Gotham Stars Talk About Legacy

The stars of Gotham have inherited roles that have a long history and a legacy to them. Ben McKenzie (James Gordon), Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin) & Donal Logue (Harvey Bullock) talked with CTV about taking on these roles in Gotham.

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Ben McKenzie was anxious about the role of James Gordon in Gotham and talked about the fact that this is a part of Gordon’s life that usually hasn’t been explored and spoke with Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment Geoff Johns about source material:

"There’s actually not a lot from this time period of [Jim] Gordon’s life, there’s very little actually.I realized in the middle of this [conversation] that I’m asking him for permission."

Johns told McKenzie he was perfect for the job and hired for a reason.

"All of us interpret… because that’s what we do. You can’t do an impression of somebody else, you can’t satisfy everyone either”. We’re respectful of the legacy and the franchise and the people that have come before. But no good art is made out of trying to copy the previous incarnation."

Robin Lord Taylor, who plays The Penguin on Gotham talks about the freedom they had to interpret these characters:

"It’s pretty remarkable because you would think that because all these characters have been portrayed in some fashion before that there wouldn’t be a lot of room for your own interpretation. We do actually have a remarkable amount of freedom to really establish these characters because so many of them show up in the comics as fully formed villains or heroes so we actually have a lot of room here to really create who they were."

And finally Donal Logue, who plays Harvey Bullock on Gotham talked about how his idea of the role of Harvey Bullock changed:

"Whatever preset idea I had going into it, when I started putting it on its feet, it changed because of the dynamic of who you’re with. I’ve oddly never felt compelled for a second to do what someone else has done."

Be sure to catch the stars of Gotham Mondays on Fox!

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