8:55AM Defamer Hollywood | In recent weeks, rumours that Philip Seymour Hoffman would play the Penguin in the next
Batman installment have become so widespread that even Michael Caine began to
repeat them as fact (claiming that he first read of them in a newspaper, then confirmed the rumours with a WB executive). However, if Hoffman is soon to don a monocle and top hat, this is the first he’s heard of it (and he’s
totally going to miss his call time). Speaking to
MTV News at the Toronto Film Festival, Hoffman said that much like a persistent archvillain, the Penguin rumour is one that reappears to torment him every few years:
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