kurt Ser who wrote all those kinky sex scenes

we did together. So, I I thought I was involved in some sort of really weird

[ __ ] you know, and um I had to take a lot of drugs in

order to pull some of that stuff off. Um and if you'd like a list of the the

things I was on at the time, and I will happy to provide them for you on my u my

my Instagram page, um go follow his Instagram page.

What was your question? We're going to open it up to some

questions to the audience, but also I just want to do a quick shout out for his uh animated voiceover roles. He did

some really cool Afro Samurai, one of my favorites that I loved. Uh he did a great job in playing that character.

Your voice acting, you have such a great voice. like your your presence is amazing, but it comes through through

your v your vocal talents, your vocal acting, which is very it's very tricky because I've had a lot of people that

I've interviewed that have done voice work and it is not any to me does it is

not anything less than doing you know live acting in person. you have sometimes in some cases I think it would

be trickier and actually can I just say like you did when I was looking I knew a lot of your your body of work but of

course I do my research and do my homework and I didn't realize you did a kind of a not a huge role but important

pivotal role in a in a show that I really loved which is Adventure Time Adventure Time fans out here

you he did the voice of the Lynch which is like the creepiest just kind of like it stayed with me a

little bit and I did not realize that was you And so that was just really again your vocal talents also come across very well um you know just

through just through that just you have a great voice you know so it just really kind of comes through um so those what

challenges did you have you know vocally for some of those those voiceover roles the reason why I I do so much voiceover

work is because it's it's almost the purest form of acting you know when

you're creating a character for either the stage or for a film you have some rehearsal time and you have some

discussion time when you come in to do a voice in a cartoon, you sit down at the microphone and you're giving your

performance immediately. And it's a very kind of a the most primal approach to

just having take a full swing at something before

you've even had a chance to analyze it enough to get in the way of it. And I like that a lot. It's very kind of pure.

It's very primal. It's very easy. And you know, for those of us like me who are addicted to acting, I just love

performing. I love it's like other people do crossword puzzles. I I try to

play other characters. That's how I get off, you know. And um the uh the voice

acting is is you're in and out. You're given a full performance of an entire

episode of a show in in a matter of minutes.

And um I dig it. That's what I do. I love that. That's awesome. All right,

guys. We're going to open questions for you. We're going to open it up to the audience. If you get Make sure you get

right up on that mic because it's hard to hear. Give us your name and your question, please. Hi there. My name's Tim. Uh going off of

your voice acting uh you're well known for uh the narrator in Fallout. I was curious uh a couple um thoughts about

that. if you've one played the games and two if you've uh thought about or been

approached to do a cameo for the live action Amazon series. Well, I can't talk about number two.

Just not talking about it. I think I just talked about it. Um

and no, I've never played a video game in my life. I I don't even know. I I don't even know what what software

hardware I don't know the difference between hardware and software. So that's really a problem. And then even if I did

know what hardware to buy in order to play put the software in, I wouldn't know how to push start or anything like

that. I'm a complete lie. If you got some uh young children in your family, maybe

have them hook you up with uh with how to do it. It's a worthwhile game. Very good series. Yeah. I managed to raise a couple of

kids who like are old school like me. They're just like they're very very analog.

Thank you every question. We got our Okay, so this is Ken. She is the other moderator that shares movies with me.

Hello Kit. She's fantastic and she is dressed up. I don't know. Very familiar looking out today.

She looks like my niece. No makeup on tonight. Okay. So well I guess I don't have to see my name. Um,

so my question is in 2012 the whole boy makeup for fulfilling a makeup wish and

u I know the recipient Zachary also went through the makeup process and I mean

overall I just wanted to hear about how that day was for you if you have anything that you want to share about that. So I got a call from Mike Mola who

created the the Hellboy makeup for Hellboy 2 and then applied it on me every day. We were very very close. We

you know I mean we work we've been working on GMO movies for 25 years and

uh he this is long after we finished the gig and he said there's this kid who's

uh part of the Makea-Wish Foundation which is my favorite favorite charity on earth um who wants to meet Elbow. And I

said sure no problem. He says I don't run before you say yes. I don't think you understand. He doesn't want to meet Ron. he wants to meet elder boy. And I

said, "Oh, I guess that's going to require more work on your part than it is on my part because once again, I get

to sit in the chair and do nothing and you do all the gluing." And so I said, "I'm game if you are." And it turned

into this was a complete secret. No one was supposed to know about it. The only people who knew about it were Zachary's

family and the people who worked at at Spectral Motion, which is Mike's company. And you know, we've turned it

into like a big picnic. We had In-N-Out burgers and and shakes and stuff and

took pictures and stuff like that. And uh

I mean it went viral because somebody leaked the photographs and it was supposed to be just in house. But the

main thing is is that the last I heard Zachary is doing good. [Applause]

