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Colin Farrell will be playing Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, but he will look nothing like himself. The change is so drastic that another cast member mistook him for a random “overconfident” extra on the film’s set.As reported by Movieweb, Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays a “mysterious victim” in The Batman, admitted to having no idea he was talking to Farrell when he was in full costume.
“I arrived on set and there was this guy walking around who was being so over confident,” Penry-Jones said. “I had no idea who he was. He was being really friendly, he was telling all these stories, I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ I thought he might’ve been a supporting actor [an extra to you and me]. He kept on talking to me, just really friendly, really nice, and I started noticing things about his costume. He had a brace on his leg and these weird scars on his face, and I thought, ‘This is quite a lot of effort they’ve gone to for a supporting artist…’ and suddenly I realized, ‘Wait a minute this guy must be playing the Penguin, oh my God that’s Colin Farrell!'” We get a glimpse of Farrell’s Penguin in The Batman’s teaser trailer, and the actor previously discussed how he is excited about his role in the film and how there will be a couple of “tasty scenes.”
“I had only started it and I can’t wait to get back,” Farrell said. “The creation of it, the aesthetic of the character, has been fun and I really am so excited to get back and explore it. And I haven’t got that much to do. I have a certain amount in the film. I am not all over it by any means. But there are a couple of some tasty scenes I have in it and my creation and I can’t wait to get back. Yeah, I totally feel like it is something that I have not had the opportunity to explore before. It feels original and fun. But I am only at the start of the journey so I can’t wait to get back and really get into it.”
For more on The Batman, which will be released in theaters on March 4, 2022, check out everything we know about the DC reboot and how the riddle in the first trailer may have already been solved.
