Colin Farrell Looks Nearly Unrecognizable With Shaved Head

“Wait, WHAT?” Clarkson said as she jumped up after seeing a picture of Farrell in character during his appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show that March. “I didn’t see that picture, oh my God. I just heard that you were Penguin. What the hell?”

Referring to the movie’s makeup artist, she added, “That person deserves to win awards.”

Well, that person would Mike Marino, who completely transformed the S.W.A.T. actor into the mob boss by using facial prosthetics to create the character’s menacing scar, large nose and balding head.

“The first time I saw the makeup was when he had done a mold of my face and I saw it on a screen—on Matt Reeves‘ screen,” Farrell shared of the transformation. “He said, ‘Do you wanna see what Mike Marino’s done, what he thinks Oz is gonna look like?’ And I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he showed me the screen, and I just didn’t know it was going in that direction.”

“I went, ‘Holy Smokes,'” he continued. “I’d never done anything like that before.”

And in case you were wondering how long it takes to slip into one of Gotham City’s most iconic villains—it was quite the painstaking process.

“At the start, four hours,” he told Clarkson of his time in the makeup chair at the beginning of filming. “And then they got it down to two, and it was fine. Cause I knew that the reward was immense. It was extraordinary, it was so liberating.”

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