![]() He tied up and tortured Alfred with his twins who managed to call Wayne. Despising Wayne's pretty boy image, Penguin went to the manor with his twins in an effort to get rid of Wayne once and for all. Penguin soon declared revenge on both The Batman and Bruce Wayne. Batman eventually proved victorious and the Penguin was captured. Now calling himself the Penguin, he demonstrated his fighting skills against the Batman and the two engaged in a protracted battle across the room. Batman arrived at the manor shortly thereafter and Oswald and he faced each other for the first time. He went to Oswald's family mansion, but was captured by the Kabuki Twins. Pennyworth, still angry with Cobblepot's behavior at the fund raiser, decided to take matters into his own hands. Bruce Wayne assumed that Cobblepot's return to Gotham City coincided with the most recent rash of burglaries and he investigated the crimes as his costumed alter ego – the Batman. After making a scene, Oswald managed to snatch the party's guest list and used this information to select his future targets. He nearly came to blows with Alfred Pennyworth whose memory of his grandfather's mistreatment at the hands of the Cobblepots was as clear as ever. One evening, Oswald crashed a charity drive hosted by Bruce Wayne at Wayne Manor. He stored his ill-gotten gains in the aviary at Cobblepot Manor. Oswald eventually returned to the United States whereupon he used his birds to nab various riches from Gotham's wealthiest citizens. Despite his portly physique, Cobblepot took an interest in martial arts, and trained his body into top fighting form. ![]() There he met two silent female assassins known only as the Kabuki Twins who later went on to work for him as his personal bodyguards. A few years ago, Cobblepot left Gotham City and spent several years traveling the Orient. Alfred Pennyworth's grandfather was once a butler to the English Cobblepot's and Alfred was raised on stories on how cruel and disrespectful the Cobblepots were to their staff. It was extraordinary.Oswald "Ozzy" Cobblepot is descended from an aristocratic family whose lineage goes back to Newcastle, England. “I walked around the studio and then the voice work I had done with Jessica Drake, the dialect coach, started coming out and Oz just came alive. I need to get my health back.’ So we explored other means of creating the physical character.” Once Farrell put his entire Penguin get-up on for the first time – prosthetics and all – it all came together. “I’d just finished The North Water, which I’d put on weight for, and Matt said, ‘You look great!’ I thought, ‘Well, fuckin’ say goodbye to it because I’m about to hit the treadmill. “Matt had seen the character as classically somewhat portly, rotund, whatever the word,” explains Farrell. But for a while, it seemed like prosthetics might not be necessary. Where that rise goes… I would love to get to explore that in the second film, if that was ever to happen.”īetrayal! Weakness! A character arc to explore! If it all sounds like ideal territory for the ever-adaptable Farrell, it’s still difficult to square the actor’s casting with the glimpses we’ve seen of him looking resolutely, well, un-Farrell. There is a kind of fracture at the core of Oz, which fuels his desire and his ambition to rise within this criminal cabal. Which is why he commits the act of betrayal that he does, because he’s weak, he’s kind of broken, and he’s in pain. “ mentioned Fredo to me,” Farrell tells Empire, “because Fredo’s crippled by the insignificance that he lives within, in a family that is full of very strong, very bright, very capable, very violent men. And the director and star took inspiration from a particular character from The Godfather to tap into that. Played by an unrecognisable Colin Farrell, this version of Oswald Cobblepot – who Farrell calls “Oz” – is dangerous because of his weakness. And in Matt Reeves’ upcoming take on the character in The Batman, he’s going to be more unsettling than ever before. ![]() ![]() The Penguin: a Batman villain who is significantly more sinister than his name suggests. A penguin: a ridiculous and wildly overrated bird that doesn’t belong on Christmas cards.
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