Interview With "The Penguin" Star Deirdre O'Connell

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

"The Penguin" is one of the most nominated television shows of the year, receiving an astounding 24 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and Outstanding Lead Actor, Actress, and Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, and Deirdre O'Connell, respectively. O'Connell was kind enough to spend some time before the nominations were announced talking with us about her character, Francis Cobb, the mother of Farrell's titular character, her work, and her experience making the critically acclaimed limited series. Please be sure to listen to the interview below and check out the show itself, which is now available to stream in full on HBO Max and is up for your consideration at the 77th annual Emmy Awards in all eligible categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Lago's interview with one of the stars of the Emmy nominated hit limited series, The Penguin.
0:10.0	Diedra O'Connell
0:11.1	Come on.
0:13.0	You can't help me up.
0:14.1	Come on.
0:17.2	You promised me I as a world.
0:19.7	I know that.
0:22.6	I deserve the better life. I'm working on it.
0:28.6	The world ain't set up for the honest man to succeed.
0:31.6	That should be the American dream right there.
0:34.6	You know, a beautiful story with a happy ending. But that ain't the way the right there. You know, beautiful story with a happy ending.
0:39.8	But that ain't the way the world works.
0:43.3	America's a hustle.
0:50.8	Not that I'm complaining.
0:52.9	Hello, how are you today? I'm fine. How are you? Where are you? I'm in New York. Me too. The best place on here. There we go. I'm in Flatbush in Brooklyn. Okay, so there's a reason for us to be on the room. Not like you could just walk out of our you'd be like, well, there you were.
1:11.7	Of course not.
1:12.9	But now here we are.
1:14.4	This is the next best series podcast.
1:17.1	Today, of course, I'm joined by the star of the penguin, D'Jr O'Connell.
1:21.7	Thank you so much for joining me today.
1:23.7	You're so welcome.
1:24.7	You know, I think the character of Francis is so fascinating because on paper could have easily just been a one-dimensional role.
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