'There it is,' said Colin Farrell when seeing co-star Robert Pattinson in costume for the first time on set of The Batman. An unrecognizable Farrell plays ...
You can really feel — there's so much history that's imbued in the suit and the iconography of it — and you can really feel it when you put it on." So you've gone through the whole thing of fan reaction, then your own reaction, then the fan reaction, then trying to prepare for it and reading the most untold number of graphic novels," he said. They were just finishing a shot up on the roof with Batman, and swear to God: he was looking down, the cape was blowing in the wind, he was backlit, I could see the cowl, the two ears sticking up.
Colin Farrell's portrayal of The Batman's Penguin has caused a lot of double takes -- but how did Kelly Clarkson first react to seeing him in character?
While the initial shock of seeing him in costume may have worn off by the time the series premieres, it seems likely that Matt Reeves will have some surprises in store for the upcoming origin story. CinemaBlend’s Eric Eisenberg said in his review of The Batman that Farrell gave one of the film’s standout performances. The person in question is Mike Marino, the Batman SFX specialist responsible for the actor's Penguin prosthetics.
Colin Farrell, who plays Penguin in "The Batman," sat down with "Hot Ones" host Sean Evans for a far-ranging interview covering superhero movies, accents, ...
He may not remember if Al Pacino actually damaged a car that was used in The Recruit, but by the end of the episode he's likely someone you'd be thrilled to sit down and chat with over a pint. Farrell comes off as down-to-Earth and engaged in the show's process. Hot Ones host Sean Evans is very good at what he does, and big credit to the show's crack team of researchers, too.
With 'The Batman' and 'After Yang' now in theaters, we're looking back on Colin Farrell's iconic performances, from indie films to action movies.
Enter 2015's The Lobster, starring Farrell as David, a schlubby man who, after his wife leaves him, is mandated as a single person to go to a hotel for 45 days and if he cannot find a partner in that timeframe, he'll be turned into an animal. For a man who looks like he does, Colin Farrell manages to be quite the shapeshifter, using his symmetrical face and floppy hair to play a cavalcade of sleezes and assholes. Farrell really is a perfect match for the Irish cynicism of Martin McDonagh, and that's perfectly on display in In Bruges. Here, he plays a depressed, misanthropic assassin who accidentally killed a child during a hit, and has been quasi banished to the quaint Brussels town of the title to await more instructions. In his charged-up dealings with Jamie Foxx's "Tubbs" and his speed-boat romance with Gong Li's Isabella, Farrell finds poetry and grace in a part that could have felt like an empty exercise in cool-guy iconography. Colin Farrell's gift is that he's a character actor in the body of an absolute dreamboat, and there's no greater evidence of this than his performance in Steve McQueen's Widows. When he's not coated in prosthetics, like he is playing the Penguin in The Batman, he uses those good looks to his advantage playing slimy creatures like alderman Jack Mulligan. In McQueen's underrated and fascinating heist film, Jack exemplifies a kind of old white Chicago politician with only thinly veiled disdain for the Black people he ostensibly represents. Farrell's observant interpretation finds a father trying to relate to his daughter through the prism of the robot she loves. Farrell lets that come through even when McQueen doesn't focus on his face: In the best scene we hear his dialogue even as the camera stays focused on the outside of his car. In the film he plays Jake, a tea shop owner living in a futuristic city. John Smith is a near-mythic figure in American history, but in Terrence Malick's lyrical depiction of the settlement of Virginia, Colin Farrell lends the reluctant explorer a rugged, rough around the edges characterization that melds well with Malick's mournful and complex version of our country's discovery. When the precogs suddenly predict that one of the program's officers, John Anderton (Cruise), is about to commit a murder, Witwer leads the manhunt for Anderton when the suspect goes into hiding. (It helps that Jack Bauer himself, Kiefer Sutherland, voices the pissed-off sniper.) Schumacher cast Farrell in the Vietnam War drama Tigerland, the actor's breakthrough movie, and the director shows a real understanding of his gifts here, weaponizing Farrell's vanity, charm, and vulnerability to make the audience squirm. That's what he does in Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled as Corporal McBurney, a union soldier who gets treated to the hospitality of a bunch of southern belles when they discover him wounded on the property of their all-girls school.
Colin Farrell is back in a big way. He appears in two movies released on Friday, "The Batman" and "After Yang."
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One scene, hardly one of the movie's biggest, has Jake visiting his neighbor's family to ask them some questions about Yang, and Farrell conveys reluctance, desperation, and a heavy dose of shame over his own prejudices in the single, awkward interaction. It's a performance that has to sit and sink in, much as the family's evolving grief does — requiring stillness that doesn't slip into the intentionally awkward formality of a Lanthimos film. But in the later part of his career, Farrell has seemed to do his best when he pushes himself to even greater extremes, on both ends of his range. On the other end, Farrell will don a plaid tracksuit, oversized spectacles, and a newsboy cap to play the ringleader for a group of young YouTube gangsters in Guy Ritchie's caper The Gentlemen. He doesn't always spring either persona when expected: for consummate weirdo Tim Burton, he played a gentle father in Dumbo, while the second season of the deeply serious HBO drama True Detective, he let his blackly funny screw-ups go over the top. On one side, he's become a quiet muse to directors like Yorgos Lanthimos, mastering the slightly remote humanity of dark comedies like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Martin McDonagh, who operates in a more overtly comic register while still utilizing his star's deadpan. Farrell is an undisputed highlight of The Batman, just as he was in Daredevil, and for a similar reason: In a violent movie where the titular superhero broods grimly, Farrell punctures the seriousness around him.