00:00Talk to me about your relationship with the penguin, because it's an interesting one.
00:05You play the penguin's mother, right?
00:06Yes, I'm his mom. Yep, yep.
00:09It's an interesting but complicated relationship, I would say.
00:12So talk to us as much as you can about it.
00:15I 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.
00:23And Colin and I were just lucky to be hit by the acting stick that sometimes hits you where you're just like,
00:30Oh, you. I can do anything to you. You can do anything to me.
00:33Once in a while you get that, and we had that experience.
00:37It was like lightning in a bottle.
00:38So I feel like, yeah, we were able to really trust each other and really find all the juice that was in there.
00:47Well, Colin is insane in this role.
00:51He completely transforms into this character.
00:53What was it like kind of acting opposite him in this series?
00:56I 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,
01:03Oh, now you're just going to act with the beautiful, talented, kind, mesmerizing Colin Farrell.
01:10I think I was a little like, Ah, how am I going to do that?
01:13As soon as he put on the full regalia, I was like, Oh, you.
01:16I can do this with you.
01:17So I really think it would have been harder if it would switch the other way around.
01:22When I meet him in real life, I'm like, Oh, right, right.
01:25Of course, I know you. I've been with you for a year.
01:27It's hard for him because he'll be like, Deedee.
01:30And I'll be like, Oh, right.
01:31You really have to separate the two.
01:33Yeah, well, he's on the carpet tonight, too.
01:34So I'm sure it's like, Oh, I'm re-meeting this person again.
01:36Yeah, we've had a couple of days together now, so 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.
02:09I'll take it.
02:10I 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.
02:18Well, what's one thing that people might be surprised to learn about Penguin Story?
02:22It's about a little boy who feels invisible and feels betrayed and feels, and he's finding his way, so in a funny way, it's that little boy is the constant in that, 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, you 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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