Colin Farrell.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Colin Farrellhas been named the winner!
“Guilty as charged,” he joked as he took the stage after presenterJamie Lee Curtisteased him for giving her COVID-19 at the Golden Globes last month. “ButBrendan Gleesonf—ing gave it to me, so I was just spreading the love!”
“So many of you I grew up watching on television, film,” the actor added as he looked at the audience. “So many I’ve worked with over the years and shared in the spirit of collaborative curiosity and all the stuff that we fail at doing and we succeed at doing, and none of it is ever quantifiable. And that’s the beautiful thing and the annoying thing about what we do — it’s just unquantifiable, it’s play time. You don’t get to fully grow up. You get to kind of keep the dream of a child alive, to try to figure out what it is to be human, and it’s so much fun.”
Jamie Lee Curtis and Colin Farrell.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
He also acknowledged the cast and crew ofThe Penguin,along with his fellow nominees, saying “we all support each other.” Then, he sent thanks to his family after poking fun at his long speech: “Please, shut up, Farrell, it says [on the teleprompter].”
“I have to thank my sister who I’ve worked with for 22 years,” Farrell gushed. “I never thank her publicly, but Claudine Farrell, I haven’t noted that she’s a producer and she’s not my assistant. She’s not my assistant — sister, she’s family, she’s a producer.”
He continued: “My sister Catherine, who’s the first actor in the family and showed me that that was a possibility to pursue that passion. My brother Eamon, who texted me last night that Netflix is showing this live and he’s staying up in his pajamas to watch it. Eamon, I love you. Catherine, I love you. My mom, Rita, my dad, Eamon, and the two people in my life who have made my life so much more special and so much more meaningful, so much more joyful than I ever truly thought possible: my son James and son Henry.”
Javier Bardem.Miles Crist/Netflix
Miles Crist/Netflix
Bardem, 55, was nominated for his portrayal of José Menendez inMonsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.TheRyan Murphy-led Netflix series is based on the real-life of brothers Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch) Menendez, who killed their parents José and Kitty in 1989.
In November, heopened up about taking the role, revealing that he didn’t join the trip some of his castmates took to go meet the brothers in prison.
“First of all, I didn’t know much or more basically anything about the story when [series co-creator] Ryan Murphy talked to me, because it wasn’t that big in Spain," he toldVariety. “And then once I dig in, I was like, ‘Wow, this is really, really sensitive material.'”
“I knew I had to trust the research Ryan and [co-creator] Ian Brennan did,” he added. “It was all there in the writing. So I said, ‘I don’t need to talk to anybody.’ And also I was very, very…the word is not scared, but I never felt for a second that I would be able to sit down with the murderers.”
Colin Farrell.Macall Polay/HBO
Macall Polay/HBO
Farrell, 48, earned his nomination for the reprisal of his role fromThe Batmanfor the limited seriesThe Penguin,in which he played the titular character. The part required a massive physical transformation, which Farrell spoke about withPEOPLE and other outletsat the premiere of the HBO series in September.
“It’s not like I ever fully lost sense of myself, but it was a very powerful thing to know yourself a certain way for 45 years and to see a reflection,” he explained of the dramatic costumes and makeup. “And it also kind of made me aware of how much I identified with how I look.”
“As soon as I look in the mirror and none of me was there, then, I had more of a blank slate than I usually have [going] to work,” he added. “It was amazing. It was really, really powerful. It was something very powerful and very kind of hypnotic to the experience.”
Richard Gadd.Ed Miller/Netflix
Ed Miller/Netflix
In November, Kline and Blanchett spoke with theLos Angeles Timesabout their roles, and Kline said a highlight of the experience was getting to work with such skilled people.
“Alfonso is very, very detail-oriented,” he noted. “That’s what struck me the first day of working. I had never worked with a director who was that meticulous and that concerned with foreground, background, decor, costume, hair, makeup, accent, acting, mood, atmosphere.”
Andrew Scott.Courtesy of NETFLIX
Courtesy of NETFLIX
“It was a heavy part to play,” he toldVanity Fairin December 2023.“I found it mentally and physically really hard. That’s just the truth of it.”
“I feel like you’re required to love and advocate for your characters, and your job is to go, ‘Why? What’s that?’ You don’t play the opinions, the previous attitudes that people might have about Tom Ripley,” Scott, who also served as executive producer of the limited series, added. “You have to throw all those out, try not to listen to them, and go, ‘Okay, well, I have to have the courage to create our own version and my own understanding of the character.'”
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