Ron Perlman shares his excitement about being in the Monster Hunter movie

Did you know that Ron Perlman was in the Monster Hunter movie? He doesn't have a huge part, but since it's Perlman, he certainly makes for a huge presence! In an interview with Comicbook.com, Perlman talks about what it was like being a small part of the film.

Well, I think it was the gravitas of the situation. And then when you finally meet the Admiral, you realize that he has a skillset that rises to this mythic sense of needs in this very, very dubious, very tenuous, very dangerous world. The fact that I was asked to play something like that, it's always a thrill, like, "Oh, wow, really? Are you serious? You want me to be that guy? Yeah, let me take a quick look. I'll get back to you in a minute and a half," which is exactly what happened. I was in from the get-go.

And then, of course, what was on the page was phenomenal. It wasn't something I was expecting because when you're doing an adaptation of a comic book or a video game, you're not ... nuance and real diverse dynamics and great character elements are not necessarily going to rule the day. Whereas, when I started reading this thing, that's what [writer/director] Paul [W.S. Anderson] had infused in the script and the storytelling. It was a real page-turner. It was something that I felt was in a world that was very original, very unique, and it was being handled in a way that you always felt the jeopardy. You always felt like, if we get this right in the making of it, that people will be on the edge of their seats. You always felt like you were working on characters that were not one-dimensional or just servicing the plot, but that had their own interesting little quirks and idiosyncrasies, which, for me, that's everything. I was very enthusiastic from the moment I first read it.