Colin Farrell Doesn’t Know If He’d Return for ‘The Penguin’ Season 2

Whereas Colin Farrell was “grateful” to play the Penguin within the upcoming HBO present of the identical identify, he isn’t certain if he would ever wish to “put that fucking suit and that fucking head on again.”

The actor acquired candid concerning the depth of the position in a current interview with Complete Movie journal, responding to the thought of returning for a second season of The Penguin, if it scores a renewal: “I don’t know, man.”

“Don’t get me wrong — I loved it — but it got in on me a little bit. By the end of it, I was bitching and moaning to anyone who would listen to me that I fucking wanted it to be finished. I tried to remind them that I had ‘grumpy gratitude,’” Farrell defined. (*2*)

Nevertheless, “by the end of it,” the actor was able to wrap every thing up between the prosthetics, swimsuit and headspace he discovered himself in.

“It’s not like I didn’t know who I was, and I was going out and burning cars and shit, but… if you take what Matt Reeves created and then what Lauren [LeFranc, showrunner] did and what Mike [Marino, prosthetics and make-up designer] did and put them all together, it was a really powerful experience,” Farrell mentioned.

“Lauren said, ‘Look, if I could find a way that makes sense, would you talk about it?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely,’” the actor added of a possible second season. “And maybe, in a year, I would. But when I finished I was like, ‘I never want to put that fucking suit and that fucking head on again.’”

Whereas the collection is a by-product from Matt Reeves’ 2022 film The Batman, the filmmaker beforehand advised SFX journal that followers mustn’t count on to see Robert Pattinson’s Batman within the TV challenge.

“I feel like it’s an extension of what is fundamentally there. We know this is the world of Batman,” Reeves mentioned of the present. “You’re going down a different alley. So the specter of Batman is there. The specter of the Riddler is there. The specter of everything that happens in the last movie is there. It informs it. And it’s exactly where we begin.”  

The Penguin premieres on HBO and Max on Sept. 19.