The Batman Director Matt Reeves On How They Created Colin Farrell's Penguin Look
Out of all the performances inThe Batman, a lot of the talk has been about Colin Farrell's portrayal of the Penguin, largely due to the fact the actor is almost completely unrecognizable under all the makeup and prosthetics. Now, director Matt Reeves has shared the story of how the look for the iconic DC character was created for this film.
Similar to Danny DeVito's portrayal as the Penguin in Tim Burton's Batman Returns, Farrell also wore heavy prosthetics for his depiction of the crime boss in The Batman, an aspect that made the actor pretty much impossible to recognize in the role. In order to get a feel for it all, Farrell pointed out in another interview that he walked into a Starbucks in full Penguin makeup.
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While there's a lot of respect for what DeVito was able to accomplish with his version of the role, Reeves knew that he wanted to give the Penguin a more realistic look that harkens back to classic gangster films and mafia bosses. “I thought John Cazale has a kind of Penguin nose. I thought, well, maybe there’s something visually that we do. I saw him as being almost like a throwback Warner Bros. gangster,” Reeves told Variety. And after seeing Farrell gain weight for another film role at the time (which Farrell wasn't comfortable keeping for The Batman), Reeves had the perfect idea in mind, as he enlisted artist Michael Marino to design the look for the Penguin.
«One day he showed me this sculpture on a head cast of Colin. It’s the character you see [in the movie]. And I was like, Wait, what? I could not believe what I was seeing,» Reeves shared. «I said, ‘We are dead in the water if I let you do this and anyone says, 'Oh, I can see that that’s
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