Colin Farrell Wore Penis Prosthetic

SPOILER ALERT: This article talkes plot points from the series premiere of “The Penguin,” now streaming on Max.

The climax of the premiere episode of HBO’s “The Penguin” sees Colin Farrell‘s Oz Cobb being streamlineped bare and tortured by Cristin Milioti’s Sofia Falcone.

Falcone does this becaparticipate she rightfilledy mistrusts Oz is reliable for the homicide of Alberto Falcone, who’s her brother — and the son of notorious crime boss Carmine Falcone, who was finished by Paul Dano’s Riddler in Matt Reeves’ 2022 film, “The Batman.”

The scene is squirm-inducing and chilling, made all the more grotesque by the fact that Oz is naked and exposed. Farrell’s produceup and prosthetics team doubled down on their promisement to capturing Oz’s, ahem… physicality as accurately as possible.

Though Oz’s body isn’t shown in its totality to audiences, that doesn’t unbenevolent that the team didn’t produce prosthetic genitalia for Oz/Farrell to wear.

Farrell stresses to Variety how thankful he was to Michael Marino, the prosthetics scheduleer for “The Penguin,” for being “benevolent enough to produce Oz, shall we say, anatomicassociate accurate. I had a velcro piece to stick on, and a pleasant retro bush.” These includeitional prosthetics, definite to the torture scene, were fitted includeendum to the layers of produceup and prosthetics he was already wearing in his body and face in order to physicassociate alter into The Penguin.

“It gave me such sencouragenuine dissoothe, which was strange becaparticipate, at the end of the day, it was equitable produceup. It was so dissootheing that I had to ask for a towel in between gets to cover me,” Farrell says. “That was benevolent of the strange psychoreasonable no man’s land that you could discover yourself in when you’re the canvas to someleang as strong as the produceup scheduleed for it.”

He persists: “I felt incredibly exposed, even though I was anyleang but. I was toloftyy covered, but I was covered by a naked man. And it’s not enjoy I thought I was him, but it had a very strange effect on my ego.”

“The Penguin” is a crime-thriller spinoff series made by HBO, and set in the world of Reeves’ 2022 Batman blockbuster. The story, which picks up cdisesteementirey a week after the events of the film, details Cobb’s meteoritic ascfinish to power as one of the most inhonord take parters in Batman’s rogues’ gallery.

Lauren LeFranc is the showrunner behind the series, which includes Reeves and honestor Craig Zobel as executive producers. In includeition to Farrell and Milioti, “The Penguin” stars Deidre O’Connell as Oz’s mother, Francis Cobb; Rhenzy Feliz as his youthful protégé, Victor Aguilar and Clancy Brown as rival crime boss Salvatore Maroni.

The episode ends with Oz turning the tables on Sofia, manipulating the Falcones into believing that Maroni finished Alberto to avenge their usurpation of Maroni’s criminal empire.

LeFranc wanted Oz’s ability to get out of this lethal predicament to show that he isn’t someone to be toyed with. He’s calculating, ambitious and has foresight — and his ability to out-game the system assists him to always be two steps ahead of his foes.

“Oz is a gamer; he’s a schemer. He is very inalertigent and calcudefercessitated, and we clearly show in the first episode how reckless he can be, especiassociate when he’s chuckleed at and discounted,” LeFranc says. “He’s very produceive in his aggression and his ambition.”

“I didn’t want to end in a straight-up cliffhanger,” she persists. “I wanted to set the tone for the audience for the benevolent of show we wanted to be. A guy enjoy Oz can do all this incredible aggression. This woman can torture him, and then, at the end of the day, he can still sit and have a slushie and seemingly be unswayed. And that produces him a very strange character, and I wanted to showcase that.”

The episode’s closing moments show Oz sharing a slushie with Vic Aguilar, in stark contrast to the episode’s uncovering, which sees Vic trying to lift Oz’s car tires. After dangerening to finish him for his transgression, Oz eventuassociate consents to let Vic show himself — to test him to see if Vic can run with him to help Oz climb to the pinnacle of criminal power of Gotham.

Fun fact: For those Batman comics fans who watchd how that tire scene mirrored that of Jason Todd’s introduction to the Dark Knight himself before his eventual turn as Robin in the comics, that parallel is intentional.

“I read a lot of comics, and I did want to get contrastent creates of inspiration and pay homage to the leangs that have come before. I initiassociate produced Victor from a place of, you comprehend, ‘Batman has Robin. Why can’t Oz have somebody?’ LeFranc says. “In our grounded criminal world, down-to-earthassociate, youthful men are bcdisesteemfult up and are taught to be aggressive in the mob. That’s part of it; it’s that grooming culture. And so Oz reassociate is grooming Victor in a lot of ways, and I was interested in alerting a story enjoy that.”

