Colin Farrell Goes ‘Beyond Insanity’ On ‘Hot Ones’, Calls His Penguin Look For ‘The Batman’ ‘Liberating’

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Colin Farrell is the latest celeb to land in the hot seat on “Hot Ones”. “My youngest boy, Henry, is very excited about me coming on,” Farrell says, admitting they watched a few episodes to prepare before digging into the wings. “It’s also breakfast so it’s a bit weird, just before the heat starts, it’s already a bit nasty already.” Dipping his finger in hot sauce before the challenge even begins, Farrell says doing so “did me a favour.” READ MORE: Colin Farrell Criticizes His Action Figure, Compares It With Patrick Stewart’s: ‘The Crotch is All Wrong’ “I messed myself up by having a dip of a later one, so the first one I didn’t even notice,” he says, adding he’s accidentally trailblazing a “Hot Ones” strategy. “Some of the best things I’ve done in my life have been accidents,” he laughs. “No intention on my part.” He admits, sometimes as an actor, “You read scripts and you don’t connect in any way and sometimes you need money so you go and do them anyway.

That’s happened a couple of times and even then, I’m very grateful. “But sometimes I get spoiled where I really feel I connected to the material, it means a lot to me.

I get to bring my uncertainty as a parent, my uncertainty as a partner in the past — I’m single now — my uncertainty as a friend, as a human being, ” Farrell says, citing the series “The North Water” and his latest, “After Yang”, as ones he really connected with. “I get to bring that to work, not as therapy per se, but it does come onto the dancefloor and I get to ask certain questions that I’ve already been asking myself, just as a man, you know.” READ MORE: Colin Farrell’s Son Is ‘Mortified’ His Dad Wears Short Shorts While Running Taking on the role of the Penguin in “The Batman”, Farrell