¡¡¡Nuevo proyecto de la FOX sobre GOTHAM!!!

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- GOTHAM | "Dr. Leslie Thompkins" Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B7oYSxi3Xk

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- Primer vistazo a Milo Ventimiglia como "The Ogre":



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(thanks to @TVGuide)

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- GOTHAM 1.19 "Beasts of Prey" Promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYOE-xGO3BE



- GOTHAM "Enigma " Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo-Nr4bsMo





- GOTHAM 1.19 "Beasts of Prey" Stills:

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- Descripción oficial del 1.20 "Under the knife":

1.20 "Under the knife" (20 Abril 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT): LA CAZA DE THE OGRE CONTINÚA - Gordon Y Bullock continúan investifgando a the Ogre (la estrella invitada Milo Ventimiglia), quien empieza a hacer su movimiento en alguien cercano a Gordon. Mientras tanto, Bruce y Selina se unen para exponer a un empleado corrupto de Wayne Enterprises y Nygma sale en defensa de Kristin Kringle. Estrellas invitadas: Morena Baccarin como la 'Dra. Leslie Thompkins'; Milo Ventimiglia como 'Jason Lennon'; Drew Powell como 'Butch Gilzean'; David Zayas como 'Don Maroni'; Chelsea Spack como 'Kristin Kringle'; Carol Kane como 'Gertrud Kapelput'; Clark Carmichael como 'Connor'; Laurence Mason como el 'Det. Ben Mueller'; Zachary Spicer como 'Tom Dougherty', Michael McCormick como el 'Doctor Darren Cushman'; Daniel Davis como 'Jacob Skolimski', Michael Potts como 'Sid Bunderslaw'.


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GOTHAM | Robin Lord Taylor: Adjust The Temperature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbbcRAO6VBo

GOTHAM | Robin Lord Taylor: Adjust The Temperature #2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be4S4cz12ms

GOTHAM | Jada Pinkett Smith: Purify Tap Water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTfDXarc4Y

GOTHAM | Ben McKenzie: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15Lplzqfe8

GOTHAM | Donal Logue: Use Cloth Instead Of Paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BarDKHGAk

GOTHAM | Jada Pinkett Smith: Carpool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6SOhSOPnxA

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"WONDER CON", Anaheim (04-04-15)

- Info y Entrevistas:

WonderCon: productor de Gotham adelanta historias de la Season 2 y nuevos villanos:

El elenco y equipo de “Gotham” asistieron este fin de semana a la WonderCon donde hubo un panel en el que ofrecieron algunos adelantos de la próxima temporada que se emitirá este otoño.

El productor John Stephens reveló dos historias potenciales para la S2, que incluirían el “emerger del millonario Bruce Wayne” y la exploración del personaje de “Jerome,” quien fue apuntado anteriormente como un potencial candidato para convertirse en The Joker. Además, Stephens reveló que aparecerán dos nuevos villanos: Clayface y The Mad Hatter.

Además de ésto, Laura Prudom de Variety también mencionó en twitter que otro personaje que fue anteriormente apuntado, Victor Fries AKA Mr. Freeze, aparecerá también en la S2 y que “están cerca” de traer a otro favorito de los fans, la Court of Owls, pero “que no se han comprometido aún.”


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El elenco de GOTHAM habla sobre el caos que llega en la season finale en el WonderCon (collider):

El elenco de GOTHAM habla sobre el caos que llega en la season finale en el WonderCon
Por Christina Radish 05 Abril, 2015

Like any series in its first season, the Fox series Gotham has experimented and tried to find its sweet spot, undoubtedly having some growing pains along the way. But the key to its success will be the fact that not only the actors, but those behind the scenes as well, are paying attention, taking note and adapting.

While at WonderCon to talk about where they still have to go before the season is over, actors Ben McKenzie (“Detective Jim Gordon”), Robin Lord Taylor (“Oswald Cobblepot” / “The Penguin”) and Cory Michael Smith (“Edward Nygma”) were joined by executive producer John Stephens to talk about the upcoming three-episode arc with a serial killer called the Ogre, how not everybody will live through the finale, that the Penguin’s end goal is to be his own boss, that Edward Nygma will get darker and much more horrifying, the changes that were made to the season when the extra six episodes were ordered, arcing out all 22 episodes for Season 2, moving the focus away from the procedural and more towards villains from the mythology in multi-episode arcs, and the introduction of Lucius Fox. From those interviews, we’ve compiled 16 things you should know about Gotham.

According to EP John Stephens, when it comes to the various villains, they add characters by instinct and try to balance everything out. If one character has been focused on for a couple episodes, they’ll go to an arc of someone else. If they do a Falcone-Maroni mob story for two episodes, then they’ll focus on a super-villain story and do a Jonathan Crane or Red Hood episode.

There will be a three-episode arc for Episodes 19 through 21, where Gordon investigates a serial killer that will impact him in a personal way and have repercussions through Season 2. The Ogre (played by Milo Ventimiglia) is a serial killer who seduces, tortures and kills women, and also targets any loved one of a cop that comes after him. Jim Gordon has to take on the case, knowing he will pay the price for that and that it will have some dire consequences.

When asked about his reaction to reading the season finale script, Ben McKenzie said, “I was shocked at how far we went. It’s just jammed. The finale is almost chaos. Not everybody lives. Many people do not emerge, even if they do live, whole from the experience. There are guns blazin’. It’s crazy!”

