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    Colin Farrell and Mike Marino Rocked Out Collectively Whereas Making ‘The Penguin’

    David GroveBy David GroveJune 3, 20259 Mins Read
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    On June 5, the IndieWire Honors Spring 2025 ceremony will have fun the creators and stars liable for a number of the most spectacular and fascinating work of this TV season. Curated and chosen by IndieWire’s editorial group, IndieWire Honors is a celebration of the creators, artisans, and performers behind tv nicely value toasting. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews main as much as the Los Angeles occasion.

    “Howdy, genius!” 

    Regardless of being on minimal sleep and an evening capturing schedule, Colin Farrell can’t assist however gentle up at seeing make-up designer Mike Marino. Their enthusiasm for one another is infectious, a mischievous, brotherly power that shines by means of even on a Zoom name. Even after half the espresso that Farrell was heating up in a microwave sloshes all around the glass, Marino deadpanned, “This was our morning ritual. A number of espresso.” 

    'A Big Bold Beautiful Journey'
    Sheryl Lee Ralph at the 2025 Gotham Television Awards on June 2, 2025 in New York, New York.

    The actor and the make-up artist have actually spent sufficient time collectively to develop their rapport. Their collaboration on the look of ascending crime boss OuncesCobb within the HBO miniseries “The Penguin” required a minimum of three hours of make-up earlier than capturing and virtually an hour after each wrap to take away it — on Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” Farrell had been prepared to shave his head, which saved about 40 minutes within the chair, nevertheless it’s a really completely different proposition to try this for a couple of weeks of a movie shoot in comparison with the six months Farrell would wish to dwell as Cobb for the miniseries.

    For Marino, Farrell, and the make-up group of “The Penguin,” their work was one thing near an endurance sport. 

    The pair couldn’t have recognized they’d be operating a prosthetics marathon collectively after they first met on 2014’s “Winter’s Story,” a movie the place the calls for on each Farrell and Marino had been extra standard-issue — or a minimum of as normal because it will get when one among Farrell’s character’s key decisions within the movie was to save lots of a magic horse. Marino did a life solid of Farrell, however was principally involved with enamel and eyes and beat-up results for different actors on the mission. That they developed a respect for one another’s work is obvious, even when “No remark from the politically savvy actor” is Farrell’s essential reflection on the shoot. 

    However eight years later, when paired once more for 2022’s “The Batman,” every jumped in with a good quantity of admiration for the opposite. “When Matt mentioned, ‘Are you aware Mike Marino?’ I mentioned, ‘Yeah, I’ve labored with Mike. He’s wonderful.’ He mentioned, ‘I’m gonna have him do the Penguin.’ I didn’t know precisely how a lot he was going to know, what he was going to do. It wasn’t as energetic in my creativeness because it grew to become,” Farrell instructed IndieWire.

    However Marino noticed the chance to craft a very transformational look that had little nods to how the comics character has regarded in previous iterations, however really regarded like an individual with an actual, and brutal, historical past. Not simply because it was his job, however as a result of he thinks it unlocks one thing particular in efficiency. 

    “ Laurence Olivier was obsessive about make-up and [had] a really wonderful make-up artist [Dick Smith] again within the day. Each mission he ever did, he at all times requested, ‘Can I put on a nostril? Can I put on a swollen cheek? Can I put on a go well with? Can I do that? Can I put on a beard?’ , it simply helped him as an actor to comprehend his different persona. You might virtually cover behind it — however with the act of hiding behind it, reveal and unleash some new a part of a psyche or persona that you could be not even know you’ve gotten, and it comes out,” Marino instructed IndieWire. “So there’s a magnificence to doing this and sitting by means of the method.” 

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    Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in 'The Penguin'
    ‘The Penguin’ Macall Polay/HBO

    It’s a course of that has developed considerably between engaged on “The Batman” and “The Penguin” — and one which each Marino and Farrell need to go away room for the innovation and the accidents that inevitably occur, and often make the tip outcome even higher than what they plan. “These completely happy accidents occur with the face. Issues occur that sort of simply seem completely organically. And perhaps even a flaw within the make-up is perhaps one thing that’s cool about it,” Marino mentioned. 

    “Like an unintentional line supply,” Farrell provides one other layer onto Marino’s level. “Like a line stuttered by means of, by accident, virtually forgotten after which remembered as she or he is saying it, is usually a magic second of sincerity.” 

    That sincerity is what Marino and Farrell chase, each individually and collectively, of their work. They method it with a sort of punk insistence on doing issues by hand, the good distance, which provides area for the sort of accidents that may elevate tales into artwork. Particularly in a fictional world that strives to be heightened however emotionally relatable, the sense of a human contact is necessary to each of them.   

