With HBO’s “The Penguin” having just wrapped its first season, Colin Farrell has made it clear this won’t be the last we’ll see of his Oz Cobb character.
When the show’s launch press was underway, Farrell detailed the grueling makeup he had to go through for the character befor adding: “I never want to put on that f—- suit and f—- head again.”
However the series launched and scored critical acclaim along with fan praise, awards buzz and strong ratings that have grown as the season progresses.
We do know Farrell is expected back for Matt Reeves’ “The Batman: Part II” film, but it turns out the Irish actor has signed on for the whole trilogy. He tells THR that he’s keen to see how the story of the TV series will impact his character in the films going forward:
“I signed up for three Batman films, but I didn’t know if I’d be in the second film… what I’m most excited-slash-nervous about in the second film is not what Oz does – or what predicaments he finds himself in, or what moments of success he gets to experience – but what his voice is. How is his personality?
It was forming and changing in the limited series, and, by the end of the eight episodes, it’s concretized into something else. There is a degree of almost delusion psychopathy present in the last scene.
So how is that taken up in the second film? I was told I have five or six scenes. I don’t have any hopes or any expectations. I’m really an open book, and that’s the way I get excited by s— or not.
He was also asked about the possibility of returning for a second season of “The Penguin” to which he says: “If there’s a great idea [for season two], and the writing was really muscular and as strong or stronger on the page than it was the first season, of course I would do it.”
The full season of “The Penguin” is now available on Max.
