The Penguin’s Colin Farrell Addresses Being The Third Actor To Win A Golden Globe For Playing A DC Villain After Heath Ledger And Joaquin Phoenix

After winning a Golden Globe for his performance in The Penguin, Colin Farrell has earned a distinction only a few DC villain actors have before. Namely, both Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix won Golden Globes for their performances as the Joker in The Dark Knight and Joker, respectively. In a press conference, Farrell addressed joining this club of talented actors:

Two-one to the Joker. Two-one to the Joker takes it. No, I mean you mentioned two actors who are, I think, for my money, two of the most extraordinary, talented, gifted, and just brilliant artists in film that I’ve ever had the fortune to observe and be affected by, you know. What Heath did in Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight was extraordinary and will live on for future generations. And what Joaquin did with Joker was—as exemplified by all the awards that he won and the Oscar—extraordinary. He was so special, both of them. So to have your name thrown into it, just uttered in the same sentence as those performances and stuff, honestly, it’s lovely. But I still approach it all more from just a fan overall, you know.

Farrell was humbled by the comparison. However, he denied taking a place among their ranks:

I don’t feel like I’m part of that pantheon. I won’t be going home tonight going, ‘I’m part of that pantheon.’ But yeah, just Joaquin and Heath, just two extraordinarily honest, brilliant guys.

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