‘The Penguin’ Team on Building Up the ‘Batman’ Villain for HBO: ‘Power Corrupts. What’s He Gonna Do? Probably Some More Bad Stuff’

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The Penguin” finale shocked DC fans, the team behind HBO’s DC series gathered to discuss bringing their characters to life, with a panel led by Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz and Deirdre O’Connell, as well as showrunner Lauren LeFranc and executive producer Dylan Clark.

While Colin Farrell found himself sitting in the makeup chair for as long as three hours every day to become the Penguin, he described it as a “period of grace to start the day like that.” “It also gave me space just to get my head in the game for what was coming up that day because Oz’s journey through these eight hours is incredibly intense, with so much antagonism and so much deceit, of course, and so much violence,” Farrell said. “There were very few days that were dramatically light.” Oz’s relationship with Francis Cobb (Deirdre O’Connell) marks a core element of the show.

Of their complex connection, O’Connell said: “Oh, there’s so much, so much love and so much, so much hate that sometimes they almost cancel each other out.

It’s very, very intense and it’s very passionate on both sides. I think she loves him so much and she also hates him pretty deeply.” While “The Penguin” is deeply entrenched in the world established in Matt Reeves’ 2022 blockbuster “The Batman,” Feliz saw the opportunity to play Victor Aguilar, an original character not from DC Comics, to be particularly freeing. “There weren’t any restrictions on what was going on,” Feliz said. “It was always an open conversation between me and Lauren about where we wanted this character to live, just like tone-wise and feeling-wise.” The significance of bringing a comic book character to life wasn’t lost on Sofia Falcone actress Milioti, who says she felt pressure to seize such a.