Ron Perlman on His First Time Playing a Woman in '3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom' (Video)

Fans of FXs biker drama Sons of Anarchy are accustomed to seeing Ron Perlman as Clay Morrow -- the larger-than-life leader of the California biker club. Even this season, suffering from a bullet wound and the loss of his leadership position, hes still one tough dude.

But fans of the show will be surprised to see Perlman in a whole new light as Phyllis, a post-op transgender in the upcoming comedy, 3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom.

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Im kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before its all over, Perlman tells The Hollywood Reporter. And so if there was ever gonna be an opportunity to play a woman, this was the one that really resonated because shes so deliciously conceived.

In an added twist, Perlman plays Phyllis opposite his Sons of Anarchy co-star, Charlie Hunnam. Hunnam plays Frankie, who is tasked with tracking down an embarrassing sex tape that his brother (Chris ODowd) is trying to release on the internet.

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Hunnam had originally shown the script for director Jordan Roberts 3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom to Perlman in hopes of getting him to play another character -- the father of Lizzy Caplans character. But Perlman asked for be considered for the part of Phyllis instead.

I just thought the image of Jax Teller and Clay Morrow, turned up on its ear, regardless of what happens after that moment, it was worth the price of admission, he says.

Perlman, who has played a wide variety of characters over the years, including roles that required a great deal of makeup such as in Hellboy, says it was his first time putting on drag, and led to some very painful physical treatments.

There are parts of me that were shaved for the very first time, that Im still itching as it grows back, he says.

Watch THRs interview with Perlman above.

3,2,1...Frankie Go Boom opens in theaters on October 12.

Email: Rebecca.Ford@thr.com; Twitter: @Beccamford

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Woman at Center of Roman Polanski Statutory Rape Case to Pen Memoir

The former teen whom Roman Polanski was convicted of sexually assaulting -- leading to one of Hollywood's most notorious scandals and the director's flight from the United States -- is writing a memoir.

Samantha Geimer, now 47, has a deal with Atria Books for The Girl: Emerging From the Shadow of Roman Polanski. Atria, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced on Tuesday that the book would come out next autumn.

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"I am more than 'Sex Victim Girl,' a tag the media pinned on me," said Geimer, who long ago identified herself as Polanski's victim, in a statement released through Atria. "I offer my story now without rage, but with purpose -- to share a tale that in its detail will reclaim my identity. I have been dogged by tired thinking and easy tags nearly my entire life. I am not a stick figure. I know what it is like to be a woman and a victim in the realest possible way."

Financial terms were not disclosed.

Last year, Polanski publicly apologized to Greimer in Laurent Bouzereau's documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir.

"She is a double victim: my victim and a victim of the press," he said near the end of the film, which was shot while Polanski was under house arrest in Switzerland three years ago awaiting possible extradition.

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