Josh Brolin who plays the titan Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War recently opened up about the character and asserted that the film would reveal flashbacks to Thanos’ troubled childhood and adolescence.

He stated, “He’s different from his family. They’re all Titans and they all look similar, but he was born deformed. You see how he grew up, you see he was like the Quasimodo of this time. He stuck out. He was anomaly. He was a freak. And that lent to his apparent insanity.”

In the film, Thanos’ world is destroyed and he grows up to develop a plan that the only way to balance the universe is to acquire the absolute power provided by the Infinity Stones and use them to wipe out half the life in the universe.

However, Brolin insists the character is smart, compassionate, even sympathetic. He said, “You see this lughead and this guy who you pigeonhole right from the first cosmetic reaction to him. And what I see is in this guy’s eyes. This super, super, super intelligence. There’s this constant, contrasting thing about this Neanderthalic lughead who’s way more intelligent than anybody else in the movie, by far.”

Avengers: Infinity War is set to hit theaters on April 27.