Colin Farrell recalls first film with Andrew Scott as he beats him to award
The Irish actor has won at the Golden Globes three times.
Irish actor Colin Farrell has won his third Golden Globe, for playing the Batman villain Penguin in an HBO series of the same name.
He celebrated his fellow nominees including Andrew Scott as he won.
The actor beat Richard Gadd for dark comedy Baby Reindeer, Ewan McGregor for Russian-set historical comedy A Gentleman In Moscow, and Scott for the remake of Ripley on Netflix to best performance by a male actor in a limited or anthology series or TV film.
Farrell, an Oscar-nominated actor, wore heavy prosthetics as he campaigned to be the new kingpin of Gotham in the limited series, which has been billed as “the next chapter in the Batman saga”.
On stage, he joked that he had “no one to thank” and “did it all by myself”.
To Scott, he recalled their first movie together, Drinking Crude, and said: “(Andrew) who I did my first film with 25, 30 years ago. You can’t even find it on Betamax. It doesn’t exist. But we go back that far.”
He added to Scottish actor Gadd, whose experience of stalking and sexual assault inspired the Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer, that “you broke my heart with your work this year”.
Farrell’s previous Golden Globe wins were for Irish black comedy films In Bruges and The Banshees Of Inisherin, which were both directed by Martin McDonagh.
Recalling the three hours it took to fit him with prosthetics to make him the bloated villain in his latest film, he said: ” In the morning, I drank black coffee, listened to 80s music, and I became a canvas for that team’s brilliance.”
Farrell also said: “Thank you for employing me. And yeah, I guess it’s prosthetics from here on out.”