About the final episodes this season, Stephens said, “This season has been the rise of the Penguin, and that will come to a bloody and dark conclusion in the finale, as we see all of his plans and machinations erupt and start to rip Gotham apart.” You will also see other characters, like Selina Kyle, Edward Nygma and Bruce Wayne, come forward and take the evolutionary steps towards becoming the people that we all know they will turn into.

The Machiavellian moves that Jim Gordon is now capable of is a real evolution for him. At the beginning of the season, he was so moral that he was naive, and now he’s learned to play ball, which is going to continue. In regard to whether or not Gordon feels the ends justify the means, McKenzie said, “He’s getting dangerously close. I wouldn’t say he’s there yet. The ends justify is the end point of the journey. The journey is each step down the spiral staircase to hell.”

When asked what to expect from The Penguin in the final episodes of this season, Robin Lord Taylor said, “He’s gradually, bit by bit, been asserting himself as his own man. His end goal is to not have to answer to anybody, and to be his own boss. What we’re going to see in the final four [episodes] is the final push. He sets some things in motion that affect everyone in the show. It really is his final assertion to being his own boss and to being his own man. It’s crazy!”

Taylor loves playing the scenes between Oswald Cobblepot and Edward Nygma because they’re both so strange and coming at it from such different directions, but there’s electricity there.

After getting shot done by his love interest, Edward Nygma gets very frustrated and it leads to darker things. “The man inside is quite horrifying, really,” said Cory Michael Smith. “He tries. There’s so much effort. Underneath that, what’s behind that is a pretty hurt guy.”

You’ll spend some time with Edward Nygma, alone in a room with no one else there, and it’s not a pretty place. You’ll hear his actual thoughts and see a human being fighting with himself, the good and evil. Both sides of his conscious are having a conversation, talking through an issue.

To tell the origin stories of these characters, they’ve taken steps even further back. For example, for the Jonathan Crane origin story, they focused on the father, instead of Crane, himself, or for Red Hood, they just went further back than what would have been expected.

In regard to whether Jada Pinkett Smith could return to the show, even though she’s said she’s done at the end of the season, Stephens said, “I don’t know if she’s going to come back or not. I feel like you guys have to watch the finale and see what happens. This is a world where characters can come back, frequently.”

Some of the characters everyone expects to survive will not survive. They are not invulnerable, and that makes things exciting. Nobody is safe. That name could just get invented, later on, in another fashion.

As far as major locations from the Batman lore, there are some that we’ll see this season. It will be connected to the big character steps forward.

About the additional episode order, Stephens said, “We originally thought we were doing 16 episodes, so we had arced out the season to end at 16 episodes and we had to start building things out again. We actually weren’t going to do Johnathan Crane, this year. We built in Fish getting kidnapped by the Dollmaker storyline. That had not existed before. We weren’t going to do a Red Hood story. We had not planned on doing The Flying Graysons. We brought in some of the characters that we were actually planning on saving for later. But the early pick-up has affected our stories. We’re arcing the whole 22 episodes, so that we know where we’re going and where we’re ending up. Hopefully, it will feel a little less panicked.”

When asked how he felt about completing Season 1, McKenzie said that it’s been a real education for everyone involved. When they looked at what was working and what wasn’t working, he said, “From a super macro level, we made the mistake, early on, of becoming too procedural in our storylines. The pilot wasn’t, but then, all of a sudden, we became a little more weighted in that direction, and I just don’t think it worked. We also weren’t using as many characters from the mythology as we should have. We had villains-of-the-week, but they weren’t from the Batman universe. We’re not going to do that anymore. We’re focused on unspooling villains in multi-episode arcs, the vast majority will be from the mythology, and they will interact with each other. I think that’s a much deeper and more satisfying experience for the fans.”

Lucius Fox, played by Chris Chalk, will be introduced with a small appearance this year, and then will have a much larger role next season. As Bruce investigates what is going on with his family’s company, that mystery will deepen next season, and Lucius will play a role. Bruce doesn’t know what he his yet or what his intentions are, as they find their way towards a relationship next season


http://collider.com/gotham-season-finale-details/

WC 2015: El elenco de GOTHAM habla sobre los villanos y el futuro de la serie (Newsarama):

WC 2015: El elenco de GOTHAM habla sobre los villanos y el futuro de la serie
Por Jake Baumgart 06 Abril 2015 02:36 PM ET

Saturday at WonderCon in Anaheim, Californiz, Fox hosted a panel for its series Gotham and gave those in attendance a rare live Q&A with cast and crew, as well as a advance look at scenes from upcoming episodes.

It all begins as the lights dim and there is a thunderous boom in the arena as a sizzle reel of every major event in Gotham up to now. Then they show the first seven minutes of the new episode due April 13. Damian Holbrook takes the stage as moderator.

Executive Producer John Stevens is first to the stage. He is followed Ben McKenzie (Jim Gordon), Robin Lord Taylor (Oswald Cobblepot), and Cory Michael Smith (Edward Nygma).

Holbrook breaks the ice and points out that this is the first west coast panel dedicated to Gotham. He follows up by asking the actors when they realized that Gotham was connecting with fans. McKenzie says a guy stopped him on New York City street and just yelled “Hey- you’re on a TV show." Taylor says when people try to take ‘creeper’ shots of him on the subway with their cell phones.

