Colin Farrell has "no deep desire" to punish himself with more Penguin

It's hard to believe that Colin Farrell has "no deep desire" to apply a metric ton of makeup to his face again.

By Matt Schimkowitz | February 24, 2025 | 8:10pm

Photograph by Macall Polay (HBO)

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Colin Farrell has done it all in this business of show. He’s won numerous awards, nabbed an Oscar nomination, had Brendan Gleeson’s fingers thrown at him, given Jamie Lee Curtis COVID, and legitimized superhero roles through a prestige HBO drama about one of Batman’s silliest characters. So it makes sense that he doesn’t have a “deep desire” to spend the next few months having “800 pounds of makeup” applied to his face. Speaking to Variety at last night’s SAG Awards, presumably after the star won another trophy for his Penguin performance, Farrell expressed “no deep desire” to return to the world of Oswald Cobblepot—ahem, excuse us, Oz Cobb. Still, his main concern is less about the makeup and more about ensuring it lived up to expectations, especially with the question mark on Matt Reeves’ Batman sequel.

“I don’t want it. I don’t not want it,” he said. “We all left it in the ring in those eight hours. I would hate to, just because of a quote-unquote success, have to go again and for it to be a diluted version of what people seem to feel it is, majoritively. So I’m in no rush. I have no deep desire to do it.” […] “Sure, if they think of something that works in conjunction as a parallel to Matt Reeves’ cinematic universe, and it’s a good idea, I’m open to it. But it’s not something concerning me.”