Colin Farrell on The Penguin: "I never want to put that fucking suit and that fucking head on again"

Perhaps it was some sort of cruel joke, picking Colin Farrell’s Penguin as the character to base a spin-off show around. The actor is the only character in The Batman universe who wears such heavy make-up and prosthetics, which gave Farrell quite the mixed bag of feelings when he returned for the series.

“Don’t get me wrong – I loved it – but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bitching and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I fucking wanted it to be finished,” Farrell told Total Film (via GamesRadar). “I tried to remind them that I had ‘grumpy gratitude.’ I was still grateful, and still honoured.”

“But by the end of it,” he continues. “When I finished I was like, ‘I never want to put that fucking suit and that fucking head on again.'”

Depending on the script for The Batman: Part 2, we could see Oz back in action again. Perhaps on this occasion, Matt Reeves could write in a serious weight-loss programme for The Penguin, so Farrell would only have to wear the make-up and nose.