Ron Perlman: ‘Unless you’re Brad Pitt or George Clooney, most actors can’t pick their roles’

Ron Perlman: ‘Unless you’re Brad Pitt or George Clooney, most actors can’t pick their roles’

The intense gaze, the pronounced jaw, the two wrinkles on his forehead… it’s impossible to look away when you’re face to face with Ron Perlman. Because of the respect that the 75-year-old New York-born actor inspires, and because of everything he evokes: he has spent decades playing outsiders, thugs and tough action heroes, like the vigilante demon in the Hellboy saga, or the hunchback Salvatore in The Name of the Rose (1986). Today, he returns …