Last season was a big year for Warner Bros. TV and DC Comics as they premiered several new DC TV shows, including FOX’s Batman prequel series Gotham, which tells the origin stories of Jim Gordon (played by Ben McKenzie) and of Gotham’s most iconic villains before The Dark Knight became the city’s protector. One of those antagonists is Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin (played by Robin Lord Taylor), who has been one of the most well-received characters on the series and was a huge highlight of Season 1.
TVOvermind was fortunate enough to participate in the Gotham Press Room at San Diego Comic-Con with other news outlets at roundtables where stars and producers from the show discussed what is coming up in Season 2. Taylor was one of the people we got to talk to, and you can watch his entire roundtable interview in the video below. Here are some of the highlights:
When asked about what Penguin will seek for in the second season: “More power! It’s in-sensational with him. In his life, and forgive me if I’m repeating myself, as I have learned when I went back to the comics, he was a bullied kid for the way he looked and his interests. He got the crap kicked out of him every day on the streets like garbage, basically counted out his entire life. So that need for power, that need is deeply rooted in his psyche just by all that pain he went through as a child. Also, as a first generation immigrant family, all he has is his mom. You don’t really know who his dad is or where dad is, but all of that has led him to his desire for power, and he knows as well as anybody that once he becomes the ‘big cheese’ of Gotham City, [he] will have a giant target on [his] back! There is someone there that wants to bring you back down, and he knows that he just has to maintain control and hold on to it. We will see how successful he is with that.”
Whether there will be more scenes between him and his mother (played by Carol Kane): “I hope so! In the first season, the only two people that Oswald really trusted were his mother and, at the time, Jim Gordon. That has changed, because as you may have seen in the finale, after all Oswald has done for Jim—and this is from Oswald’s perspective–Jim was going to let him die chained to a radiator and completely sells him out. Their friendship is, as far as I’m concerned, done, so they still need each other. I truly believe that Oswald really wanted to be Jim’s friend and wanted to connect with him, but that’s all different now. Now there is only one person in his life that he trusts and cherishes and that’s his mother. I’m freaked out because that’s a liability, but now that Oswald has power, he has the ability to protect her, and I’m just banking on that because I just need more Carol in my life!”
Gotham Season 2 begins on Monday Sept.21, at 8 p.m. on FOX. Stay tuned for more roundtable videos of the cast and producers in the next few days right here at TVOvermind.
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