“Penguin” finally premiered on “Max” a week later, on September 19th. Pharrell isn’t having a great time in all this.
As part of the new issue of Total Film, the actor explains the highs and lows of returning to Gotham as Oswald Cobblepot, even as he praises Matt Reeves and showrunner Lauren LeFranc made the character great, but he was also a pleasure to leave him with.
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“Don’t get me wrong – I loved it – but it kind of got to me. By the end of it, I was whining and complaining to anyone who would listen to me, and I fucking wanted it to be like this.” Done, ” he publicly admitted, then described his personal fondness for previous versions of the character. “It’s not that I don’t know who I am, I go out and burn cars or whatever, but… if you look at what Matt Reeves has created, and then what Lauren has created [LeFranc, showrunner] what did mike do [Marino, prosthetics and make-up designer] To do that and put it all together, it was a very powerful experience.
By “a truly powerful experience,” he refers not only to the endurance exercise required to put on all the prosthetics and makeup to bring the penguins to life on him, but also to how raw and brutal the actual writing (and filming) was. some scenes) are. He didn’t close the door on making a second season, though: “Lauren said, ‘Look, if I can find a way that makes sense, can you talk about that?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely.’ “Maybe in a year I will, but when I’m done, I’m like, ‘I never want to put on that damn suit and that damn head again.’
Regardless of whether or not Farrell will appear in Penguin Season 2 (we’ve yet to see how critics and Max subscribers react), Matt Reeves recently confirmed that the show will be tied to The Batman 2 There’s a direct connection, so we’re totally on board to look forward to seeing him return in that movie, possibly playing a character closer to the “classic” Penguin in the comic books. The original film was also an origin story for him, and his spin-off series is all about power struggles, so it’s not hard to predict where his character will go. What’s interesting about the premise of “Penguin” is exploring the man behind the gangster’s appearance and seeing what he’s willing to do and sacrifice to achieve his goals.
While Matt Reeves’ Batman universe may get a little zany as the story develops, the filmmakers have ruled out the possibility of venturing into Gotham’s more fantastical side, so set your mind accordingly expectations. Currently, “Batman: Part II” is expected to begin production early next year.