Holbrook follows up by laying the groundwork for the panel. He asks how this show came about. McKenzie replies and says Bruno Heller conceived the idea and approached Peter Roth at Warner Bros that he wanted to do an origin story for Batman that surrounded around a young James Gordon. Heller put together a team that built the world of Gotham. After that, McKenzie and Logue signed on and it just snowballed. Heller actually wrote the role with Ben McKenzie in mind. Heller wrote another pilot with McKenzie in mind as the lead before Gotham but it never went to pilot. McKenzie goes on to talk about watching all the origin stories for Batman and how it is imbued with mythology.

Smith acts like he only had a vague idea of what he was going in for when he auditioned. Taylor says he was given blind sides in the audition, which didn’t have any details on the show; it was just the Untitled WB Project. His agent called and said that he was auditioning for Penguin on Gotham but that didn’t affect any of his acting choices. He jokes that he went in for any job because it was all about the health insurance. Smith says that he knew it was Edward Nygma before going in. He says he was called Ned and there were not a lot of details in the sides.

Holbrook asks Ben about how they changed Jim Gordon. McKenzie points out how Bruno Heller put young Jim on the case of the Wayne’s murder to bring him into contact with Bruce earlier. He does this to show how “Jim mentors a young Batman while trying to maintain order in a city that’s falling apart."

Holbrook asks Robin Lord Taylor who Oswald is based on. Holbrook insists that it’s someone real. Taylor charmingly stutters at the acquisition and says he learned that Penguin was a bullied kid, discounted and treated badly. Taylor knows what that feels like, to a degree, and tapped into that to make him more human. “That’s the core of Penguin,” Taylor says.

Holbrook agrees and says that Cory Michael Smith does the same thing: you add a sympathetic humanity. Smith jokes that Jim Gordon is at fault for the Riddler becoming a villain - for not thanking him once! McKenzie says that what’s great about the show is that you root for the villains too. “You want them to succeed and you want to root for Gordon too."

Holbrook asks when Nygma will hit his tipping point. Smith replies that a lot of exciting stuff is coming up and you get to see a lot more coming up in the later episodes. “He is a light guy and enjoys people. But when he reaches a crisis you get to see colors of this person that you haven’t seen this entire season."

Holbrook asks the actors how much research they did and if DC Comics hooked them up with free stuff. Smith says at first they didn’t and then as soon as he asked, DC Comics sent a giant box full of stuff. McKenzie said he actually had lunch with Geoff Johns. Johns said you have to make the character up. “As an actor, you are supposed to interrupt anew." The actors all confirm that they have DC’s full support.

Holbrook holds up the Jim Gordon action figure from DC Comics Designer Series and points out how McKenzie will have to turn into that someday. McKenzie says that this Jim isn’t a boy scout. He jokes that he still wears the wife-beater from The OC, “and I have evolved past The OC,” he jokes. McKenzie finishes, “I get to eat my way into that role but I will have to earn the mustache."

Holbrook points out that even with everything that has happened to Gordon, the character has had two girlfriends and he never leaves work. McKenzie quips “he is still a man."

Holbrook brings up that the audience has finally gotten to see Taylor and Smith together on screen. Stevens points out how there is electricity when they are together on screen. Penguin becomes the Alpha for the first time when Riddler is around. Oswald does not like how much the Riddler knows about him. Taylor adds that “It was a page long scene but it was a lot of fun." Smith chimes in, “we have become fans of each other."

Holbrook asks who on the cast is the most likely to crack up and the panel all agrees that it’s Donald Logue.

Holbrook asks the panel what they thought when Jada Pinkett Smith signed on to the show. Taylor said that Jada is by far the most poised, famous, actor he has ever worked intimately with. “From day one she was so down to earth. Ready to go. No ego at all. Hugs and everything,” he said.

Holbrook jokingly point out that Pinkett Smith has a weird sexual chemistry with everyone on the show. He asks the panel how bad it will be when Fish Mooney gets back Gotham and almost in unison the panel replies, “really really bad”. Taylor says, “It gets intense. My favorite thing about Oswald and Fish is that he still respects her and owes her so much. It’s a complicated dynamic. It’s fraught when they meet and dramatic.”

Smith says, “I would like to see what my interaction is with Bruce Wayne- that’s an interesting piece of mythology."

Holbrook asks McKenzie about the younger actors. McKenzie says that they are some of nicest people. “Just good kids with good parents. Great actors. They listen. There is a great dynamic.” He says, in Gotham, the adults are all screwed but there is hope in the children. “It shows the stakes of the series." Taylor jokes that Ivy freaks them all out. “[Clare Foley] made cookies and everyone was wary of them."

Holbrook asks if the audience can get a couple of hints for what will be on the show in season two. Stevens relents that there are a lot of characters like Mister Freeze that that can play that line of reality before being a villain. “We know where they are headed but having sign posts along the way that will signal we are getting closer to where they end up”. He adds that Jarvis Tetch, the Mad Hatter, is another possibility.

Holbrook asks how have the fans been today on the convention floor. Smith says that no one recognizes him, which is accompanied by pity moans from the audience. “I wore glasses out once and it was a very different experience.”

Taylor says he hasn’t been out today but everyone recognizes him all the time. “Oswald looks like he crawled out of toilet but everyone recognizes me!”

Holbrook asks what the geekiest thing they like is. Taylor, perplexed, says Calvin and Hobbes. “That was my jam.” Smith jokes back, “I can’t believe you got bullied in high school.”

The Q&A session starts. The first question comes from a young kid dressed like Bruce Wayne. He asks how it feels to play such a cool, yet creepy, character. Smith says, with a wink that “I don’t think he is creepy at all.”.He then goes on to say, “It’s great. I think all of us have an inner creep that we don’t get to let out so it’s like therapy."

