How to sound like: Colin Farrell as the Penguin in The Batman

Just thought I might go through some voices for you to work on at home. Just remember not to use it too often, especially if you are really good at it and all of you have a special skill and I bet with just a little practice, you'd all make one fine troupe of performers joining Monty Python Junior.

Okay, the first voice is Colin Farrell as the Penguin in The Batman so let's get started.

1) Use a deep and gruff voice with a thick New York accent and a variable tempo that gives him a gangster vibe.

2) Use a raspy and guttural timbre.

3) Use a normal voice pace.

4) Use loud volume.

5) Use a low vocal range, a low octave, a low pitch and a low tessitura.

6) Use a baritone register and a baritone voice type.

7) Use a dramatic baritone voice subtype.

8) Use a heavy vocal weight.

9) Use a strong and clear articulation.

10) Use a pompous, threatening and manipulative performance.

11) Use a tough and egocentric approach.

12) Prepare the role like James Cagney in a gangster role.

13) Imagine yourself as a penguin living on an iceberg/nightclub with a group of penguins and working as a lieutenant of a penguin crime boss.

14) Channel Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction.

15) Play the character with the perspective and characterization of him as a gentle-hearted and simple-minded young man who was smothered by his mother, betrayed by his close friends and people he trusted and grew up to be arrogant and full of himself.

16) Use a dark and narcissistic tone.

17) Improvise dialogue or anything.

18) Use a slow and steady cadence.

19) Try an exaggerated impression of him. Even if your impression isn’t very good, the attempt has probably pushed your voice in several interesting ways, giving you a really distinctive voice.

20) Lastly, use a cold and menacing delivery.

That's about it. If it helps, let me know. I'll put together a wee guide like this one. As always, thanks for reading and feel free to make comments in the box below.

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