Colin Farrell took his first screen actor guild prize home on Sunday night, so he got more than he negotiated.
The 48 Irish actors who led Max’s Batman spinoff, “The Penguin,” won the award for Best Actor in a limited series. He was presented with a statue known as an “actor” by “The Last Showgirl” star Jamie Lee Curtis.
“And the actor is… the guy who covided me at the Golden Globes: Colin Farrell,” Curtis said.
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“Guilty of crime!” Farrell responded with a smile as he arrived on stage. “But Brendan Gleason (co-star in Farrell’s “Inisherin’s Banshee”) gave it to me! So I was just spreading love. ”
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Farrell gave a sweet speech thanking her two sons, James, 21, Henry (15), and thanking her younger sister Claudine and brother Eamon. He also paid tribute to his fellow candidates, which made him emotional.
“It’s so weird,” Farrell said. “I grew up watching TV and on film. I worked with him for many years and shared a spirit of supportive curiosity and the failure of everything we were doing. It was It’s annoying about what we’re doing.
“It can’t be quantified. It’s playtime. You can’t grow up to the fullest. You can keep your child’s dreams alive when you try to grasp that it is human. It’s It’s so much fun.”