The next question was about what the actors like about their characters. McKenzie says Gordon’s moral center. “I wish I had it at that depth."

Taylor says he likes Oswald’s ambition. Smith says that it’s been fun to indulge in Edward’s enthusiasm. “People find it odd, but it’s the thing that he uses to terrorize Gotham.”

The next question was for John Stevens on what the audience can expect from Bruce Wayne. Stevens says that Bruce has a duality. There is the Bruce and Batman. “In season two, we will see the public face of who Bruce Wayne is as the playboy. David will like playing two different people."

The next questioner points out Penguin’s high body count and asks where is he hiding the bodies. John laughs, “He kills a lot of people and Bruno says he puts them in the river!”

Another audience member takes the mic and asks if they kept the non-fans in mind when making the show. Steven replies, “Absolutely. We want people to engage who have never heard of Batman but we want to carry on the torch.”

The next question is if there will more B-villains on the show. Stevens says that Clayface and The Mad Hatter will be brought into the show. “Both have great back stories and exploring the origins is a lot of fun.” Holbrook follows up, asking if there will be other DCU characters on the show, to which Stevens replies a flat "no."

The next attendee asks if Batman will be showing up. John says, “We will see Bruce’s development and all of the different elements but we will never see him in the cape and cowl. You see him grow but not put on the outfit.”

Another member of the audience asks what it's like to set up for role. McKenzie says they were all nervous. “They are iconic characters and the fans are passionate- we didn't want to screw them up. The further we get the more relaxed we get.” Taylor adds that the scripts are amazing and the characters have their own language. “Personally I have spent a lot of time in makeup and it helps me physically make Oswald.” Smith adds that it is super helpful reading the comics. “We were given the allowance to make big choices. I realized how different the characters are each decade. Riddler has been a showman and terrorizing. Choose to make someone that is capable of both things”.

The last question of the afternoon is for John Stevens. The audience member asks that since there are so many eras and various technologies in the show, what the exact time period is. John Stevens replies that Danny Cannon created a world that was timeless. “It goes back to world creation. We can push reality in different ways. We want it to feel real. The performances are so emotionally grounded and it makes the world feel more real.”

Holbrook reminds the audience they can catch the next Gotham episode Monday, April 13, 2015, and the panel is met with uproarious applause.


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- WC15: Cory Michael de "Gotham's" adelanta las respuestas sobre el futuro del 'Enigma' de Nygma (cbr):

WC15: Cory Michael de "Gotham's" adelanta las respuestas sobre el futuro del 'Enigma' de Nygma
Por Scott Huver, 08 Abril, 2015

The riddle of just who "Gotham's" brilliant but socially awkward Edward Nygma will become is about to be solved.

As the show begins to close out its freshman season, the enthusiastic but frequently frustrated forensic scientist on the Fox series is poised to take bigger steps toward the future that, despite his good intentions, seems inevitable: his transformation in the Gotham City's cryptographic crime-lord, The Riddler.

Cory Michael Smith, one of the show's biggest breakout stars, made the trek to WonderCon for a press roundtable where he revealed to CBR News and other outlets just what looms ahead for the underappreciated, if unorthodox, genius. And will the enigmatic Nygma make the transition from GCPD employee to villain in Season 2? Read on to find out...

Ed Nygma seems to be much more stable and his social skills are getting much better.

Cory Michael Smith: Yeah? Glad you're thinking so [Laughs].

Give us a sense of what's ahead for him.

We've ended in [Episode] 18 where he finally -- he's taking bigger challenges, getting a little more brave. He finally goes up to Kristen [Kringle] and actually asks her on a date rather than just giving her cupcakes and bullets and stuff. So he's really reaching out. That's a big deal. It's a really big deal, and he totally gets shot down. And I asked the director -- I'm like, "Look. We've been following this little love interest for a while now. At a certain point, this is just really frustrating, really frustrating." I've been nothing but kind to her and enthusiastic and shown her exactly how I feel. And to get just shut down because there's another guy already, it's frustrating.

So that's a moment, a flash of very much darker things that Edward has inside that we will unlock the door to and take a peek at. It's quite horrifying, really, the man inside. I think the veneer of trying... he tries. There's so much effort. And underneath that, what's behind that is, he's a pretty hurt guy that he doesn't really let show. And then the last few episodes, you'll spend some time alone with Edward in a room with no one else there. God help America and Canada and France and everyone! It's not a pretty place up here.

Is it challenging to play a character who's on such a slow burn?

It's been challenging to my patience. The fans are so attracted to the mischief in this character, the terrorizing that he does to Gotham. And we all just like want to do it! And feel it's exciting. And this character just has this ability to be like massively ornery. And so that is to come. But before that, we had to create a world where this good guy is really the only villain we've let be entirely good at the beginning. We have to earn that. And it takes time for this person to be constantly shut down by everybody that he comes into contact with to really create a human being that would respond the way that he needs to become the man that he's going to become. So I feel like it's been a well thought out and appropriate arc and kind of drops a little bit here end of season one. It gets exciting.

Is there any character that you think could break him out of any kind of future drama?

Oh, sure. I mean, they could. If James wanted to embrace how helpful Ed has been. No one talks about him, but Ed has really solved like three or four of the crimes. Has anyone ever thanked him for giving them the golden egg that like solves the puzzle? No! It's ridiculous. If people would honor him the way that other people celebrate when things are solved, things might be different.

