Danny DeVito Praises Colin Farrell’s Penguin, But Still Prefers Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’
thewrap.com“The Batman,” and he’s gotten the seal of approval from an expert on the matter: former Penguin actor Danny DeVito.DeVito played the iconic Batman villain in director Tim Burton’s 1992 film “Batman Returns,” and while speaking with TheWrap about his upcoming HBO film “The Survivor,” we asked if he had a chance to catch Farrell’s take on the character in “The Batman” yet.“Yes, I did, I thought Colin did a great job,” DeVito said. “Certainly a different milieu.
I think it was a more edgy, serious, gangster-y Batman. Of course there’s three Italians who are bad guys in it, the Falcones (laughs).
But I feel like in terms of the performances, I thought Colin – who is a good buddy of mine – I think he did a great job in that.
You take your hat off to anybody who sits in the makeup chair that long. I did it with The Penguin and loved it.”But DeVito also admitted that he’s still partial to Burton’s more Gothic take on the character versus the more realistic and grounded approach that director Matt Reeves took the story in “The Batman.”“My feeling of comparing the two movies, I’m like a Tim Burton fan,” DeVito added. “I like the whimsical, the operatic, the disaffected Pee-wee Herman throws me off a bridge (laughs).
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