Margot Robbie revealed in a new interview that The Penguin was originally the villain of her 2020 DC film "Birds of Prey" before "The Batman" filmmaker Matt Reeves asked her to use a different DC Comics character.

Farrell, who portrays Oswald 'Oz' Cobblepot, a.k.a. the Penguin, in The Batman (2022) and the HBO series The Penguin (2024), was surprised to learn that his character was originally intended to appear in Robbie’s Birds of Prey film. As Farrell explained that their characters:

Colin Farrell and Margot have teamed up for their first ever collaborative project titled, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. The two actors are widely known for playing the famous DC characters

Netflix is queuing up what could be one of its most interesting hits yet, bringing together one of the hottest actors in the game with a director who's on a real streak – and it looks genuinely ravishing.

Before Colin Farrell's tenure as Oswald Cobblepot, Margot Robbie almost went toe-to-toe with the DC supervillain in 'Birds of Prey' (2020).

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Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton also star in the feature that premieres at TIFF and adapts Lawrence Osborne's 2014 novel.

Edward Berger returns to Netflix, adapting a Lawrence Osborne novel into an awards season player starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton.