Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Colin Farrell Almost Turned Down The Penguin Until He Was Shown On Thing

Colin Farrell almost was this close to turning down The Penguin...until he was shown something... that instantly changed his mind...

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Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Colin Farrell received some
of the best reviews of his career of his portrayal
of the villainous title character of the Penguin in the
Batman spin off series, but before the show, he had
a brief but memorable appearance as the penguin in the
movie The Batman. Director had Matt Reeves. Though Colin admitted
to a crowd at the Zerik Film Festival, when he
first read the script, he wasn't very interested. He thought
it was too small and a silly character. But that

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changed when he still agreed to meet with Reeves and
was shown the character design a much more human interpretation
than what he imagined. Colin says, I'll never forget it.
Matt opened up his laptop and showed me the first
time I saw it, the cogs started turning. Everything in
the script became clear, every little pockmark. The character was
ferocious looking, but I could imagine every aspect of the
character's life, even moving ones. It just gave me so

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much information. I can do five hours a day riffing
as a penguin, and even my sense of humor changes.
That's Colin Ferrell's new movie The Ballad of a small Player,
coming out October fifteenth, that's direct from Hollywood