It definitely worked!
Colin Farrell has revealed he used an unusual technique to nail down his New York accent in The Penguin.
The 48-year-old actor had to ditch his much loved Dublin accent to take on the role of the notorious Batman villain.
Speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, Colin revealed the process of learning the accent.
“My dialect coach, Jessica Drake, she has a library of thousands of accents from all over the world dating back to the ’30s and ’40s,” he recalled.
"After listening to multiple different recordings of that region, they narrowed down to the accent, which was good both “energetically” and soundwise — a middle-aged man and manager of an apartment in the 80s.”
The actor went on to reveal that when he found himself losing the accent he picked out from the dialect coach's library, he used a certain trick to get him back into it.
“He talked a lot about Gefilte fish,” Colin said, “And so whenever my accent started to go, she would call me back and I’d say ‘Gefilte fish’ and that was a little trick."
The Penguin is a spin-off series of the 2022 The Batman film starring Robert Pattinson. It follows the Gotham City villain in the aftermath of the events of the film.
According to the show’s synopsis, Oswald Cobblepot, AKA The Penguin, will move heaven and earth in attempt to take the reins of the crime world in Gotham.
Showrunner Lauren LeFranc claims that it’s less of a supervillain story and more of a “grounded character drama” about a very complicated man who’s problematic at times, overly pretentious with a dark sense of humor.
“It’s really grounded so there’s really no heroes or villains on our show; there’s just flawed, complicated people,” she added.
The Penguin is out now and available to watch in Ireland on and Sky Atlantic and NOW.
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