Colin Farrell on That Gut-Wrenching Death in THE PENGUIN - "There Was a Dark Energy That Night"

Spoilers ahead for those of you who haven’t watched the season finale of The Penguin.

The Penguin season finale ended in a very very dark, shocking, and gut-wrenching way. That ending hurt because it involved the death of a character that I really liked, a character that did not deserve to die the way he did.

Colin Ferrell recently spoke at a Q&A following a screening of The Penguin finale at the Saban Media Center and during that, the actor described what is was like for the cast and crew on the evening of their final shoot for the series.

That final scene shot was the scene where Ferrell’s Oswald Cobb murdered Victor Aguilar (Rhenzy Feliz). Feliz described the moment before his death “as perhaps the most vulnerable interaction between Oz and Victor in the entire series.”

After telling Oz that he is the closest thing he has to family, Oz proceeds to strangle Vic to death. I hated to watch that, and any sympathy that you had for Oz that was built up over the course of the series was thrown in the garbage disposal and shredded to smithereens.

Ferrell explained of the scene: “It was really taking the last vestige of innocence. Somebody who had given so much of his life, who had suffered so much loss and had offered up so much loyalty, so much love…it was seeing that light get snuffed out by the person that he had offered all that to.”

The actor went on to talk about both his hatred and respect for how Victor’s story arc came to an end and then said: “There was a dark energy that night.

“If you’re going to ask the audience to fall in love with the character, which I feel the audience has fallen in love with Rhenzy’s Vic, there’s a world that the crew are gonna fall in love with that character as well.”

Deirdre O’Connell, the actress who plays Oz’s mother Francis Cobb, talked about how the final page of the last episode in the series required her to shed a singular tear as she lays in a vegetative state.

As for what went through her mind when she shot that scene, she said: “I don’t even know if he knew he was doing it and I don’t know how a human can do it, but he withdrew his love. It was absolutely clear in the room that Oz withdrew his love and I felt it, and my blood ran cold. He gave me the tear.”

Farrell went on to say: “It was so human, and it was so relatable. It was painful but there was also beauty there.”

I understand that this is where the story needed to go and that killing Vic is what would take Oz fully into the dark side, but it was still rough to get through.

Source: Variety