The Penguin: How Colin Farrell transformed into one of Batman’s most famous villains

Without knowledge of the casting list, it would be virtually impossible to name Colin Farrell as the actor playing Oz Cobb in The Penguin.

That’s a credit to the incredible prosthetics and makeup applied to Farrell to complete the unrecognizable transformation.

Recommended Videos “We talked a lot about Fredo,” Reeves told Deadline. “We talked about John Cazale in The Godfather and the idea of maybe trying to give him a penguin nose or doing something to kind of mess up Colin’s face to get the sense of somebody who’d been overlooked, somebody who had this ambition inside of him, but who was mocked and who had been looked down upon.”

“All of a sudden one day, Mike Marino said, ‘Let me show you what I’ve been working on,'” Reeves explained. “Mike is an incredible artist, and he did this sculpture. I’m telling you, the sculpture was exactly the way that Oz looks right now. It’s incredible. And I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ We had never said, ‘Let’s just take Colin and turn him into something that we’ve never seen before.’ I said, ‘this is Colin Farrell. I got to now tell the studio he’s not going to look like Colin Farrell.

“I was never nervous,” said Sarah Aubrey, HBO Max’s Head of Originals. “We got an early glimpse of Colin’s work as Oz in The Batman and knew that this was a powerhouse performance … ferocious, witty, vulnerable, diabolical. And all of that could be the jet fuel for an epic series.”

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