At the premiere of 'The Penguin,' Michael Zegen tells THR how much he misses his 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' family and wanting a 'Maisel' movie. Plus, he talks working with Colin Farrell and seeing him in prosthetics for the first time.
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00:00Were you big into the Batman comics growing up?
00:02I was. I was. Yeah. I, you know, when I was a kid, the Tim Burton movie came out and it
00:09changed my life. I was obsessed with Batman. I rushed out and got all the comic books.
00:14I collected comic books, read comic books for years. Batman being, you know, the predominant
00:20one. Michael Keaton is the only Batman for me now. No, actually, I thought Robert Pattinson
00:25did a really great job and when I found out he was cast, I was like, that's perfect.
00:29So, to get to, you know, play a small, even a small part in this universe, in this, you
00:34know, Pattinson, Matt Reeves universe is so special.
00:37Well, it's also incredible to see Colin Farrell completely transform into this character.
00:43What was it like first seeing him walk out onto the set and was there a scene that you
00:47shared with him that particularly stood out to you?
00:50Well yes. This, the first scene in this, in this first episode is basically me and him.
00:56Yeah, you haven't seen it yet.
00:58No, I have not.
00:59But I lived it. But yeah, so it was also the first scene that we shot for the entire show.
01:09So I was like super nervous, he was nervous, everybody was nervous, the crew was nervous.
01:14So yeah, and he couldn't have been more pleasant to work with. He, you know, he never forgot
01:21a line. Like, we shot that scene over two days and never once forgot a line. I mean,
01:25I forgot a few. It was also freezing cold in that studio because he was wearing all
01:29the prosthetics. And so he jacked, he had the air conditioning jacked up. So it was
01:34like, it was like minus 30 in the studio and I'm not wearing prosthetics. So I was free,
01:39I was shivering, like, and, and in the scene, you'll see, like, I'm supposed to be cocky,
01:44I'm supposed to be confident, you know, and I'm just like, underneath, I'm shivering.
01:47Well, you haven't seen it yet. So maybe, maybe you, maybe you do play it cool.
01:50I've asked a few people, they agree. I was cool. Yeah.
01:54Well, I know that the show has also been likened a little bit to The Sopranos in recent days.
01:59What do you make of those comparisons?
02:00Yeah, I mean, again, I haven't seen it yet, but they're both, you know, mob shows. And
02:06so I could see the comparisons. I guess Colin maybe resembles James Gandolfini a little
02:11bit. Maybe that, maybe that's part of the comparisons as well. But, but there's certainly,
02:17you know, probably more death in this show and destruction and, you know, Gotham's not
02:23not really New Jersey. It's a little more dangerous. I'm from New Jersey, so I know.
02:29But, but yeah, I could see the comparisons for sure.
02:32Finally, I wanted to say this past Sunday were the Emmys. It was the first one without
02:36the Maisel family there to kind of represent a little bit, a little bittersweet.
02:39Yeah, we deserve more Emmys, I think. Yeah.
02:41More seasons, please.
02:43Please. Hey, I mean, you're preaching to the choir. I would love to do more seasons. I
02:48would love to do a Maisel movie. Let's do it.
02:50Yeah, let's pitch it. Let's pitch it out there. But I wanted to say...
02:53I've pitched it multiple times by now, yeah.
02:55What is your bond with the cast like now? Are you guys, do you guys still have a group
02:58text or group chat going?
02:59Yeah, we have a group chat. We were texting each other on Sunday, you know, because we
03:03were sad we weren't together. But, you know, we're all in different places and everybody's
03:09working. And I mean, I miss them so much. I miss that show so much. But, you know, we'll
03:16see each other again. It'll happen. We'll have a reunion soon.