After an amazing season and eight thrilling episodes, HBO’s The Penguin ended on November 10, 2024, with an amazing finale. The series has been praised by the fans and critics, who loved every part of this series, with Colin Farrell’s performance as The Penguin being lauded, alongside Cristin Millioti’s performance as Sofia Falcone.

And while we won’t be spoiling anything for you in this article, in case you haven’t seen the finale yet, we will be discussing the future of the series as, now that it is over. The people involved have also decided to break the silence and talk about what is coming up for them and their characters.

In a talk with The Hollywood Reporter, Colin Farrell discussed a potential second season of The Penguin and he revealed whether he would, and if yes, under what circumstances, come back for a second season of the show, if it ever does happen. If you want to know the details, please keep reading!

Colin Farrell’s history with the Penguin is an interesting one. He debuted in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and Reeves praised the actor, saying the following:

Colin is a really beautiful, empathic person. And so to live in that darkness, and then on top of that, to have all that latex put on day after day, I know that as much as he loved the role, it was also a kind of hell at the same time.

In an old interview, Farrell said “I never want to put on that fucking suit and fucking head again,” which is why THR asked him about this:

There was that quote that went viral where you said you never wanted to put the makeup on again. 

Some writer took that out of its energetic context. I was bitching to anyone who’d listen to me. It’s the way I speak sometimes — “I can’t wait to finish this” — that kind of thing. I get anxious right now just thinking about sitting in the chair for hours. But I always loved the material, and it was never lost on me the privilege I felt to inhabit a character that’s lived so long in comic book form originally and then through various iterations on TV and in film.

But, the situation has obviously changed, as Farrell’s answer about whether he would return to the role for a potential second season is now vastly different and he even provided us with an explanation as to why his opinion changed:

If there’s a great idea [for season two], and the writing was really muscular and as strong or stronger on the page than it was the first season, of course I would do it. For me, the bar for success is not very high. It’s, ‘Do most people like it?’ — just the simplicity of that. I love being in things that are critically approved — it’s much better than the alternative — but I’ve been around long enough [to know] that it’s the audience who are really the most important critics.

As you can see, Farrell is open to coming back as The Penguin, but the script for a second season would have to be great. Whether that will happen is something we don’t know at this point, but before we conclude this article, we’d just like to reveal this as well:

Do you have a scene from the season you’re most proud of?

I have a little bit more objectivity viewing this show than I usually have watching anything I’m a part of, by virtue of the obvious — I’m totally buried beneath three hours and 20 pounds of prosthetics. I don’t quite squirm as violently watching Oz as I do watching other characters I’ve played.

Having said that, it’s still hard for me to pick a favorite. But his relationship with his mother [Deirdre O’Connell] was something that drew me to the material more than some of the scenes that might’ve been more entertaining or electrifying. The scene when Oz comes home and his mother is in the bath, her dementia has taken hold, and he’s helpless in the face of it. She asks him to kill her before she gets much worse, but she is the driving force in his life.

She is his absolute hero and his inspiration and the source of a love and acceptance that he deeply wants to feel yet he’s never really gotten from her. But as long as she’s alive, he always has the opportunity of making her proud. So the idea of extinguishing the light of her life is something that is horrifying to him. I think it’s the most honest that Oz is in the whole show.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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