Gotham: Robin Lord Taylor Teases Penguin & Riddler

We’ve got loads of Robin Lord Taylor for you today! Of course Robin Lord Taylor plays rising mobster Penguin on Gotham on Fox, and we’ve got some great interview bits for you.

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Firstly, we’ve heard how Ben Mckenzie, who plays James Gordon, feels the relationship between Penguin & Gordon is going to evolve, this is something Robin Lord Taylor talked about with CBR:

Well, in a weird way, they both need each other. Even though they’re on opposite sides of the fence — Jim is on the legal side of things, Penguin is on the other side — they weirdly need each other as allies, because Gotham is a place where you have to use the bad to get the good to happen. There’s no just one good way of doing things. You have to get your hands dirty for the ultimate good of everyone. Their relationship is very complicated in that way.

It’s interesting too, because from Oswald’s perspective, Jim Gordon is the only person — besides his mother — that he trusts in Gotham City. I think he really does view Jim as a friend and does see him as someone that he would like to be close to. Jim does not feel the same way, obviously, but at the same time, Jim wouldn’t be where he is if he hadn’t saved Penguin’s life. It’s just interesting — again, they need each other.

Playing that with Ben, when we get a scene together, we check in with each other. We make sure that where he’s coming from is true to where I’m coming from. Like, in the moments where I’ve said I wanted to change a certain word of a phrase here and there, because I don’t think Penguin would ever want Jim to feel uncomfortable, because he actually really does value him as a person. He’s too smart and too empathetic of a person, in a weird way, to allow Jim to feel weirded out. It’s a really interesting dynamic. It’s so fun to play.

Both in that interview and with a recent interview with IGN, Robin Lord Taylor teases a meeting between Penguin and Edward Nygma, who has yet to become the Riddler, but may start down that path by the end of this first season:

"Yeah. Edward Nygma. Cory Michael Smith, all the way. I’m such a huge fan of Cory’s, and I can tease that we do have a moment. Penguin and Riddler meet, coming up, which is one of my favorite things that we’ve shot in the entire series. It’s just one scene, but the dynamic between the two of them, they’re such oddballs and they’re so different from each other in the way that they’re odd, you know? I’m not gonna say, I’m not gonna say [If they get along]. But it’s such a fascinating dynamic. I just cannot wait to see where that goes. Not just that, but also having a scene with another classic Batman villain — which hasn’t really happened yet. I mean, I think Fish Mooney is now a classic villain, but not until this series — but not ones from the comics. It’s such an amazing moment. I’m really excited for it."

Finally, we have a video interview with IGN, where Robin Lord Taylor talks about among other things not counting out Fish Mooney after the events of the most recent Gotham episode his reaction to Danny Devito, who played the Penguin in Batman, giving Taylor’s performance in Gotham high praise:

Be sure to catch Robin Lord Taylor’s amazing performance as The Penguin on Gotham Mondays on Fox!

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