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In 2020, Colin Farrell began a six-year back-and-forth between two polar opposite characters, Oz “The Penguin” Cobb and John Sugar.
That’s not to say that there aren’t some similarities between the Gotham City gangster in The Penguin and Los Angeles private investigator of Sugar. They’re both cinephiles. They both have a knack for anticipating human behavior in order to garner their preferred outcome, and they each have talent for wriggling (or waddling) their way out of jams.
However, their core selves are night-and-day different in that Oz will hurt anyone and everyone to get what he wants, even his own flesh and blood. Conversely, Oz is as altruistic as one can be, and he’ll often endure great pain if it means defending the defenseless. Oh, and he happens to be an alien.
For Farrell, Sugar and his two seasons’ worth of time as the compassionate PI has served as an antidote and “sanity check” to the toxic, unrecognizable Penguin character he’s transformed into via three-hour makeup processes on Matt Reeves’ The Batman and Lauren LeFranc’s The Penguin series. (The Irish actor will soon be reprising Oz Cobb for the third time in Reeves’ The Batman: Part II.)
