DeVito played the antagonist Penguin opposite Pfeiffer’s Catwoman and Michael Keaton’s Batman. He confessed that he “lusted” after Pfeiffer while the two were filming
Danny DeVito. Pic/AFP; (right) Michelle Pfeiffer and Danny DeVito in Batman Returns
Hollywood star Danny DeVito recently got candid about former co-star Michelle Pfeiffer. He confessed that he “lusted” after Pfeiffer while the two were filming Tim Burton-directed Batman Returns (1992).
DeVito played the antagonist Penguin opposite Pfeiffer’s Catwoman and Michael Keaton’s Batman.
He sat down for a conversation with Colin Farrell for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. He said, “She was a goddess.”
As per reports, Farrell, 49, quipped, “Did you brush your teeth that morning?”
“I got all flushed,” the senior actor responded. He added, “[I put] extra makeup on. It was very difficult.”
Pfeiffer, now 67, was “just so wonderful. And I lusted after her,” DeVito said. He then agreed with Farrell that it was his character, Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin, who was doing the lusting. “I kind of feel like she liked it. She liked Oswald,” DeVito said.
In Batman Returns, Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, rejects Oswald’s advances. In 2021, DeVito wrote a short story in which the two characters were romantically involved. It was featured in DC Comics’ Gotham City Villains, an anthology comic celebrating Batman’s rogues gallery.
“I got into the fact that I’ve always been a big fan of Michelle Pfeiffer’s, and the Penguin obviously lusts after Catwoman. So I figured I’d put those two together,” the Oscar nominee told Entertainment Weekly at the time.
Farrell, who played the same role in HBO’s drama The Penguin (2024), which streamed last fall, asked DeVito if he’d play the DC Comics villain again. “Absolutely,” answered DeVito. “You can go off the rails with something. The operatic element of Tim Burton’s Batman Returns was my favourite thing about it — the music, sets, and the whole thing. The Shakespeare of it, ‘All the world’s a stage’. Oswald’s realm, his penguins, his minions, and his passion. I loved that.”
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