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Hey, this is sweet! Come over here, let’s read this sweet story together and feel happy for a few brief moments in this miserable Monday, you Garfields. It’s about Ron Perlman being a sweetheart and a child being adorable. From The Hollywood Reporter:
Six-year-old Zachary had expressed to Make-A-Wish his desire “to meet and become Hellboy.” The boy is undergoing treatment for leukemia, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Enter Spectral Motion, the creature effects house that brought to life the many fantastical characters in Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy 2 (2008). They in turn approached Perlman, who “loved the idea and donned the makeup once more,” Spectral Motion said on its Facebook page.
Perlman then underwent the four-hour makeup application procedure it takes to become Hellboy and shocked a delighted Zachary — who later got the opportunity to become a pint-sized Hellboy himself.
Obviously this is very nice, and I highly suggest you go to the Facebook page and look at the rest of the pictures unless you have a heart condition because MY GOODNESS your heart is going to fail, but it does make you wonder what kinds of beautiful Make-A-Wish requests get denied by people not willing to go through four hours of makeup and spend a day eating out of a straw because they can’t eat with their Hellboy hands on. Like I wonder how many times Rik Mayall has just REFUSED to dress up as Drop Dead Fred for a child with leukemia. You know? Probably a lot, right? “Please stop forwarding me these Drop Dead Fred Make-A-Wish requests, Susan. You know my stance.” GAH-ROSS, Rik Mayall. He is probably like that ALL the time.
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Wouldn’t Heckboy have been a little more age appropriate?
It’s a place, not a cuss!
*fictitious place
This is great, but I don’t know why the kid didn’t just wish for more wishes.
So does anyone else have to make up a family emergency due to uncontrollable weeping at work? Everyone, right? I bet it’s everyone.
It’s definitely everyone I’ve shown this to that is for sure. There is an epidemic of family emergencies sweeping my office!
I am actually dead! I had to be excused from work because my heart broke into a million pieces and I am now typing to you from beyond the grave. It was hard to learn how to use kinetic energy again (see: that scene in Ghost) but it was worth it.
I always thought Ron Perlman was an amazing actor…u go big guy.
I hope Zak gest better.
And Ron Perlman..you can’t much better.
This was a very sweet thing to do and cancer is a fucking jerk and Hellboy is one of my top-all-time-favorite comic book characters and Ron Perlman has always been the best. Was very happy to read about this.
*CORRECTION: Hellboy is one of my all-time favorite characters, in comics and out. He gets in so many fun adventures, you guys. The last story (so far) ‘The Storm and the Fury’ has made me cry while just HODLING THE BOOK and remembering what happens in it. I’ve tweet-complained at Duncan Fegredo (the artist on the past three trades) numerous times about this.
*HOLDING the book.
It’s late. I seem to be making more corrections the deeper I go.