‘The Penguin’s Make-up Maestro Mike Marino Teases Which Batman Villains He Desires to Conjure Up Subsequent: “Clayface Would Be One”

In the event you’ve been maintaining with HBO‘s The Penguin, you’ll already know {that a} large a part of main man Colin Farrell‘s efficiency is aided by prosthetics. The work of Oscar-nominated make-up artist Mike Marino transforms the historically good-looking, extremely match Irish film star into the limping mobster we all know as Oz Cobb. Marino labored carefully with Farrell first on Matt Reeves‘s 2022 movie The Batman and went deeper on the challenge for HBO’s The Penguin. Right here, Oswald Cobb isn’t a aspect character, however the principle occasion…and so the make-up technically has to own much more subtlety.

So what comes subsequent for Colin Farrell’s model of the Penguin and Mike Marino’s artistry inside the world of The Batman? It’s widespread data now that the Penguin will return to pester Robert Pattinson’s model of Batman in The Batman Half 2, nevertheless it’s not clear what different comedian e book villains would possibly make the leap to that gritty, grounded model of Gotham Metropolis.

Whereas the tip of The Batman teased a model of the Joker performed by Barry Keoghan, rumors have swelled that Reeves and firm would possibly attempt to incorporate the likes of beloved Batman: The Animated Sequence villain Clayface into The Batman sequel. Naturally, Decider needed to ask Mike Marino which villains he’d most prefer to reinterpret for the display screen after we interviewed him and Colin Farrell final month.

“Inform the world, Mike! Inform the world!” Farrell teased, trying proper at Marino.

“Yeah, Clayface could be one,” Marino admitted. “Particularly the very first iteration of Clayface could be superb as a result of, you realize, he’s placing items of different folks on his face. So I believe it’d be actually cool.”

“It’s darkish,” Farrell mentioned. “And retaining tonally [with Reeves’s universe].”

“I imply, I believe additionally Two-Face is a good character,” Marino mentioned. “Regardless that we’ve seen it earlier than, I believe I may perhaps do one thing totally different. There’s simply so many prospects.”

“Ooo…I simply bought a tingle, as a fan of you,” Farrell mentioned. 

“I might love him,” Marino mentioned, pointing to Farrell, “with another person within the scene, you realize. It could possibly be cool.”

“However let’s see. We’ll see. There may be one thing in retailer. You realize, we don’t know but. It’s a secret,” Marino mentioned.

As a result of The Penguin‘s govt producers Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark are placing ending touches on their plans for the upcoming sequel to The Batman, it’s not solely nonetheless a secret which villains will seem within the movie — other than the already confirmed Penguin — but in addition neither Marino nor Farrell understand how a lot time can have handed between the tip of the HBO collection and the beginning of the second The Batman film. Which suggests Marino and Farrell nonetheless do not know how a lot the Penguin’s prosthetics would possibly change from the present to the movie.

“It depends upon the timeline,” Farrell mentioned. “If [Part 2] picks up every week after the present finishes, I wouldn’t say there’d be too many adjustments. But when there’s an elongation of the timeline — I do know we had been chatting the opposite night time — there are only a couple of little issues, refined issues that we may do.”

“Effectively, you realize, a human face is all the time altering, even when it’s every week,” Marino mentioned. “So the chance to vary it sooner or later, sure, it’s a chance.”

“I imply, from the start of the [first] movie until now, I imply, there are some minor adjustments technically, however I don’t assume something so substantial that’s so totally different…however technically, I believe, you realize, we’re all the time on a quest to enhance, you realize?”