David Hyde Pierce comments on why he didn't return as the voice of Abe Sapien in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy sequel. Hellboy: The Crooked Man is set during the 1950s in rural Appalachia.

"We did not know at that time that either one of us was gay, and we just hung out as best friends," David Hyde Pierce tells PEOPLE about first meeting his now-husband, Brian Hargrove, in 1982 ...