Thank you so much. She came to me before this and was like, I really want to ask him about that Make a Wish. I think that

is so Look at her. She's like so obsessed with She's like, I'm so jealous that you're doing panel for him. Your

name and your question. Make sure to get up on that mic. Hello, my name is Hayden Connelly and

and I'm a huge fan of your movies and

and and I have a question. Um, what what is the good what is the good

role in your Hellboy movies?

Say what is the good role in your Hellboy movies? Yes. Well, obviously Hellboy is the greatest role of all

I do say so myself. [Applause]

Look, man. You know, like I got a chance to uh form an incredible relationship with Duck Jones, who played April,

[Applause] we uh the two of us had spent most of

our act professional lives at that point just being covered in in makeup. No one

knew what Doug Jones looked like in real life cuz he was always some sort of creature. Same with me. And then in El

Boy, we're best friends and we're freaks. We're we're, you know, not allowed in the real world because we're

we don't we don't fit in. We're not human. Um, and so the bond between Doug

Jones and Ron Prman and Abe Sapi and Elboy were mirrored,

you know, like we we understood what we were both this kind of like lonely

existence of I'm an actor, I can make a living, but nobody knows what I look like and nobody knows who I am. And uh I

think that was the basis of uh why it seemed like we were such bros on screen,

you know. I love that scene when you're drinking beer together, the gate together. I just think it's such a memorable scene with

you two. Is that fun to to do with him? Barry Manalo. Yes.

Thank you so much. Next question.

Um yeah, I think I have one more question. Um,

how how did you get in the cartoon character

uh one of the st uh the Stavaging Brothers from the Disney movie Tangled?

Oh yes, great question. Well, one of them spoke and the other one didn't. So, I only had to do half my job.

Thank you so much for your question. Appreciate your name. Your question. Let me bring that mic down a little easier.

Hi, I'm P. Shy, a really big fan of you and all your work. Um, I just have a

quick question. Do you or any Toro, do you have any upcoming projects for him

or are you like tightly? He's got Frankenstein, which is I think going to open um in the next couple of

months. Yeah, I saw the trailer open up. It's I love it. And u I'm pretty much out of work.

I have a lot of uh little indie movies that are coming out, but I don't know how or when or what what what to send

you to see them. Come with me is Come. Is that right? Come with me. But that doesn't have distribution yet. There's a lot of

movies that I've done that don't have distribution yet that are looking for distribution. Um so I don't have

anything to send you to, but you know, keep your eyes open. Check your local

listings as and come with me. He's actually reuniting with Theo Rossi from Sounds of

Man, which is kind of cool. So, we will find it. The These people will find it. They will find a way to find it and they will watch it. And I believe also The

Saviors is another project I think that you have upcoming as well. Sounds right. Awesome. So, check those out. Thank you

so much for Thank you so much. I'm a big fan. Hello, Sailor Moon.

Hi, my name is Ray. I'm a fan of your work as Hellboy and Jaba. Baba from the

book of life. But I was just curious about how long the makeup process took for Beauty and the Beast and Hellboy.

Same exact 4 hours each. There's some sort of an unspoken rule

that these makeups take 4 hours. I I don't know. They all have ever since the

very first one all the way to now. Like whenever I'm going to be

transformed, it takes four hours. I think that is like the amount of time to

get it right and also piss off the guy that you know who's playing the

character, but not too much. Thank you so much for your question.

[Applause] Your name question. Hi, my name is Cayens and I wanted to ask you about how

how much chaos ensued with the amount of cats that you guys had on the set at Poy.

Chaos ensued. chaos with there were the this it was

[Applause] it was Hungary we were shooting in Budapest and they have different kind of rules

about how the animal people in movies you know what their their health and and

and practices are compared to here in America you know we're very strict about

you know there not so much so

God, it was it was everything from cute to like um how long does he have to live?