Or anyone want to promote him? The medical examiner's gone [Laughs]. Got rid of him. But then they brought in someone else. Maybe he's not a doctor but perhaps more equipped to like do some of these examinations on other people. So no, he's just not getting any love whatsoever.

Do you think he could change if people gave him the proper recognition?

Yeah, absolutely. I would like to think that a lot of people in this world who have done really terrible things, there's a reason. I think events are avoidable, potentially. People are the response to their environment, response to the way they're treated, so that's kind of just how we're building Ed. It's fun to have a hero and a villain. To understand why those people have donned those roles, for me, as an actor and being interested in psychology, that's more exciting.

That terror when he's alone in the room: are we seeing him talk to himself or actual thoughts?

Yeah, you'll hear his actual thoughts. It's funny how this was all timing out as we were filming this, but I don't know if any of you watched ["The Jinx"], the Robert Durst documentary that Andrew Jarecki was doing on HBO, but the final episode of that he's in a bathroom talking to himself. And that aired right before we filmed me being alone in a room talking to myself, and I was reminded that it's not just a way to tell a story verbally so that the audience knows what you're thinking: it's like, people actually do this.

When you're alone, you actually talk to yourself. I mean I do, [laughter] but... you know, I don't know that anyone else does. But some people talk to themselves, and you essentially see that. And you get to see a human being fighting with himself, the good and evil, like both sides of his conscience are having a conversation. Walking through an issue -- or stomping. Stomping might be a more appropriate word. It's exciting.


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El productor John Stephens nor revela más detalles de la S2 sobre 'Hugo Strange', 'The Joker' y 'Arkham Asylum' (IGN):

El productor John Stephens nor revela más detalles de la S2 sobre 'Hugo Strange', 'The Joker' y 'Arkham Asylum'
Por IGN 04 Abril, 2015

When speaking with IGN at WonderCon 2015, Gotham executive producer John Stephens shed some light on who and what we can expect to see in the second season and the few remaining episodes of the current season. We know that the show is about to introduce a serial killer called the Ogre in next week's episode and it seems his role is a bit more important than we initially thought. According to Stephens: "There are major stories that are going to hit Jim [Gordon] at the end of the season. One involves him chasing down this serial killer that Milo Ventimiglia is playing that is going to have a crushing impact on him personally that's going to revert around all next year."

Hmm. We've previously seen in the promos that the Ogre will come into contact with Barbara Kean and it was teased in a recent featurette that Lesley Tompkins could also be on the Ogre's radar. Perhaps one of these women will be horribly injured? Worse? Only time will tell.

Despite being heavily teased at the beginning of the series, the Arkham Project storyline hasn't seemed to have moved forward in a while and has barley been referenced at all in recent episodes. There also doesn't seem to be any sign of previously confirmed villains Hugo Strange and Mr. Freeze. We now know when to expect these characters and arcs:

"Hugo Strange will show up and we're going to see much more Arkham Asylum next year. On of the things we've done this year is introduce a lot of villains and so a lot of these villains ended up going to Arkham this season. Though we didn't see it happen, we will find him next year in Arkham and Arkham will become much more of a player in our world." Hugo Strange has not yet been casted, according to Stephens. "The conception of the character, I feel like [the actor] would be younger than the idea of the Hugo Strange that we all know. He's probably not bald. Think of the Hugo Strange from the comic and age him back 15 to 20 years."

Is Jerome Valeska the Joker? While we still don't know for certain, Stephens promises us that the Joker storyline will "continue to develop" and that they are currently "breaking the storyline that involves that." He continues to say that he "feels like the storyline is going to be broken down will be very exciting and satisfying without breaking any sort of canon lore that we are trying to respect at the same time." Lets hope so, as they are only dealing with the first live action incarnation of the Joker since HEATH LEDGER.

As the interview continues, Stephens informs us a little about their version of Mr. Freeze. "The Victor Fries character is a story of a character that we are going to build out. If you look at the pantheon of the Batman villains, with some of these villains, especially ones that involve science, there are ways to tell them in sort of realistic and grounded ways that don't cross out world where your in Man-Bat territory." Despite this comment, Stephens goes on to warn us not to expect Man-Bat anytime soon, joking that they are saving him for the Man-Bat centric thirteenth season of the show.

Gotham returns with brand new episodes this Monday. Only four episodes of the season remain, starting with "Beasts of Prey."

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WonderCon 2015: Ben McKenzie Talks Jim Gordon and Gotham (TV Goodness)

WonderCon 2015: EP John Stephens Talks the Rest of Gotham Season 1 (TV Goodness)

WonderCon 2015: Robin Lord Taylor Talks the Penguin and FOX's Gotham (TV Goodness)

WonderCon 2015: Gotham's Cory Michael Smith Talks Edward Nygma (TV Goodness)

THE PENGUIN! Interview with Robin Lord Taylor of Gotham (ksitetv)

The Riddler of Gotham: Cory Michael Smith Interview (ksitetv)

Gotham: Ben McKenzie Wondercon Interview (ksitetv)

GOTHAM: John Stephens teases the end of season 1 (GiveMeMyRemoteTV)

GOTHAM: Ben McKenzie teases the Ogre, the end of season 1 (GiveMeMyRemoteTV)

GOTHAM: Robin Lord Taylor teases the Penguin's ascension (GiveMeMyRemoteTV)

GOTHAM: Cory Michael Smith teases the end of season 1 (GiveMeMyRemoteTV)

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- Gotham: Milo Ventimiglia habla sobre la conexión entre The Ogre-Barbara (ksitetv):

Gotham: Milo Ventimiglia habla sobre la conexión entre The Ogre-Barbara
Por Craig Byrne 08 Abril, 2015

Milo Ventimiglia comes to Gotham as Jason Lennon, "The Ogre," starting with the Monday, April 13 episode, and promotional trailers and photos for the episode have teased a connection or scenes between his character and Barbara Kean, who is played on the show by Erin Richards.

