Reports that is finished with have been greatly exaggerated. The Irish actor made a comment a couple months back that sounded like he was fed up with the villain role and its of three hours in the makeup chair. (“I never want to put on that fucking suit and fucking head again,” .
) But that was before the premiered and received an outpouring of adoration from fans, with that have grown week after week (as well as generating plenty of buzz for Farrell and his castmates). “If there’s a great idea [for season two], and the writing was really muscular and as strong or stronger on the page than it was the first season, of course I would do it,” Farrell tells . It was the fan response that helped evolve his mindset, the actor says.
“For me, the bar for success is not very high. It’s, ‘Do most people like it?’ — just the simplicity of that. I love being in things that are critically approved — it’s much better than the alternative — but I’ve been around long enough [to know] that it’s the audience who are really the most important critics.
” Across eight episodes, chronicled underworld boss Oz Cobb’s brutal rise to power. The show originally was devised as a limited series intended to simply bridge creator Matt Reeves’ 2022 film with his forthcoming 2026 sequel . But the massive success has Reeves and in talks with HBO to continue the project.
(They wouldn’t be the first to follow this recent arc: HBO’s and FX’s both shifted from limited runs .