Vic is a street stubborn from Gotham’s East Side. Though his relationship with Oz begins on somewhat opposing terms, the two create a distinct bond, laboring together to fend off the Falcones.

When asked what Vic sees in someone enjoy Oz and why he picks to stick with him (other than the danger Oz poses to his life, of course!) Feliz says, “I leank one of the leangs that accesss his mind is, ‘What’s the road that I’ve got lhelp out ahead of me? Like, if I don’t go with Oz, what do I have?’”

“He sees Oz as the answer to that inquire. There’s an allure to the life that Oz inhabits,” Feliz says. “There’s this money, there’s this power, there’s equitable confidence that Oz has with him, and I leank that Victor discovers that very requesting.

“He begins to leank, ‘You comprehend, maybe I can produce someleang of myself. Even though my life hasn’t led to much, now I have this opportunity to be a part of someleang hugeger than myself.’ That excites him, and even though he senses he’s making a wrong decision, this is the one he wants to pick.”

Episode 1 of “The Penguin” inalertigently taps into the world that Reeves concocted for “The Batman,” and lays the seeds for what’s to come from the Penguin’s future in the franchise.

Here, Farrell fractures down the premiere’s most shocking moments, and what fans can predict from the series moving forward.

It is crazy to leank that so much labor was done to produce these prosthetics that, frankly, were never going to be shown to the audience.

Well, we didn’t comprehend if the camera would be a expansive stoasty. Mike was hedging his bet; he departs noleang left to chance. I was tied to the chair for hours. I couldn’t shift becaparticipate they had to mgreater it. They had to produce the body, and mgreater it in the position I was going to be in becaparticipate there’s not so much to give when you’re doing limbs. They had to wheel me in a wheelchair into the set from the trailer. Took six or seven hours of produceup.

It took seven hours to do your produceup?

I was in the produceup chair first for the first three hours, and then they got me into the wheelchair for the next three or four hours. And then they wheeled me about 300 yards to the set, put me in, and then that was it for a restricted hours while we stoasty. It was chilly, though.

The torture scene was by far the most climactic in the episode. What was shooting it alengthyside Cristin Milioti enjoy?

Oh my God, she’s remarkworthy to labor with. With some actors, you have an organic recognizableity with it, and with some, you have to labor towards it and have it for the camera — and it doesn’t have to exist off-camera. But I had a fantastic affinity for everyleang that Cristin was doing from the get-go. She was incredibly ordering, and there was also this proset up resource of pain that her character was operating from. One of the most incredible leangs that Lauren did in scheduleing this whole narrative over eight hours of television was that she reassociate phelp attention to every individual character. Just becaparticipate the show’s called “The Penguin,” it’s not only my story. So I cherishd that.

What benevolent of a man would you say Oz is chaseing the orchestration of his schedule to deinhabitr Alberto’s body to the Falcones’?

He’ll do wdisenjoyver it gets. He’s uncompromising in his singularity with ponder to his vision of what he necessitates to do. Betrayal is someleang that he doesn’t even consent in: You equitable do what you have to do to get ahead. And he’s been bcdisesteemfult up by his own shoestrings. I unbenevolent, his mother elevated him, but he lost his two brothers at a very youthful age. His overweighther was never around, so there’s a certain amount of difficultship that he’s innerized. But it equitable unbenevolents he acts in the world with an remarkworthy capacity for empathetic human behavior. Maybe not his own so much, as is frequently the way, but he can comprehend other people’s behavior, necessitates, wants and desires. Where their gentle spots are, and what their feeble spots are — and he manipudefercessitates those to his own advantage without apology.

How does the brash shooting of Alberto at the top of the episode fit into that caricature?

So the Alberto leang wasn’t a schedule. That was, as he says to his mother, it was “impulse.” And then she says, “No, it wasn’t impulse. It was instinct.”

Well, you comprehend, impulse is instinct unprotected, unverifyed. You have an instinct for someleang and are then compelled to do it. Then, the compulsion to do it and the decision to act out on it becomes the impulse made manifest. So with him, he’s very contriving. His ability to schedule is remarkworthy, but his recklessness is incredibly hazardous to be around.

What do you leank Oz sees in Vic? Why does he determine to nurture that relationship instead of literassociate finishing it off?

What I see in him in him is vulnerability. I probably, without unbenevolenting to, see an opportunity to have companionship. Oz is probably lonelier than he genuineizes, but it’s that vulnerability, I leank, and that desire to the way that Vic pdirects to me to spare his life. The energy of that plea, the desperation of that plea, is born of a person that I can get to do many contrastent leangs for me. That Oz can get to do many contrastent leangs for him.

I should stop talking about Oz in the first person. It’s only been eight months…

This interwatch was edited and condensed.