Ventimiglia participated in a press call this morning, where he described his character as "smooth and charming" at times before flipping on a dime and being "evil, evil, evil."

So what is going on between those two?

"He picks a girl up at a bar, and you see what happens," he says about the Ogre's M.O.. "But if you look at who the Ogre is and what his motives are… he's looking for unconditional love with a woman, but also when the detectives are investigating him, he chose someone close to them. So you have to ask yourself 'who is possibly close to Jim Gordon?' and what that would probably entail," he teases.


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- Ben McKenzie nos avisa que esperan días oscuros para Jim Gordon (cbr):

Ben McKenzie nos avisa que esperan días oscuros para Jim Gordon
Por Bryan Cairns, 09 Abril 2015

On Fox's pre-Batman drama "Gotham," Gotham City has become a breeding ground for power-hungry, deranged and corrupt individuals. So far, Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) has contended with the likes of Oswald Cobblepot, Fish Mooney, Carmine Falcone, Victor Zsasz, Jack Gruber, Dr. Crane and Jerome. When Gordon begins to investigate serial killer Jason Lennon, nicknamed the Ogre, things hit a little too close to home. Could someone Jim loves become the Ogre's next target?

During a conference call to promote "Beasts of Prey," the new episode of "Gotham" airing Monday April 13, McKenzie spoke about the upcoming Ogre arc guest-starring Milo Ventimiglia, Jim's struggle to do what is right, Harvey Bullock's influence on him and his bond with Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz). In addition, McKenzie assessed Season One and teased how the finale will change Gotham City forever.

Can you talk about Jim Gordon's relationship with his partner Harvey Bullock? How has Bullock influenced the way Jim acts and who he is becoming as a person?

Ben McKenzie: Overall, perhaps the best word I can use to describe the evolution of their relationship is maturation. It's been kind of a maturation process. Initially, Jim and Harvey were polar opposites. Jim is the wet-behind-the-ears, almost rookie cop. Harvey is the jaded, cynical veteran. As the season progresses, they learn from each other. Harvey is inspired a bit by Jim's do-gooderism. But, Jim is also educated in the ways of Gotham and becomes more sophisticated in the ways that he approaches cases and the way that he uses the power that he gains in relationships, say with Oswald Cobblepot [Robin Lord Taylor], in order to get what he wants. So, there's give and take.

In the last episode we saw on screen ["Everyone Has a Cobblepot"], Harvey betrayed Jim by testifying against him in the case of Arnold Flass [Dash Mihok] and getting the case dismissed. He did that because Commissioner Loeb [Peter Scolari] had evidence on Harvey. He had dirt on him. Harvey and Jim team up to find that stash of evidence, only to find Loeb's daughter, who is mentally handicapped. Jim then ends up using the existence of that daughter against Loeb to get what he wants.

You're seeing a real evolution in Jim's character in that he is not afraid to do something that's morally or ethically borderline, if not over the line, in order to get what he wants, get what he needs, and to serve the greater good. He's doing it in part for Harvey and he gives Harvey back the dirt, so Harvey is in the clear. However, they are in a détente as we leave the last episode.

Do you think Jim is consciously aware of how close he is to that line? Is that a decision he makes or is he being sucked in?

I think he's being sucked in. He's aware on some level, but the overwhelming nature of Gotham tends to beat you down. Even if you are aware on some level of what's going on, you are really focused on what's right ahead of you. You can't really see the full picture. You're just in it. So, I think he's a little unaware.

Can you introduce us to the Ogre and how he really puts Gordon to the test beginning in the upcoming episode, "Beasts of Prey?"

The Ogre is a serial killer who seduces, kidnaps, tortures and kills women in the never-ending pursuit for a partner. He finds these women and let's just say they don't meet to his exacting standards. He's a true psychopath. He's remained at large for years because he protects himself. Any cop who takes on his case, the Ogre targets the loved ones of that cop. The cop will end up with his wife's throat cut, his girlfriend dead and things like that. So, no cop touches it. It's basically become a dirty little secret of the GCPD.

Jim, when he ends up in contact with the case, and he ends up with it in an interesting way, he's a hero and can't put it down. For him, not to pursue the case would be to have the blood of future victims on his hands. So, he's put in a perilous position where he knows that the women in his life could be targets. It creates a strain in his relationship with Tompkins [Morena Baccarin]. It will have dire consequences moving forward.

How do these episodes and the finale propel Gordon into Season Two?

The arc takes us down an incredibly dark path, probably the darkest of the season. Then, after a three-episode arc involving the Ogre, there is an epic season finale that really pushes us strongly into a Season Two that is extremely chaotic. The best way I can describe it without giving too much away is you are really starting to see the downward spiral of Gotham as a city, toward the ultimate anarchy that will manifest and result in all these masked vigilantes roaming the streets. You're at the tipping point in the season finale and I think it's going to take us into Season Two with a literal bang.

Jim's relationship with Bruce Wayne is like this young surrogate father-and-son dynamic. Can you talk about them in these four final episodes and where this partnership is going?

