00:00Talk to me about your relationship with the penguin because it's an interesting one.
00:05You play the penguin's mother, right?
00:07Yes, I'm his mom. Yep, yep.
00:10It's an interesting but complicated relationship, I would say.
00:13So talk to us as much as you can about it.
00:16I can talk very little about it except to say that it's a deep, deep love and a deep, deep hate.
00:21And both things are very earned.
00:24And Colin and I were just lucky to be hit by the acting stick
00:29that sometimes hits you where you're just like, oh, you.
00:32I can do anything to you. You can do anything to me.
00:34Once in a while you get that and we had that experience.
00:37It was like lightning in a bottle.
00:39So I feel like, yeah, we were able to really trust each other
00:43and really find, you know, all the juice that was in there.
00:48Well, Colin is insane in this role.
00:51He completely transforms into this character.
00:54What was it like kind of acting opposite him in this series?
00:57I think that it was easier for me to act opposite him when he had the full prosthetic
01:02than it would have been if somebody had said,
01:04oh, now you're just going to act with the beautiful, talented, kind, mesmerizing Colin Farrell.
01:11I think I was a little like, ah, how am I going to do that?
01:14As soon as he put on the full regalia, I was like, oh, you.
01:17I can do this with you.
01:18So I really think it would have been harder if it was switched the other way around.
01:23When I meet him in real life, I'm like, oh, right, right.
01:26Of course, I know you. I've been with you for a year.
01:28It's hard for him because he'll be like, Dee Dee, and I'll be like, oh, right.
01:32You really have to separate the two.
01:33Yeah, well, he's on the carpet tonight, too, so I'm sure it's like, whoo, I'm re-meeting this person again.
01:37Yeah, yeah, we've had a couple of days together now,
01:39so it's not quite as weird as it was for me and him both the first day when we saw each other
01:44because we really had no time together when he was just, you know, Colin.
01:50Well, a lot of people, you know, in recent days have been likening the show to The Sopranos.
01:54So what do you sort of make of those comparisons?
01:57Well, I love The Sopranos, personally.
01:59I thought it was one of the more amazing things I had ever seen, I remember, when it first came out.
02:04And so I feel like, yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it.
02:09I mean, I think we're lucky to get that comparison.
02:12Yeah, well, I know that, you know, there's a lot of supervillain stories that are out there right now.
02:17Well, what's one thing that people might be surprised to learn about Penguin Story?
02:23It's about a little boy who feels invisible and feels betrayed and feels—
02:34and he's finding his way through it.
02:36So in a funny way, it's that little boy is the constant in our show.
02:42And so the mother and he working their thing out, it's very central to the way that it works.
02:48But I feel like there's something about—you cannot find the lines.
02:55You cannot find the space between him and Oz.
02:58I've tried to for a year and you can't see it, so you can give up on that.
03:02But you are going to see him open his heart to playing this guy.
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