Colin Farrell’s Penguin look inspired by Fredo from ‘The Godfather’
nme.comColin Farrell’s look in the new Penguin series was inspired by Fredo from The Godfather, it has been revealed.Starring Farrell as the DC supervillain alongside How I Met Your Mother’s Cristin Milioti and Runaways’ Rhenzy Feliz, the new HBO show is scheduled to debut in the US on HBO Max on September 19 and Sky Atlantic/NOW today (September 20).
Also joining the cast are Clancy Brown, Michael Zegen, Michael Kelly and Mark Strong.Farrell is unrecognisable as gangster Oz Cobb in the series, having undergone lengthy make-up and prosthetics to turn him into the villain.Speaking about the inspiration for the look of the character, director Matt Reeves said The Godfather was something they spoke about ahead of filming.He explained: “We talked a lot about Fredo.
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,” Reeves told Deadline.He continued: “All of a sudden one day [prosthetics designer] Mike Marino said, ‘Let me show you what I’ve been working on.’ 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.
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