Colin Farrell admitted how “weird” it was to transform into comic book villain The Penguin during the Tuesday (September 17) red carpet premiere in New York for the series centered on the character he first played Batman.
Farrell, 47, called it surprising to see his transformation into Oz Cobb during a red carpet chat with PEOPLE and other media.
“Do you ever see cats looking at themselves in the mirror? They simply don’t know how to back down [it’s them]?” he said and added: “It was weird.”
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Despite the dramatic costumes and make-up, he added: “It’s not that I ever completely lost my sense of myself, but it was a very powerful thing to know myself in a certain way for 45 years and see a reflection. And it also kind of made me aware of how much I identified with how I looked.”
“As soon as I looked in the mirror and none of me was there, then I had more of a blank slate than usual [going] to work,” he added, before crediting showrunner Lauren LeFranc and her team of writers for filling that “blank slate.”
“It was amazing,” he added. “It was really, really strong. It was something very powerful and very hypnotic about that experience.”
Colin Farrell at Lincoln Center on September 17, 2024 in New York City.
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In the May interview with The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunninghampraised the Oscar nominee the work of the make-up department to turn him into a “marionette” that he was able to animate.
The Sugar The artist Mike Marino is responsible for the star’s transformation into a penguin. “He created this beautiful puppet and I got to animate it, and it was a lot of fun,” Farrell said of the artist, who had previously worked with Farrell on Batman in 2022
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The A true detective the actor also told Diversity in January 2023, he craved more opportunities to play the character after working with Marina and makeup artist Mike Fontaine on just a few scenes in Batman.
“Honestly, every thought about an extended series was related to Mike Marino’s work. I just knew there was so much to do with it — dude, dude,” he said.
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Colin Farrell as The Penguin. Pictures by Warner Bros
The series was ordered straight to series in March 2022, almost immediately after the Robert Pattinson-led superhero film hit theaters.
Although Pattinson’s Batman will not be in the series, the eight-episode series stars Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O’Connell, Clancy Brown and Michael Zegen. It starts right after the events of Batmanand shows Oz trying to take a leading role in Gotham City’s underworld.
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Penguin premieres Thursday, September 19, at 9:00 p.m. on HBO and Max.
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