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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: You Won’t Believe the Physical Challenges Colin Farrell Endured Playing The Penguin · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Colin Ferrell's turn as
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  Speaker 1: Oswald Cobb aka The Penguin and the acclaimed show of
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  Speaker 1: the same name, was a monumental physical undertaking. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: Colin wore thirty plus pounds of prosthetics, including two pounds
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  Speaker 1: of silicon on his face. He had to sit for
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  Speaker 1: more than three hours to have that transformation realized, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the easiest part. It was shot in the
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  Speaker 1: dead of winter, and although the name of the show
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  Speaker 1: The Penguin makes you think of the fridgid conditions, Colin
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  Speaker 1: was perpetually overheated. He tells the Hollywood Reporter. I was
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  Speaker 1: totally encased as Oz and it was incredibly hot underneath
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  Speaker 1: all those prosthetics. They ended up having to blast the
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  Speaker 1: ac even with the air temp outside well below freezing,
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  Speaker 1: forcing cast and crew to wear full winter gear until
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  Speaker 1: Colin put a stop to it. He had a tent
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  Speaker 1: built on set, which he nicknamed the Igloo, adding we
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  Speaker 1: had three industrial air conditioners funnel freezing cold air into it.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't fair that the crew had to wear snow
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  Speaker 1: goose expedition coats and scarves. To top all that off,
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  Speaker 1: Colin up to wear a leg brace, so the penguin
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  Speaker 1: wattle and he walked away from the show with a
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  Speaker 1: lingering hip issue and a misaligned to pelvis, but he
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  Speaker 1: also walked away with the Golden Globe. The penguin is
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  Speaker 1: on HBO Max that's direct from Hollywood.