    “There’s a specific amount of artifice that your soul, your power, acknowledges as being created by people,” Marino instructed IndieWire. “After all, Matt Reeves can do good digital characters like ‘Planet of the Apes’ and all of these issues, however I believe ‘The Batman’ and Colin’s efficiency opened up one other door in his thoughts — we will create these characters, and a recognizable actor may be inside. And there’s this thrill to know that somebody we acknowledge is inside there and that they went by means of this.” 

    “ I simply need to know that human beings had been doing it. I need to know that folks furrowed [their] brows and couldn’t sleep at evening, and received up and made errors and tried and failed. As a part of any creative endeavor, I simply assume it’s beautiful and I believe it’s what connects us,” Farrell added. “There are such a lot of [VFX] homes that do wonderful work, with the mixing of expertise into storytelling. We’re not towards it, after all not. However there’s an overtaking that’s harmful and that lacks ardour and lacks life and lacks that human connection.” 

    Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in 'The Penguin'
    ‘The Penguin’ Macall Polay/HBO

    The pair’s expertise on “The Penguin” constructed on the learnings and accidents that they had engaged on “The Batman,” but additionally demanded much more from each of them. There are scenes in “The Penguin” the place Ouncesmay be very uncovered or the place we see the clubfoot that provides him his waddling gait, after all, the place the make-up work actually needed to stand the take a look at of brighter lighting and extra protection than in Reeves’ movie. However there was additionally the grind of placing on the go well with and the face, day after day after day. It required full belief, a whole lot of espresso, and the camaraderie that Marino and Farrell clearly have developed to spice up one another’s power — usually, by taking the piss. 

    As Marino is explaining what was required to flatten down Farrell’s hair (“wealthy, he has very wealthy, thick hair”), Farrell jumped in with a gleeful, “Each fucking day! Each fucking day this got here up! If that is the pure development of my life, then so be it, however I’m not imposing male sample baldness on myself for one more six months!” Marino couldn’t assist however snort at that and remind Farrell that he did, in actual fact, fall in love with the design for Oz. 

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    “And now I hate it. And now I hate Mike!,” Farrell mock-growled earlier than clarifying that he is joking, and that the factor he liked about being put underneath all of these layers of Marino’s designs was the whole freedom it provided him. 

    “ The thought was that I might have complete expression beneath the make-up. And the make-up was so delicate, and the fabric virtually intuitively tailored to each single thought, virtually, that I had. I couldn’t be restricted beneath it,” Farrell mentioned. “That was what Mike needed, [for] me to not be restricted.” 

    “ If you consider something you do — it could possibly be constructing a automobile or a rocket ship or something — nothing actually is ever good or lasting if it’s simply really easy, ?,” Marino mentioned. “We actually had a problem every morning, after which [Farrell] had the problem of carrying this character all through your entire day of filming, and the quantity of days that we had. However it was really, really a magical expertise the place all the things simply got here collectively.” 

    Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb in 'The Penguin'
    ‘The Penguin’Macall Polay/HBO

    “The issue was in measure with the reward of [the show],” Farrell agreed. “As Mike was saying, the wrestle of it and the sort of striving for, not perfection, however one thing authentic and one thing robust and one thing affecting and one thing sort of heightened, but additionally true — all these issues made it such a pleasure to be part of.”  

    Ideally, collaborators empower one another to be higher at their work than they’d be on their very own. That is completely true in Marino and Farrell’s case, however greater than that, they’re one another’s cheerleaders to go the gap and put the striving and the hassle they discover so helpful into one another’s work. Marino likens it to being in a band. They every will do solo work or jam on different folks’s albums — Marino not too long ago did work on “Hurry Up Tomorrow” and Farrell has a variety of non-Penguin-related options on his slate — however it’s going to at all times be enjoyable to step again into the studio collectively. 

    “ We’re simply artists jamming, and it’s simply so enjoyable,” Marino mentioned. “ It’s a gorgeous rock-and-roll kind of expertise.” 

    “I’d like to work with Mike many instances over time. It’s simply such a enjoyable sandbox to be in, man. Simply to play in that space as a result of we’re all — I believe I can converse for you, Mike,” Farrell mentioned. “Each of us had been followers earlier than we ever did something regarding the film trade or storytelling within the visible medium. And we’ll be followers. If he ever retires as a make-up artist, if I ever retire as an actor, we’ll be followers lengthy after that.”  

    It goes unsaid, though it is extremely clear from the grins on each of their faces, that Farrell and Marino are going to be followers of one another so long as they’re followers of visible storytelling, too. 

    All episodes of “The Penguin” are streaming on Max.  



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