Cancel anytime. Tear down the empire from the inside out. Colin Farrell figures he has donned the Penguin’s makeup some 90 times – for both the film, “The Batman,” and now, the series, “The Penguin.” And, no, it doesn’t get any easier.

When Colin Farrell looked in the mirror after donning prosthetic makeup for his role as the title character in the Max series “The Penguin,” he could no longer recognize himself.

But Matt Reeves’s The Batman pushed against that trend by returning to the dingy noir roots of Gotham City’s most famous crime-fighter. The 2022 film, starring former vampire heartthrob Robert Pattinson as the rubber-eared vigilante,