The core relationship of the show, in many ways, is the relationship between Jim and Bruce. That's how we kicked off the pilot and that's the central conceit in this conception of the story that we all know. The central change is to put a rookie detective in contact with Bruce Wayne at 13, at the scene of his parent's murder, and to task our hero. In the story, Jim Gordon was solving the case. That's the emotional undercurrent of the entire series. Right now, their relationship is a bit on rocky ground.

Jim has been unable to solve the case, obviously. Bruce is frustrated by that. He's been investigating the case. And Alfred [Sean Pertwee] has been injured. Jim goes to console Bruce and basically realizes they are both lying to him. They refuse to reveal what's going on and what's happening. At this point, it's very complicated. While Bruce and Jim have a bond of sorts, Bruce is a little distrustful of the detective and he's hiding secrets from him already, a trend which will only continue. Ultimately, it results in Bruce trying to hide the biggest secret.

It's an interesting relationship. It's a mentor/mentoree. It's a surrogate father/son. There's also peer-to-peer because Bruce is so otherworldly intelligent. It's quite interesting and it's a joy to work with David [Mazouz]. I think as we go forward in the series, the bond will grow stronger. At the same time, they will keep more and more secrets from each other.

Jim Gordon has always possessed a certain hope and optimism. In the "Gotham" version of the character, what is it that keeps him holding on to that light? What is it that keeps him going and not completely falling into that path of darkness?

It isn't even a person in his life. I think it's a core value that simply springs from his genetic makeup. Particularly in this conception, he is a true believer and a soldier. He's a veteran coming back from the front to take care of the enemy at home. He believes very sincerely in that cause. The evolution of the character will be from a true believer believing that he can fix everything by doing everything correctly, into a veteran who understands how to get things done and how to serve the greater good. To get a good outcome, perhaps you have to do a bad thing. It's something he will be struggling with throughout the entire series, keeping his morals roughly intact, while working his way up the food chain in Gotham. It's an interesting journey.

You knew going into "Gotham" that it was going to be a Batman show based in the past, with no Batman. With the first season almost over, have things gone as you anticipated they would in terms of the reaction to the show and its success?

I think the thing that's true of all first-year shows, at least every first year show that I've ever been on -- and I've done three now -- is it's impossible to predict almost anything in terms of the reaction to the show by the public at large, but also the evolution of the show itself. This show in particular has had an interesting first year. I'm very proud of it. I've grown a lot. I believe in the first year. I think we've learned from some mistakes that we made in the first year.

After we made what I consider a very strong pilot, we ended up on a detour where we became a little too procedural. We became a little too focused on the crime of the week and we were using villains that were not really from the mythology. That did a disservice to the mythology that we were trying to serve, and to the fans. We've adjusted. We've introduced villains with multi-episode arcs. They are from the mythology by-and-large and the grandeur of Gotham is more fully exposed. We're learning as you learn on the first year of a show. You can only learn by making mistakes and correcting them.

As far as the reaction to the show, it's been incredible. I honestly expected a little more flak. Any time you enter into a universe that is beloved, people have strong opinions. By and large, it's been incredibly positive. Obviously, the show is a hit and watched all over the world. I know that we can do better and will continue to do better in Season Two in terms of the stories we're telling and how we tell them. But, I'm very proud of the show. So far, so good. I'm particularly relieved that the primary criticism of the show -- a Batman show without a Batman -- at this point, I believe has been shown to be a misunderstood complaint. If one is really a fan of Batman and the world of Batman, I would think discovering how Batman came to be and how the villains came to be, is fascinating to me. At this point, we dodged that bullet for the most part, but need to live up to the expectations of the fans.



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- Ben McKenzie habla sobre las relaciones de Gordon, el camino entre el bien y el mal y adelanta el final de la S1 (TVOvermind):

Ben McKenzie habla sobre las relaciones de Gordon, el camino entre el bien y el mal y adelanta el final de la S1
Por Andy 10 Abril, 2015

This coming Monday (April 13), FOX’s hit series Gotham returns, continuing to tell the story of the legendary characters in the Batman mythology as we follow the journey of Detective Jim Gordon through the early years of his career and witness the origins of some of the most iconic villains in the DC Universe. This week, TVOvermind joined several other news outlets in a conference call with the future commissioner himself, Ben McKenzie, as he teases what is coming up in the final four episodes of the first season and more.

Be aware of potential spoilers from the conference call which has been edited for time and content.

Although there are many different components to Gotham, the primary focus of the show has been watching Jim Gordon grow as a detective, as his relationship with his partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) has developed over the course of the first season. While people could look at the pair’s partnership in numerous ways, McKenzie has one word that he thinks sums it up.

“I would say, overall, perhaps the best word I can use to describe the evolution of their relationship is maturation,” McKenzie says about Jim and Harvey. “It’s been kind of a maturation process. Initially, Jim and Harvey were polar opposites. Jim is the wet behind the ears, almost naive rookie cop, and Harvey is the jaded, cynical veteran. As the season progresses, they learn from each other. Harvey is inspired a bit by Jim’s do-gooderism, but Jim is also educated in the ways of Gotham and becomes more sophisticated in the ways that he approaches cases and the way that he uses the power that he gains through relationships with, say, Oswald Cobblepot, in order to get what he wants.”

