The Penguin and The Batman FX artist Mike Marino says Colin Farrell's look as the famous Batman villain was inspired by Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
"There was another fantasy character, which was Bob Hoskins in Roger Rabbit. There is some kind of quality there that Matt [Reeves] had interest in that I thought was cool," Marino told DiscussingFilm. "That also comes from sort of a noir-feeling '30s type of person because in Roger Rabbit you don't really know what decade that is. It's a strange, like, 1930s, '40s feeling so I think that noir thing came from tahat. And there were real gangsters and we have Al Capone who's also an influence. ll of these subliminal influences and references are kind of melded into the subconscious."
Mike Marino tells us that Colin Farrell’s look as The Penguin was also inspired by Bob Hoskins from ‘WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT’“There is some kind of quality there that Matt Reeves had interest in” pic.twitter.com/XedAd0wEeAOctober 6, 2024
It's worth noting that Farrell is unrecognizable as Oz Cobblepot aka The Penguin, though he's not the first actor to play the Batman villain that had to wear heavy makeup and prosthetics. Danny DeVito's Penguin in Batman Returns quite literally looks a penguin – and he bites.
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