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

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Colin Farrell received some
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  Speaker 1: of the best reviews of his career of his portrayal
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  Speaker 1: of the villainous title character of the Penguin in the
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  Speaker 1: Batman spin off series, but before the show, he had
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  Speaker 1: a brief but memorable appearance as the penguin in the
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  Speaker 1: movie The Batman. Director had Matt Reeves. Though Colin admitted
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  Speaker 1: to a crowd at the Zerik Film Festival, when he
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  Speaker 1: first read the script, he wasn't very interested. He thought
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  Speaker 1: it was too small and a silly character. But that
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  Speaker 1: changed when he still agreed to meet with Reeves and
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  Speaker 1: was shown the character design a much more human interpretation
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  Speaker 1: than what he imagined. Colin says, I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Matt opened up his laptop and showed me the first
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  Speaker 1: time I saw it, the cogs started turning. Everything in
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  Speaker 1: the script became clear, every little pockmark. The character was
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  Speaker 1: ferocious looking, but I could imagine every aspect of the
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  Speaker 1: character's life, even moving ones. It just gave me so
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  Speaker 1: much information. I can do five hours a day riffing
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  Speaker 1: as a penguin, and even my sense of humor changes.
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  Speaker 1: That's Colin Ferrell's new movie The Ballad of a small Player,
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  Speaker 1: coming out October fifteenth, that's direct from Hollywood