Holy spinoff!
Golden Globes 2023 nominee Colin Farrell is getting ready to flap his water wings once more in “The Penguin,” an HBO Max limited series where the actor will reprise the villainous role he played in the 2022 b🍸lockbuster “The Batman.” (Take that, Robert Patt🎃inson!)
Before filming the big-budget superhero flick, the 46-year-old Irishman had no clue that his characte🎉r was going to get his own show, intended to bridge the gap between “The Batman” and its sequel.
“The only thing I had an idea was that I wasn’t nearly getting to explore the character as much as I wanted to,” Farrell Thursday night at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, where he received the Desert Palm Achievement Award for his performance in “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
“There was all this extraordinary work done by [makeup artists] Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine and his team, and I just thought it was the tip of the iceberg, pardon the pun, that we were getting to do the six or seven scenes that we did in the film. I was grateful for them, but I wanted more,” Farrell said.
In fact, he gives full credit to the makeup magic for getting him to sign on for “The Penguin,” which he will also exec▨utive produce.
“Honest to god, any thought I had about an extended series was to do with Mike Marino’s work,” said Farrell, who previously starred in HBO’s “True Detecti🔜ve.” “I just knew there was so much to do with it — age it up, age it down. He’s just such a genius, Mike, so🐭 it was his work that was the inspiration, really.”
Indeed, the makeup so completely transformed the “Minority Report” star that he went unrecognized at a Starbucks in Ireland during filming.
“They’re cool about it in Ireland. People don’t be looking,” said Farrell, who ꦰwill begin shooting “The Penguin” in February, with no premiere date scheduled yet. “People don’t be paying as much att🐷ention as you think!”
But before he goes back into devious disguise as “The Penguin,” Farrell will be hitting the Golden Globes Tuesday night. After winning for “In Bruges” in 2009, this year he’s up for best actor in a comedy for “.”
The dark comedy — about two lifelo𒆙ng friends whose bond is broken — has capped a comeb🃏ack for Farrell, who also starred in “Thirteen Lives” and “After Yang” in 2022.
“I’ve spoken to a couple of people about ‘Banshees’ or they’ve spoken to me about how they felt less alone watching the film,” Farrell told Vanity Fair. “And when the questions that I hold, just as a human being, are exposed to be as communal as I truly wish them to be, that’s a lovely thing. It makes me feel less alone as ﷽well.”
