'The Penguin' Interviews With Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Matt Reeves And More

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Colin Farrell, Matt Reeves, Cristin Milioti and their fellow cast and crew sit down to discuss the premiere of "The Penguin," the follow-up to Matt Reeves' acclaimed film "The Batman." Colin Farrell and Penguin's designer Mike Marino detail the approach to Oswald Cobblepot's clubfoot prosthetic, the extreme levels of detail that didn't make it into the show (NSFW) and how the cast and crew forgot they were even working with Colin Farrell while shooting. Matt Reeves, who serves as executive producer on the series, takes us back to Penguin's appearance in "The Batman," sharing how the character's arc continues from someone who lacked respect in the criminal underworld of Gotham, to the kingpin who eventually runs it.

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00:00there was no weakness in my penguin pecker no there wasn't there wasn't there was no weakness

00:04which we never filmed yeah oh yeah it was there man it was there anatomic i was fully anatomically

00:10correct

00:27colin i want to know what does oz feel about the nickname the penguin oh not a fan yeah not a fan i

00:34mean it's never been used in any way but a derogatory way you know anyone that uses it whether it's

00:40michael kelly's johnny veeddy or whoever it may be in the show they're using it to put him down

00:45and he's somebody that's he's been put down a lot in his life and he's been kind of pushed outside

00:49of the communal experience and and he's been made feel like a quote unquote cripple he's been called

00:55a cripple he's been laughed at so it's something that he doesn't truck with at all matt please let

01:00swearing and f-bombs be part of your script for batman part two it's necessary roland turns them

01:07into poetry please you know there's i mean isn't that what's so exciting on the show to really be

01:11able to be unleashed i will say we had uh happy halloween uh from alex ferns which is that was a

01:18very well delivered line too he did it great yeah and so you know we're as unleashed as we can be in the

01:27movies uh in pg-13 but uh it is really exciting to be able to hear oz's voice in full flower i mean

01:34he gets very poetic with his use of profanity which is also fun for us to be able to do really focus in

01:40on in the movie exploration with rob's character the batman to be in a certain tonal lane but then to

01:47also then shift gears and go into you know our first series with the penguin of you know obviously a very

01:52well-known marquee character um played by the great colin farrell and go into a different lane

01:57and that's creatively really um exciting and i think it's fun for the fans too oh i didn't mean to

02:04interrupt sophia i thought you were still at uh arkham

02:13no i've been rehabilitated i spent a year with oz yeah i wouldn't really see colin

02:22out of makeup i i think i've seen colin out of makeup three times okay and it was all in like

02:28pre-production it's very strange when i hear his voice it really flips me out and and certainly when

02:33i see him in his like real form because i associate those eyes and that voice with someone who i spent

02:39a year with right who is not real but feels like a person i know better that like it's so hard to

02:47describe your brain is telling you the person you know is the person who your brain sees that you're

02:52talking to now deep down i know that it's colin but on the surface it's like a magic trick on the

02:58surface level it feels like that's what's really happening there would be times where like i wouldn't

03:02you know it isn't colin farrell it was a different person and it was a different he was not uh that

03:09when he was in uh you know in between takes he stayed he stayed in the voice and stayed in the the

03:16the the physicality of it and i like would get worried about his leg you know just like like my

03:22brain would be like no he's he's i would forget that he didn't actually have a disability yes i you

03:28know never saw him without it for the whole time that we were working together and i never needed to

03:35sort of handle the nervousness that somebody might have when you're working with somebody who a movie

03:42star who you are such a huge fan of so i never had to think about the colin farrellness of it all

03:50you promised me i was a wolf i know i deserve that life i'm working on it knowing that people

03:57haven't seen it what's the one word you would use to describe francis's relationship with oz

04:03that's great that's fantastic yes and very true i'm at times desperate for them to heal their wounds

04:16or evolve out of you know some of this psychological dysfunction but i'm also i'm entertained by it at

04:23moments i'm horrified by it at moments it's true i know they're delightful and they're and it's

04:28heartbreaking and it's wrenching you're like whoa that is and it's demented you're going i mean

04:33weaponized is a great word it's like and that was the thing you know from the beginning what

04:36we're talking about is the idea of if we wanted to do this gangster tale that it's all about you

04:41know in a dark american dream story when you're doing a gangster tale it's always about what's driving

04:46the character and what's creating the void within that character that makes them be willing to go at

04:51any lengths to get what they want to grasp at power at money at something to look for recognition and so

04:57that's why that relationship is so key because she's the answer their relationship and their past is

05:02the answer to that hole those broken places in oz and the broken places that they both share it's

05:08really it's very messed up it's it's quite something matt is a smart guy or is he just super smart like

05:16colin i think he's super bright i mean he is fast on his feet he's like jazz he can respond in the moment

05:22and he is i think he has got an exceptional intelligence absolutely i mean i think he um that's the thing i think

05:28he's easily underestimated and that was the that was the initial sort of idea for him in the movie was

05:36this idea that here's this character that we know becomes the kingpin who when batman first encounters

05:41him and he sort of is threatening him uh oz says back to him you better watch it you know my reputation

05:49yeah i do do you and the idea is that people think he's a joke but he's no joke as we see in the

05:56series america's a hustle

06:05not that i'm complaining mike i need to ask you about the creation of oz's feet i only want to talk

06:10about oz's feet for if we could um i think it's the first time in live action that we actually get to

06:16see the feet can you elaborate on the design some of the conversations you had about them well if you

06:20think of uh the namesake penguin i mean you think immediately of a shape of a body you think of the

06:25way they walk and the way their faces and you know their their whole it's part of them you know um so

06:33you can't call a villain the penguin without having something that inspires why so i think in the show

06:40we figure out why what's creating his walk what's creating part of why they call him the penguin so

06:48we were looking at references that were kind of like oh you know i i actually thought it was really

06:52interesting that it was like right like this talks about class just in the fact that this person is a

06:58person that couldn't have gotten the surgeries that you would need for that like we're having a

07:03conversation even if we're just talking about it existing in a way it's not a fantasy birdfoot you know

07:09it's something that may resemble something non-human or something that is very human

07:15you know um a a weakness you know something that may inspire why he does certain things or may inspire

07:23uh you know his persona and what what why people call him a certain thing so uh it was interesting

07:30to do there was no weakness in my penguin pecker no there was designed there wasn't there was no

07:34weakness which we never filmed yeah oh yeah it was there man it was there i was fully anatomically

07:40correct listen sal carmine falcon is dead and i'm here now i'll be calling the shots

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