Ron Perlman Defends Comments He Made About Making Hollywood Execs ‘Bleed’ During SAG & WGA Strikes

Ron Perlman recently warned in an Instagram Live post that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) won’t stop the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike until members lose their homes. Perlman stated to the executive that “there’s a lot of ways to lose your home” and to “be careful.”

Perlman, a veteran actor best known for the Hellboy movies, cleared the air later that day about what he said, stating he doesn’t “wish anybody harm” in a series of Instagram videos he posted.

He spoke about the “aftermath” of his initial Instagram post.

“I got quite heated because I was talking about a quote from one of the executives on the other side of the negations talking about how they planned to not even begin negotiating until writers and actors started losing their houses and their apartments,” he said.  

“And so you can imagine my reaction to somebody wishing that kind of harm on people in the very same industry that they call their own… I don’t wish anybody any harm,” he added. “I hope the a–hole who made that comment also doesn’t wish anybody any harm, but when you start going around and saying we’re not even going to bargain with these f—ing d—heads until they start f—ing bleeding and their families start bleeding.”

He spoke about how he believes corporate America is “soulless” and that they only care about capitalism, rather than its actors and writers.

“When you co-opt something that deals in beauty and the human experience like film and television does, like any of the fine arts do, but it’s being run by people who only care about one thing and that is money, it makes for some very strange bedfellows,” he said.

The actor is advocating for unity and hoping that this matter can be resolved with fairness. “We all must try to get along and we must all try to understand you have your value in giving us the resources we need to make content, and we have our value as storytellers because of the effect we have on people when we tell our stories beautifully and properly, on the people that come to see them.”

“It’s about human dignity,” he concluded the video. “That’s what unions are about. It’s about being able to come home to your kids with a smile on your face and say, ‘I did this for you today so I got your first two years of college set up.’ It’s what we’re all after. I send you nothing but love. Peace out.”