Colin Farrell Jokes 'It's Prosthetics Here on Out' After Golden Globes 2025 Win for The Penguin

Colin Farrell won big at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 5, taking home the trophy for Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series.

The award, Farrell’s third Golden Globe ever, was presented in honor of his performance in the Penguin. In the series, Max Farrell reprized his role as the evil gangster from Gotham, which he first played in Matt Reeves’ 2022 film. Batman.

For the role, Farrell underwent a massive physical transformation, spending three hours a day applying makeup to transform into Oswald Cobblepot. ”

“There’s no one to thank for this. I did it all by myself,” joked Farrell as he took the stage. “Just a raw away performance.”

He went on to thank makeup artist Michael Marino, who designed Penguin’s look, as well as his “extraordinary” team. All it took was three hours in the morning in the chair, Farrell explained. “I drank black coffee, listened to 80s music and became a canvas for the brilliance of that crew.”

“I guess it’s a prosthetic for here,” he teased.

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Colin Farrell in ‘The Penguin’.

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Farrell, 48, opened up to PEOPLE in September about becoming a Penguin.

“I had a bodysuit on, so I was mostly covered from wrist to ankle. The only thing that was me was my hands and feet,” he explained. “Everything else, including the ears, were parts. Everything was covered.”

An eight-episode limited series, continuing after the events of Robert PattinsonBatmanfollowed Oz as he attempted to assume a new leadership role in Gotham City’s underworld.

Elsewhere in his speech, Farrell gave thanks Penguinhis creative team, his colleagues, and even someone from the craft services team.

“Carolina, on those cold winter nights in New York, where I was the only one who overheated, came with coconut water every half hour. Carolina, God bless you. She kept the whole team going.”

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(L-R) Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in ‘Baby Reindeer’.

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Other nominees on Sunday included Richard Gadd, Kevin Kline, Cooper Koch, Ewan McGregor and Andrew Scott. Each of them had an outstanding year.

Gadd, 35, is nominated for his performance in Baby reindeer.

In the hit Netflix series, the actor plays a version of himself – a bartender who ends up with a stalker named Martha (Jessica Gunning) – after he offers her a cup of tea while working in a London pub.

The real Martha, Fiona Harvey, sued Netflix in June for $140 million, claiming that the streaming service and Gadd allowed viewers to easily identify her and destroy her livelihood. Harvey, 48, believes the portrayal of Martha is defamatory and inaccurate. Still, the seven-episode series drew enough viewers to become Netflix’s 10th most-watched English-language series since June.

“I don’t think anyone thought it would be a stratospheric, Emmy-nominated success. And it was overnight,” Gadd said. The Hollywood Reporter.

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Kevin Kline in ‘Disclaimer’.

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Kline (77) was nominated for his performance in Waiver.

Waiverbased on Renée Knight’s bestseller of the same name, it followed acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett), who “built her reputation by uncovering the misdeeds and transgressions of others,” according to the official synopsis.

But when Catherine is sent a novel by an unknown author, “she is horrified to realize that she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.”

While trying to find out the writer’s true identity, she must “face her past before it destroys her own life” and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

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Cooper Koch in “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”

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Koch, 28, was nominated for his performance as Erik Menendez in the Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.

The Ryan Murphy-led Netflix series has brought one of the most notorious crime cases of the 1990s back to the fore. The series examined how and why Erik and Lyle Menendez (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) killed their parents, José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty (Chloe Sevigny) — including the brothers’ accusations in court that their parents were sexually and emotionally abusive.

Koch told PEOPLE the approval is a “big moment” for the brothers, who were recommended by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón to be re-sentenced in October. “That’s what I’m most excited about, is that they got a big stage,” he said of the importance of the show’s recognition, adding that he can’t wait to share the news with the Menendez brothers.

Koch also previously described his meeting with Erik, telling Deadline, “Preparing to play him was, in a way, preparing to meet him at the same time. Because in preparing to play him, I developed such care and truth – I just care so much about him.”

He added: “I trust him, I think he’s an amazing human being. And so, after playing with him, getting to know him was so rewarding and special and one of the most amazing experiences I think I’ll ever have in my life.”

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(L) Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’.

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McGregor, 53, was nominated for his performance in Mr. in Moscow.

In the Paramount+ series, McGregor plays Russian aristocrat Alexander Rostov, who avoids death by being placed under house arrest during the Bolshevik Revolution. He stars opposite his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays actress Anna Urbanova and Rostov’s love interest.

The series is based on the 2016 novel Mr. in Moscow by Amor Towle.

The actor previously talked about using an intimacy coordinator for his sex scenes.

“It’s strange to be naked in front of people, it’s strange to be intimate in front of cameras,” he told za Radio Timesper Diversity. “If you were doing a dance scene, you would have a choreographer. Now that’s an important part of the job, because it’s someone the director and the actors meet in the middle.”

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Andrew Scott in ‘Ripley’.

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Netflix’s Ripley, based on A 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith The talented Mr. Ripley, stars Scott, 48, as con man Tom Ripley. The story has already been told in the 1999 film The talented Mr. Ripley starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, and Scott wanted to put a new twist on the story.

“People have a lot of preconceptions about Tom Ripley,” Scott told Netflix’s Tudum in July. “So my job, I guess in a way, is to ignore all that and try to create our own version of it.”

In addition to Scott, the series and his co-star Dakota Fanning were also nominated for best limited series and actress in a supporting role.

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