[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9033″ img_size=”800×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]While we can all agree that Robin Lord Taylor plays a fantastic Penguin on Fox’s Gotham, it is plain to see that he is not a comic book accurate version of the Batman villain we know so well. The last well-known live-action adaptation of the character was Danny DeVito, who wore a “fat suit” just to really convey the character in 1992’s Batman Returns.
In a conversation with ComicBook.com, Lord Taylor teased the character’s final arc on Gotham, which will see its last season:
“He’s in the best place he’s ever been, the second Jeremiah blows the bridges Gotham is shut off from the rest of the world,” Taylor said. “There’s a huge power vacuum, someone needs to step in and control, and as messed up as it is Penguin is one of the most qualified people to do that having been Mayor of Gotham as successfully, unsuccessfully- I’ll leave it up to the viewers to decide but that’s an amazing opportunity for him to rebuild the power structure in Gotham city in his own image the way he wants it to be done.
“Unfortunately that puts him right up against Jim Gordon, classically, as we’ve always sort of had going since the beginning is that dynamic between Penguin and Jim and so both of them trying to rest control- and also not just from each other but from the rest of these rogues galleries of everyone controlling their territories. It’s forcing all of these characters to have to deal each other and come to the table regardless of past grievances.”
We’ll have to see what is really next for Oswald Copplepot, but whatever it is, we know we’ll see some great acting, as we’ve seen all along from Lord Taylor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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