Colin Farrell on why he was scared of playing The Penguin

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Colin Farrell as The Penguin in " The="" Courtesy:="" Warner="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/04/29/20220429_colin-as-penguin-courtesy-warner-bros.jpg"/><figcaption>Colin Farrell as The Penguin in &#x27;The Batman.&#x27; <em>Courtesy: Warner Bros.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>In &#x27;The Batman,&#x27; Colin Farrell transformed into the infamous Gotham villain &#x27;The Penguin.&#x27;</p><p>The actor meanwhile leads the sci-fi film &#x27;After Yang,&#x27; directed by Kogonada, where he plays a father to a young girl and an android. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at this year&#x27;s Sundance Film Festival.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Colin Farrell. Courtesy: A24 " After="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/04/29/20220429_pic-2-after-yang-courtesy-a24.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Courtesy: A24 &#x27;After Yang&#x27;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Farrell noted that the two projects did not overlap for him. He also shared what he ideally does in between playing two different characters.</p><p>&quot;Ideally, for me, just get to go home. I&#x27;ve been fortunate enough to, at certain stages in the last 20 years, do what people call back-to-back where there&#x27;s just been a couple of weeks between jobs, and it&#x27;s fine. I&#x27;m not complaining, as I said, I’m very lucky to have that opportunity. But it&#x27;s really lovely if between projects you just get to get to be home, be with your family, be with your friends, and which is the source, you know. Just live a life away from it and then go back into it,&quot; he said.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Colin Farrell. Courtesy: A24 " After="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/tfc/04/29/20220429_pic-after-yang-courtesy-a24.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Courtesy: A24 &#x27;After Yang&#x27;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Farrell will reunite with his &#x27;The Penguin&#x27; character in an upcoming series for HBO. In successfully inhabiting the role, he credits the film&#x27;s prosthetic makeup designer Michael Marino as well as director and co-writer Matt Reeves.</p><p>&quot;I was intrigued and a little bit scared and I didn&#x27;t know what I could do with it and honest to God, it wasn&#x27;t until I saw Mike Marino&#x27;s makeup that I kind of went, &#x27;Ah. Ooh. I could feel the energy.&#x27; I could feel the energy of the writing more clearly when I saw Mike Marino&#x27;s makeup. And that was just a huge gift for me to inhabit that, and the suit and the whole thing.&quot;</p><p>&quot;But I just thought the script was really extraordinary. It just drew me in from the first page and it felt incredibly complex. And I had no idea where it was going. It just felt very fresh,&quot; Farrell added.</p><p>Robert Pattinson&#x27;s &#x27;The Batman&#x27; will get a sequel as announced at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of movie theater owners around the world. The film is still in select theaters and has also debuted on digital and HBO.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n84bB-OnrC0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

In successfully inhabiting the role of 'The Penguin,' actor Colin Farrell credits 'The Batman's' prosthetic makeup designer and director.

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Colin Farrell on why he was scared of playing The Penguin

Colin Farrell on why he was scared of playing The Penguin

Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

Published Apr 29, 2022 09:05 PM PHT

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Updated Apr 30, 2022 08:49 AM PHT

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