Given that most of Ron Perlman's famous roles saw him playing fearsome demons and other badasses, there's often a temptation to assume his own life had similar parallels.
But as he told NPR's Terry Gross, any confidence he now has was very hard-won as he spent many of his childhood and teenage years feeling self-conscious about his body and face.
This led to a situation in which he had to make some major physical changes to do what he wanted in life and at 72 years of age, it seems he's just as capable of putting in that work as ever.
