Gotham: Ben McKenzie & Robin Lord Taylor Talk Tonight’s Episode
We are only hours away from an all new episode of Gotham. Stars Ben McKenzie & Robin Lord Taylor, who play James Gordon & Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin respectively talked with Variety about tonight’s episode.
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Firstly, McKenzie talked about him chasing down Arkham Asylum escapee Jack Gruber, aka, The Electrocutioner, in tonight’s episode of Gotham:
"It presents Jim with an opportunity, because he’s able to pitch himself as the only man who can catch them, because he knows them."
McKenzie calls tonight’s episode of Gotham “One of the best we’ve ever done”. He also gave a hint about the future of Arkham Asylum in Gotham:
"It’s big and fun and just very entertaining. To have this bizarre villain let loose on the streets of Gotham with his henchman is a fun little conceit and it’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what Arkham is eventually going to do to Gotham. All of these villains will eventually be committed there and get even worse while in close proximity to each other."
McKenzie teased the future appearance of a certain Dr. Crane as well that we know is in the February 2nd episode of Gotham:
"[Episodes] 14 and 15 are a tandem of Dr. Crane and his son. I haven’t seen them put together yet but it’s quite disturbing, actually, to encounter these villains before they become themselves. [We] see that a lot of their eventual psychosis is rooted in trauma that’s perpetuated on them by their parents. It’s rough. I hope it allows the viewer to become sympathetic to these villains, to actually see them for the fragile human beings that they are. If we can do that, that’ll be a neat trick, and allow us to go in all sorts of different directions in future seasons."
Robin Lord Taylor talked about Penguin’s balancing his double life as a member of Sal Maroni’s gang while also being a spy for Carmine Falcone:
"This is one of the first times where you see the pull between the two; he has to really scramble to maintain his integrity to one and also his integrity to his ultimate boss, Don Falcone, and at the same time maintain his own personal integrity, because he’s really in it just for himself. It’s all about self-preservation for him. So from my character’s perspective, that’s the most exciting thing about the upcoming episode — seeing him torn between the two and also scrambling and trying to make it work. It adds to that humanness; if he was constantly successful and had everything plotted out, it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting or as fun to play."
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