All that I'm not going to say a whole lot more than that. Thank you.

I had to take a shower after we shot that scene.

I remember I had to take a series of showers. Somebody help with that microphone, please.

And it's for the It's for the baby. Yeah, the baby is the one with the question. Baby has a question.

And he really does go for the mic. He's not earlier. Hello. This is uh Julius Juju Armstrong. He wants to

He's pretty determined. Oh, he has. He'll get it. Has he punched you yet today? Oh, he's been slapping me the entire

time. That is that away, boy.

I wanted to know. This kid was so tough with him when he was born. The doctor slapped me right in the nose. Smacked him right back.

Want to say hi? Hi. What's up, Julius? Julius. Julius Armstrong.

Um, I wanted to know if you knew any lore or fun details that would have been

in the third installment of Hellboy. Like, did the twins have names or just

anything? Any juicy tidbit? Well, no. I don't I don't have any uh

small tidbits, but I did have a very big overview of of what the story was going

to entail. You know, Hellboy is summoned to Earth to be the seed of destruction

to destroy mankind, but then he's grown. He he's he's he's he's

um raised for good. So the last episode, last installment of the movie was going

to be which Hellboy prevailed? Is he is he the seed of destruction or is he

there to save? Is he there to destroy mankind or save mankind? And it was going to be this incredible dialectic

between nurture versus nature, almost philosophical in scope and and very very

a huge cosmic struggle. And then the twins, one of them was going to look

human and the other was going to look one of them was going to look more like mom and the other was going to look more

like dad. Which guess which one was the good one and guess which was So if you know KM

Del Toro's mind, you know which one was the the scumbag and which one was like,

you know, going to help save save the earth. Um, it would have been an epic

third installment and an incredible resolve to all the questions that were

posed in the first two films. And that's why I fought so hard to get it made. And I'm so pissed off that it didn't get

made. We all I was about to say we all were very pissed that that did not kind of

that arc didn't feel complete. And so I think we all kind of you know that little struggle you're having with Julius,

you know, you're losing, right? I know. It's going to stay that way for the next 30 years. Okay. I don't want to be the

bearer of bad news. No.

Yeah. Go ahead. Smack her in the face. Who do you think you're talking to? I'm

I'm Julius. Yes. Thank you for your question, Julius.

[Applause] Hi, I'm Trent. So, I was wondering of

all the Hellboy adventures you've had, what was your favorite scene from the movies that you've been in,

favorite sequence was when we got drunk, man. [Applause]

And it's not, you know, it's it's obvious this when we sang Barry Vanalo together, but but the better thing is

that when when I take a we've been we just had like six eight six-packs of

beer together, right? and I take her into looking at the Sleeping Liz and I talk about how in

love with I'm so [ __ ] drunk and it's like it's my favorite moment on both

movies. Thank you. Thank you so much for the question. Speaking of Adventure Time,

uh, I'm Ethan and I was wondering if there's any particular themes from Adventure Time you think bring truer

than others since it is a story or a show filled with many.

Say it again. Are there any particular themes from Adventure Time you think bring truer than others? Like main ideas, life

lessons in movies or Adventure Time. Or in Adventure Time. I just thought

that Adventure Time, you know, I I never really um was part of the whole saga.

You know, I came in for a very specific play, The Lich, and I don't remember reading the scripts from beginning to

end. So, I can't really I'm not really an authority on the world, but I do know

what I had to do was incredibly well written. And I think I signed a lot of

stuff at these comic cons from Adventure Time. So I only can go by like people

really dug the the show like more than I even ate. You know, I just went and did the gig and now I'm finding out like

Fallout and Adventure Time had this huge impact that I never expected them to

have. So you tell me and I guess it was cuz it was a pretty good show. I'm I'm a mega fan. Like I'm a huge

