while penguin‘s finale was full of twists and turns as the series solidified its place in comic book TV royalty. Perhaps it won’t be surprising to learn that star Colin Farrell had a terrible time making it. This time we didn’t need an artificial king to make things miserable, but instead the sheer terror of having to navigate one of the series’ darkest moments.
Of course, Oz coldly calculates that he must brutally strangle poor little Vic to death with his bare hands to prevent his rival from using someone close to him to get to him. It’s one of many moments of change throughout the show. batonThe film transformed Oz from an almost charming and affable but sleazy mobster to an absolute terror. It was a change that Farrell clearly wanted to resist to his core until the last moment.
“Me and Colin resisted it with all our might. Because no matter how dark the character you play, and no matter how you accept swimming in those waters, there’s a part of you that you can’t return to love. Dear audience, there is a part of you that wishes you would always be open to the idea that you can be saved.” Farrell I recently told Collider. The shock he felt about Vic’s death in the finale. “No matter how dark your characters are, you always want them to feel like there’s some part of their humanity left. If the right thing is done in a well-written scene at the right moment, you can save yourself. By the end of episode 8, I’m not sure that’s possible anymore. So it was hard knowing that I was going into that level of psychological finality and embodying the character with the kind of depth of brutality that was expressed in that scene.”
Farrell knew that from the beginning. penguin I wanted to completely destroy the idea that Oz would remain the man he was. batonAhead of his return from a long production process baton Part 2. But after spending the better part of a year with Rhenzy Feliz and reaching his final day of production, Rhenzy Feliz ~ no I’m having a great time separating reality from fiction.
“There was very little conversation on set that night. We knew where we were. There was a stone slab where we sat by the water.” Farrell continued. “As actors, we knew the lines we had to say, and we just went and did the takes and did as many angles as we had to, and we fucking hated it. I hated that scene. I really did. It was so fucking annoying. What I felt when I performed it was – guess what? – That’s what I want you to feel when you see it. It was disgusting, cruel, and downright crazy, and it felt like Oz had reached the point of no return.”
“It was a sticky scene when I brought it home at night. “By the end of the night I had to shower with a wire brush,” he concluded.
As terrified as Farrell is, we hope the overwhelmingly positive response to the finale will make him feel like he needs to scrub a little less deeply when he showers this week. penguin Currently streaming in full on Max.
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