It's the Time of the Season for Ron Perlman

Chris Radtke:  Season of the Witch, what attracted you to the project? To me it looks like the coolest Dungeons and Dragons mission I've ever seen in a movie, with swords and devils and all sorts of madness.

Ron Perlman: What initially attracted me was the combination of names attached: Nic Cage, Dominic Cena, Chuck Roven, Alex Gartner. Then, I read the script and I said "Great Googley-Moogley" this is too good to be true! I play Nic Cage's bosom buddy. You know, it's me and him the whole movie shoulder-to-shoulder, belly-to-belly, etc. So I approached it with no small amount of enthusiasm.

Chris Radtke: Did you have to do any kind of training for this role?

Ron Perlman: Well I had to get my horse skills a little sharper than they had been. I had to get my sword skills a little bit sharper than they have been. Especially for the particular period we were depicting because every period had its own unique approach to the broadsword.

Chris Radtke: You had experience with sword fighting before?

Ron Perlman: Yeah but you know, like I said, each one of these styles of fighting depending on the period are unique unto themselves so you want to get with whomever is doing the choreography and get a real kind of immersion into the fighting style, so you look like you're the master you are being depicted as.