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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
00:13correct
00:27colin i want to know what does oz feel about the nickname the penguin oh not a fan yeah not
00:34a fan
00:34i mean it's never been used in any way but a derogatory way you know anyone that uses it
00:39whether it's michael kelly's johnny veedy or whoever it may be in the show they're using it to put him
00:44down and he's somebody that's he's been put down a lot in his life and he's been kind of pushed
00:49outside of the communal experience and and he's been made feel like a quote-unquote cripple he's
00:55been called a cripple he's been laughed at so it's something that he doesn't truck with at all matt
00:59please let swearing and f-bombs be part of your script for batman part two it's necessary
01:05and turns them into poetry please you know there's i mean isn't that what's so exciting on the show to
01:11really be able to be unleashed i will say we had uh happy halloween uh from alex ferns which is
01:18that
01:18was a very well delivered line too he did it great yeah uh and so you know we're as unleashed
01:26as we can
01:26be in the movies uh in pg-13 but uh it is really exciting to be able to hear oz's
01:32voice in full
01:33flower i mean he gets very poetic with his use of profanity which is also fun for us to be
01:39able to do
01:39really focus in on in the movie exploration with rob's character the batman to be in a certain tonal
01:45lane but then to also then shift gears and go into you know our first series with the penguin of
01:51you know
01:51obviously a very well-known marquee character um played by the great colin farrell and go into
01:57a different lane and that's creatively really um exciting and i think it's fun for the fans too
02:03oh i didn't mean to interrupt sofia i thought you were still at uh arkham
02:15no i've been rehabilitated
02:18i spent a year with oz yeah i wouldn't really see colin out of makeup i i think i've seen
02:24colin out
02:24of makeup three times okay and it was all in like pre-production it's very strange when i hear his
02:30voice
02:31it really flips me out and and certainly when i see him in his like real form because i associate
02:36those eyes and that voice with someone who i spent a year with right who is not real but feels
02:42like a person i know better that like it's so hard to describe your brain is telling you the person
02:50you know is the person who your brain sees that you're talking to now deep down i know that it's
02:55colin but on the surface it's like a magic trick on the surface level it feels like that's what's
02:59really happening there would be times where like i wouldn't you know it isn't colin farrell it was a
03:05different person and it was a different he was not uh that when he was in uh you know in
03:11between
03:11takes he stayed he stayed in the voice and stayed in the the the physicality of it and i like
03:18would
03:18get worried about his leg you know just like like my brain would be like no he's he's i would
03:25forget
03:25that he didn't actually have a disability yes i you know never saw him without it for the whole time
03:33that we were working together and i never needed to sort of handle the nervousness that somebody might
03:38have when you're working with somebody who a movie star who you are such a huge fan of so i
03:44never had
03:45to think about the colin farrellness of it all life is just a dream you promised me oswald i know
03:53that
03:53i deserve that life i'm working on it knowing that people haven't seen it what's the one word you would
03:59use to describe francis's relationship with oz weaponized that made you happy that's great that's
04:11fantastic yes and very true i'm at times desperate for them to heal their wounds or evolve out of you
04:18know some of this psychological dysfunction but i'm also i'm entertained by it at moments i'm horrified
04:24by it at moments it's true i know they're delightful and they're and it's heartbreaking and it's
04:29wrenching you're like whoa that is and it's demented you're going weaponized is a great word it's like
04:34and that was the thing you know from the beginning what we're talking about is the idea of if we
04:38wanted
04:38to do this gangster tale that it's all about you know in a dark american dream story when you're doing
04:43a gangster tale it's always about what's driving the character and what's creating the void within that
04:49character that makes them be willing to go at any lengths to get what they want to grasp at power
04:54at money at something to look for recognition and so that's why that relationship is so key because
04:59she's the answer their relationship and their past is the answer to that hole those broken places in oz
05:06and the broken places that they both share it's really it's very messed up it's it's quite something
05:11matt is oz a smart guy or is he oh super smart like colin i think he's super bright i
05:18mean
05:19he is fast on his feet he's like jazz he can respond in the moment and he is i think
05:24he has
05:24got an exceptional intelligence absolutely i mean i think he um that's the thing i think he's easily
05:30underestimated and that was the that was the initial sort of idea for him in the movie was this
05:36idea 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 oz says back to him you better watch it you know my
05:48reputation
05:48yeah i do do you and the idea is that people think he's a joke but he's no joke as
05:55we see in the
05:56series there because i hustle
06:05not that i'm complaining mike i need to ask you about the creation of oz's feet i only want to
06:10talk
06:10about oz's feet for if we could um i think it's the first time in live action that we actually
06:16get
06:16to see the feet can you elaborate on the design some of the conversations you had about them well
06:20if you think of uh the namesake penguin i mean you think immediately of a shape of a body you
06:25think of
06:25the way they walk and the way their faces and you know their their whole it's part of them you
06:31know um
06:32so you can't call a villain the penguin without having something that inspires why so i think in the
06:40show we figure out why what's creating his walk what's creating part of why they call him the
06:47penguin so we were looking at references that were kind of like oh you know i i actually thought it
06:52was
06:52really interesting that it was like right like this talks about class just in the fact that this person
06:57is a person 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
07:09know it's something that may resemble something non-human or something that is very human you know
07:16um 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
07:30do there was no weakness in my penguin pecker no there wasn't there wasn't there was no weakness
07:34which we never filmed yeah oh yeah it was there man it was there anatomically 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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