Gotham EP John Stevens Talks Renee Montoya & Fish Mooney

John Stevens is an Executive Producer on the the hit TV show Gotham. At a Fox TCA party this past Saturday, he talked about the character of Renee Montoya and the love triangle between Renee Montoya, Barbara Keane & James Gordon as well as Fish Mooney.

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John Stevens said that Renee Montoya was the perfect fit for a love triangle, which the writers are always looking for:

"We knew we wanted someone inside the DCPD to be with Gordon, who’s investigating him, and Montoya felt like a strong character to be standing against him. I’m not sure where it’s going, honestly, because we’re not completely sure ourselves. A lot of times when you’re doing these kinds of stories, I feel like you have a literary wildcatter —’I think there’s oil out there! Let’s go out and try to find it!’ And then as a producer, you’ve gotta put the characters together and see, do they have chemistry? Do they not have chemistry? And when we had Erin and Victoria together: Oh! They have chemistry! They work really well together, so it’s something to keep writing towards."

John Stevens also discussed the character of Fish Mooney and her sexuality:

"Part of it is thinking that Fish uses sexuality as part of her power, and we also wanted a character who saw no boundaries either — legal, sexual, anything — who was driven out of the guiding principal, ‘I’m gonna do what I want, at all times. We wanted an anarchic character — somebody who could create chaos because everybody else is like, ‘No, no — I’m going to follow this path. I’m not going to anger that person.’ But Fish is like, ‘No, I’m going this way.’ And because of that, dominoes start to fal"

Read the full article at the link provided, where Stevens also discusses things like balancing screen time between all the characters of Gotham and be sure to catch Gotham Mondays on Fox!

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