Colin Farrell reveals he ‘never wants to put that f***in suit on again’ for The Penguin

Irish actor Colin Farrell, known for his versatile performances, has revealed how he truly felt about playing Oz Cobb aka DC’s The Penguin.

In a recent interview with TotalFilm (via GamesRadar), he said he doesn’t know if he’s willing to do a second season of The Penguin.

“Don’t get me wrong, I loved it but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bit**ing and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I fu**ing wanted it to be finished.”

“I tried to remind them that I had ‘grumpy gratitude,'”, he added.

He continued: “I was still grateful, and still honoured, I grew up watching Burgess Meredith, and then Danny DeVito [both who played versions of The Penguin] was my Penguin so being a part of the lineage of that storytelling, I really did feel privileged.”

“But by the end of it…”

“It’s not like I didn’t know who I was and I was going out and burning cars and sh*t, but… if you take what Matt Reeves created and then what Lauren LeFranc [Showrunner] did and what Mike Marino [Prosthetics] did and put them all together, it was a really powerful experience.” 

He went on to say that if the Showrunner could make things easier, he would maybe consider playing the role again.

“Lauren said, ‘Look, if I could find a way that makes sense, would you talk about it?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely.'”

He added: “Maybe in a year I would. But when I finished I was like, ‘I never want to put that fu**ing suit and that fu**ing head on again.'”

The Penguin is released to the US on HBO on 19th September and September 20th on Sky for UK viewers.