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

Ron Perlman poses exclusively for EL PAÍS in his Los Angeles living room. Unless you’re Brad Pitt or George Clooney – who receive thousands of scripts – most actors don’t have any say in their careers. I [don’t think it’s] a coincidence that, for the first 20 years of my career, I only worked with French, Italians and Mexicans.”By Mexicans, he refers, above all, to Guillermo del Toro. In return, years later, the director fought the studios to make Perlman the lead actor in the two Hellboy films. But I don’t know… I don’t think anyone’s going to come and say, ‘Hey, Ron, we blacklisted you.’ They just blacklist you, period.