The Batman Star Colin Farrell Fought Against Smoking Ban For Penguin
Actor Colin Farrell, who plays DC Comics villain Penguin in the upcomingWarner Bros. film The Batman,recently revealed that he really wanted his character to smoke in the movie, but the studio wouldn't allow it.
Even though it was once a common staple in Hollywood films, the depiction of smoking on screen has become more controversial in recent years. Studios like Warner Bros. and Disney in particular are stingy around the subject since many of their properties are marketed towards children. Disney even put a ban on smoking in all of its films back in 2007, which it later extended to some of its subsidiaries, includingLucasfilm, Marvel, and Pixar.
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In a recent interview with Jake Takes,Farrell discussed his role in as Oswald «Oz» Cobblepot, a.k.a. Penguin, in The Batman. During the interview host, Jake Hamilton pointed out that the new film is more of an origin story for Batman's villains. He then asked Farrell whether fans would get to see the signature top hat, monocle, and long cigarette holder that Penguin is known for having, to which Farrell replied, “Big studios make big decisions around such things as the presence of cigarettes in films. I fought valiantly for a cigar. At one stage I said, ‘I can have it unlit! Just let me have it unlit.’ They were like, ‘No.’ [As if] a bunch of 12-year-olds are going to start smoking Cuban cigars because [the Penguin is smoking cigars in a movie.]”
Actress Emma Stone went through a similar debacle for her Disney filmCruella,in which she plays a young version of the dog-napping villain from the 101 Dalmatians movies. In an interview with The New York Times, Stone said it was difficult not to have Cruella's iconic
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