Colin Farrell doesn’t mind being followed.
During an interview on Sirius XM’s The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunninghampraised the Oscar-nominated actor Penguinthe work of his make-up department to turn him into a “puppet” that he was able to animate.
Farrell, 47, called the makeup in the upcoming Max series “remarkable stuff” and credited artist Mike Marino as the mastermind behind Penguin’s aesthetic.
“He created a puppet, and I’m a puppet, that’s how I imagine it. It feels like a description of what happened on the nose,” explained the actor. “He created this beautiful puppet and I got to animate it, and it was a lot of fun.”
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Colin Farrell as The Penguin.
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Farrell previously talked about working with Marina and fellow makeup artist Mike Fontaine in a January 2023 interview. Diversity. The Banshees Inisherina The star said there were only a few scenes with the Penguin in the 2022 film and he wanted more.
“I just knew there was so much to do with it — getting old, getting old,” he said at the time.
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While he didn’t go into details about the upcoming show during his appearance on SiriusXM, Farrell said he hopes audiences will enjoy the Oswald Copplebot spinoff.
“A lot of great people put a lot of effort into it,” he said.
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Farrell first played the Penguin in the 2022 film Batman. The film’s box office success was what prompted a spinoff series featuring the Gotham City villain to be ordered straight to series.
Penguin premiere in the fall of 2024 on Max.
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