Colin Farrell Jokes 'It's Prosthetics Here on Out' After Golden Globes 2025 Win forThe Penguin

Mar. 15, 2025

Colin Farrell gives an acceptance speech during the 82nd Annual Golden Globes on Jan. 5, 2025.Photo:CBS

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Colin Farrellwon big at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 5, taking home the trophy for best male actor in a limited or anthology series.

The award, Farrell’s third Golden Globe ever, was in in honor of his performance inThe Penguin. The Max series saw Farrell reprise his role as the villainous Gotham gangster, which he first played in  Matt Reeves’s 2022 film,The Batman.

For the part, Farrell underwent a massive physical transformation, spending three hours a day in makeup to turn into Oswald Cobblepot. "

He went on to thank makeup artist Michael Marino, who designed the Penguin’s look, as well as his “extraordinary” team. “All it took was three hours in the chair in the morning,” Farrell explained. “I drank black coffee, listened to ’80s music, and I became a canvas for that team’s brilliance.”

“I guess it’s prosthetics for here on out,” he teased.

Colin Farrell in ‘The Penguin’.Macall Polay/HBO

Macall Polay/HBO

Farrell, 48, opened up to PEOPLE in September about becoming the Penguin.

“I had a bodysuit, so I was basically covered wrist to ankle. Only things that were me were my hands and feet,” he explained. “Everything else, including ears, were pieces. Everything was covered.”

The limited eight-episode series, which picks up after the events ofRobert Pattinson-ledThe Batman, followed Oz as he tried to take on a new leadership role in the Gotham City underworld.

Elsewhere in his speech, Farrell thankedThe Penguin’s creative team, his costars, and even someone on the craft services team.

“Carolina on those cold winter nights in New York where I was the only one over-heating, she’d be there with a coconut water every half an hour. Carolina, God bless you. She kept the whole crew going.”

Ed Miller/Netflix

Other nominees on Sunday includedRichard Gadd,Kevin Kline,Cooper Koch,Ewan McGregorandAndrew Scott. Each had an outstanding year themselves.

In the hit Netflix series, the actor plays a version of himself — a bartender who ends up with a stalker named Martha (Jessica Gunning) — after he offers her a cup of tea while working at London pub.

Thereal-life Martha, Fiona Harvey,sued Netflix in Junefor $140 million, claiming the streaming service and Gadd made it easy for viewers to identify her and ruin her livelihood. Harvey, 48, found the portrayal of Martha to be defamatory and inaccurate. Still, the seven-episode series drew in enough viewers to make it Netflix’s10th most watched English-language showsas of June.

“I think nobody thought that it would be the stratospheric, Emmy-nominated success that it became. And it was overnight,” Gadd toldThe Hollywood Reporter.

Kline, 77, was nominated for his performance inDisclaimer.

Disclaimer, based on Renée Knight’s best-selling novel of the same name, followed acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett), who “built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others,” per the official synopsis.

As she tries to find out the writer’s true identity, she has to “confront her past before it destroys both her own life” and her relationships with both her husband, Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen), and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

Cooper Koch in ‘Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story’.Courtesy Of Netflix

Courtesy Of Netflix

Koch, 28, was nominated for his performance as Erik Menendez inMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

TheRyan Murphy-led Netflix series brought one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 1990s back into the forefront. The series examined how and whyErikandLyle Menendez(Nicholas Alexander Chavez) murdered their parents, José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty (Chloe Sevigny) — including the brothers' in-court allegations that their parents were sexually and emotionally abusive.

Koch also previously detailed his meeting with Erik, tellingDeadline, “Preparing to play him was, in a way, preparing to meet him at the same time. Because in preparing to play him, I developed such a care and true — I just care so much for him.”

He added, “I believe him, I think he’s an amazing human being. And so, after playing him, getting to meet him was so rewarding and special and one of the most amazing experiences I think I’ll ever have in my life.”

(L) Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’.Ben Blackall/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME

Ben Blackall/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME

McGregor, 53, was nominated for his performance inA Gentleman in Moscow.

In the Paramount+ series, McGregor plays Russian aristocrat Alexander Rostov, who avoids being put to death as he is placed on house arrest during the Bolshevik Revolution. He stars opposite wifeMary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays actress Anna Urbanova and Rostov’s love interest.

The actor previously opened up about using an intimacy coordinator for their sex scenes.

“It’s odd to be naked in front of people, it’s odd to be intimate in front of the camera,” he toldRadio Times, perVariety. “If you were doing a dance scene, you’d have a choreographer. It’s an important part of the work now, because it’s somebody that the director and actors meet in the middle.”

Andrew Scott in ‘Ripley’.Netflix

Netflix

Netflix’sRipley,based onPatricia Highsmith’s 1955 novelThe Talented Mr. Ripley,starsScott, 48, as con-man Tom Ripley. The story had previously been told in the 1999 movieThe Talented Mr. RipleystarringMatt DamonandJude Law, and Scott wanted to put a new twist on the tale.

“People have a lot of preconceptions about Tom Ripley,” Scott toldNetflix’s Tudumin July. “So it’s my job, I suppose in some ways, to ignore all that and try to create our own particular version of it.”

In addition to Scott, the series and his costarDakota Fanningwere also nominated for best limited series and actress in a supporting role respectively.

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