{"id":2299359,"date":"2026-02-25T14:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2299359"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:50:22","slug":"george-r-r-martin-says-network-censors-ruined-an-early-ron-perlman-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/george-r-r-martin-says-network-censors-ruined-an-early-ron-perlman-character\/","title":{"rendered":"George R.R. Martin Says Network Censors Ruined An Early Ron Perlman Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George R.R. Martin<\/a>‘s name is now synonymous with HBO’s “Game of Thrones<\/a>,” the beloved fantasy series based on his “A Song of Ice and Fire<\/a>” novels. Once upon a time, though, Martin was a writer on CBS’ “Beauty and the Beast<\/a>” series starring Linda Hamilton<\/a> and Ron Perlman<\/a>, and let’s just say the latter isn’t as wild as “Game of Thrones<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

In a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>, Martin recalled CBS’ censors demanding that Perlman’s character, Vincent, aka the Beast, be likable. They didn’t want viewers to feel disturbed or offended by the show’s content, whereas Martin wanted to add…<\/p>\n

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George R.R. Martin‘s name is now synonymous with HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the beloved fantasy series based on his “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels. Once upon a time, though, Martin was a writer on CBS’ “Beauty and the Beast” series starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman, and let’s just say the latter isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2299359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/George-RR-Martin-Says-Network-Censors-Ruined-An-Early-Ron.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299361,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299359\/revisions\/2299361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}