Adventure Time fan, too, which is weird. I know I'm an adult, but I love, you know, good nuanced again voiceover where

people think you it's a cartoon. No, it there's sometimes so many nuanced layers to some of these animated series that

really are impactful and and it comes from the characters that play them and voice them. Um, that show was really

nuanced, very existential. I mean, it was deep. I don't even realize it. And having you as the Lich, I mean, it

stayed with me. like it was it was like a creepy I mean it was just it just you know was just the um the what you

brought to that character and then again you know you maybe didn't realize it at the time but it really did make a huge impact on a lot of people and through

that show. So I'm a fellow Adventure Time. I wish I could answer your question. I'm sorry I can't. But I will say people

look at cartoons and they think they're just for kids and they're not. I mean, you know, there's a lot of animated storytelling that's really, you know,

adult doll oriented, very sophisticated and very kind of mythic um, you know,

big big ideas. So, um, Afro Samurai is another great role he did. I love that series. That was so

good. So, fans of Afro Samurai out there justice. So good. Thank you so much for your

question. Go ahead and Hello, my name is Thomas and I'm a huge

fan and besides Hellboy, I know you for voicing many characters uh in animated

projects. One is Clay from from DC Comics. Uh you boys in Batman the the

animated series and many other projects. And I don't know if you heard, but a a

live action movie was announced not so long ago uh with Tom Reese Harris in the

lead role. So I have two questions. One is if you were asked to be part of this movie, would you be down for it? And

what piece of advice would you give to the actor? What piece of advice and what was the

project term? You get a little closer to the mic. Yeah. Mhm. A solo movie of Clayface. Um

Clay Face gotcha. that was announced uh by this is too much. Well, okay. I I'm I'm hope this gets

back to Mike Flanigan. Okay, I'm so [ __ ] sick and tired of a director

saying, "I watched Ron Bowman give his performance at Playace and that's why I'm making the movie

and he doesn't [ __ ] call me. I I did about some punk [ __ ] unknown actor

[ __ ] you know, if I really had that big an effect on you, bro. I'm in

makeup, right? It doesn't [ __ ] matter how old I am.

[Applause] I'm going to say thanks a lot for jerking me around on the internet.

Thank you. [Music]

Hey, Ronald. I'm Jamie. Don't waste a bear, bro. Don't Don't [ __ ] poke don't poke a bear.

Um, I'm just curious. So, what exactly happened with with Hellboy 3 before they decided to reboot the series and come

out? Say, uh, what happened what exactly happened with with Hellboy 3 before they decided to just do away with it?

You know, Cameron was like he's first of all, he's he's the quintessential artist and most artists, they don't like to

real artists don't like to go backwards. They like to go forward. And he's got so many creative ideas that he wants to

execute. and he just has too many things he wants to do to go back and make a third Hellboy. basically

um you know he wants to move forward and I I get that and um

I don't know what else to say you know I was ready to do it but

I know thank you guys for maybe one or two more questions at the top so just make sure

it's just a single question and become Hellboy and Optimus Primer and Transformers Rise of the Beast. Oh yeah,

the transformer is Optimus Prime. I got one question. Maximus Autobots roll

up. Next question. Best question ever.

Have a great day. Thank you so much. All right, one more question, guys, and then we're going to wrap.

Hello, my name is Marcus. Besides Beauty and the Beast, I remember you from a 1997 movie called Alien Resurrection. Uh

my question is how was it working with Sony Beaver and Moner?

Well, there's a there's a improvised line in the movie where I first

see Ripley and I say, "Ah man, you know, I can't

lay off tallness. That's how Ron feels."

So, you know, and and Sigrone's tall and so I get a load of her, damn,

I may [ __ ] with this. She also made that basketball shot in

one go. She actually made that scene, by the way. Like, and you I heard you

almost like messed the tape up. I did mess it up. You had to edit. Yeah. Miracle of editing was to to save

it from messing it up. Thank you so much. All right, one more question, guys. That's it and then we're

going to wrap. My name is Josh. I was going to ask you, how is it uh filming The City of Lost Children?

That was trippy, man. I had seen Delicatess and I had, you know, taken

note of the fact that I've never seen film making like Delicatess. with maybe the most original, startlingly

um unique visionaries that I had seen in decades. And then

suddenly I'm in the conversation to be part of their second film which is the City Lost Tour. And suddenly I'm in

there and I'm I'm I'm in France making this thing. And it was like,

you know, poked me every day like I think I'm dreaming. somebody wake me up cuz it was the whole time it was like

like I was in a rarified you know fantasy land and uh I was the recipient

of some sort of gift from the universe that to this day I still can't figure out like why me but why question it

right question guys

talking

so Yes. So, you know, today is the only day he's left he's going to be here. He's

not going to be here tomorrow. So, if you guys want to go visit with him, get an autograph. Go back to the table and I'll be there

the rest of the day. Go. While you can, y'all put your hands

together one more time.

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