A rotund, middle-aged mystery man showed up to the set of "The Batman" early in production. The skin on his face was weatherbeaten, scarred. He brought with him a slight limp and a beaklike nose, jowls and slightly arched eyebrows. He resembled the missing link between the ghosts of Danny Aiello and Powers Boothe, with the rough, big-city bark of a two-bit gangster. No one knew him, yet he kept greeting people, the big stars in the cast, as if he knew them.
"Nobody would look at him," says Mike Marino, who was there that day. "They thought, 'Who is this scary guy on set?' " He laughs triumphantly. "All the actors — Jeffrey Wright, Zoë Kravitz — everybody was like, 'Why is this guy saying hello to me? This guy's crazy, weird.' No one knew it was him."
It turned out underneath that ravaged exterior was their co-star Colin Farrell, in his first full makeup test as Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot — aka the Penguin.