“So, there’s give and take,” McKenzie continues. “The last episode that we saw on screen, Harvey betrayed Jim by testifying against him in the case of Arnold Flass in getting the case dismissed. He did that because Commissioner Loeb had evidence on Harvey, had dirt on him, and so Harvey and Jim team up to find that stash of evidence, only to find out that it’s basically Loeb’s daughter who’s mentally kind of handicapped. Jim then ends up using the existence of that daughter against Loeb to get what he wants. So, you’re seeing a real evolution in Jim’s character that he is not afraid to do something that’s morally or ethically borderline, if not over the line, in order to get what he wants, get what he needs for the greater good. He’s doing it in part for Harvey, and he gives Harvey back the dirt, so Harvey is in the clear, but they’re at a détente as we leave the last episode. They’re—yes, détente might be the best word.”

But is Jim really aware that he’s close to crossing a line?

“I think he’s being sucked in.” says McKenzie. “I think he is aware on some level. But I think the overwhelming nature of Gotham tends to sort of beat you down, and even if you are aware on some level of what’s going on, you really are just focused on what’s right ahead of you, and you can’t really see the full picture; you’re just in it. So, I think he’s a little unaware.”

Although Jim is certainly coming closer and closer to breaking that moral code, as he lives and works in such a corrupted and dark environment, he still possesses a strong sense of optimism and hope. But does that come from a particular person in Jim’s life that, or is it something more intrinsic?

“I think it isn’t even a person in his life, I think it is a core value that perhaps springs simply from his makeup, his almost genetic makeup,” McKenzie says regarding Jim’s positivity in the face of so much adversity. “He is, particularly in this conception, a true believer and a soldier. He’s a veteran coming back from the front to take on the enemy at home, and he believes very sincerely in that cause. The evolution of the character will be from a true believer believing that he can fix everything in the right way by doing everything correctly into a veteran who understands how to get things done, how to possibly serve the greater good. How do you get a good outcome? Perhaps you have to do a bad thing. It’s something that he will be struggling with for the entire series, keeping his morals roughly intact while working his way up the food chain in Gotham. So, an interesting journey.”

One of those things that Jim wants to “fix in the right way” is the murder of young Bruce Wayne’s (David Mazouz) parents, especially as the connection between Jim and Bruce has become one of Gotham‘s most compelling elements.

“I think the core relationship of the show in many ways is the relationship between Jim and Bruce, and that’s how we kick off the pilot, and that’s the central conceit in this conception of the story that we all know,” McKenzie says, stating how the pair’s relationship is one of the most important elements of the series. “This central change is to put a rookie detective in contact with Bruce Wayne at 13 at the scene of his parents’ murder and to task our hero in the story, Jim Gordon, with solving the case. So, that’s the emotional undercurrent of the entire series, and I think right now their relationship is a bit on rocky ground. Jim has been unable to solve the case, obviously. Bruce is frustrated by that. He’s been investigating the case, and Alfred has been injured. Jim goes to sort of console Bruce and basically realizes that they’re both lying to him. They refuse to reveal really what’s going on and what’s happening.”

But will Jim and Bruce soon move past this “rocky ground” they’re on?

“At this point, it’s very complicated,” McKenzie says. “While Bruce and Jim have a bond of sorts, they are also at this point a little—Bruce is a little distrustful of the detective. He’s hiding secrets from him already, a trend which, of course, will only continue, and ultimately it results in him trying to hide the biggest secret. It’s an interesting relationship. It’s a mentor/mentee. It’s a surrogate father/son, and there’s also peer-to-peer because Bruce is so otherworldly intelligent. It’s quite interesting, and it’s a joy to work with David. I think as we go forward in the series, the bond will grow stronger, and at the same time they’ll be keeping more and more secrets from each other. That’s the best I can probably offer.”

And speaking of Bruce Wayne, many have called Gotham “a Batman show without Batman,” as the future Dark Knight is only a teenager and not anywhere near closing to becoming the hero he will be, and with that has come some creative challenges for Gotham in its first season. However, McKenzie believes the show is continuing to grow and get better as it goes along.

“I think that the thing that’s true of all first years of shows, at least every first year of a show that I’ve ever been on, and I’ve done three now, is that it’s impossible to predict almost anything in terms of not only the reaction to the show, whether it’s the public at large, but also the evolution of the show itself,” McKenzie says. “This show, in particular, has had an interesting first year. I’m very proud of it. It’s grown a lot, I believe, in the first year, and I think we’ve learned from some mistakes that we’ve made in the first year. I think after we made what I believe is a very strong pilot, we ended up on a detour where we became a little too procedural. We became a little too focused on the crime of the week. We were using villains that weren’t really from mythology, and that did a disservice to the mythology that we were trying to serve and to the fans. We’ve adjusted. We’ve introduced villains with multi-episode arcs. They are from the mythology, by and large. A grandeur of Gotham is sort of more fully exposed. I think we’re learning, as you learn on the first year of a show.”

But despite some creative growing pains in Gotham‘s first season, McKenzie states how the fans have stuck with the show and embraced the series for what it is. Still, though, he recognizes that there are expectations when dealing with such beloved source material, and Gotham needs to meet them.

“As far as the reaction to the show, it’s been incredible,” McKenzie describes. “I honestly expected a little more flack. I think anytime you enter into a universe this beloved, people have strong opinions. By and large, it’s been incredibly positive. Obviously, the show is a hit and watched all over the world. I know that we can do better, and we’ll continue to do better in Season 2 in terms of the stories we’re telling and how we tell them, but I’m very proud of the show and so far, so good. I’m particularly relieved that the primary criticism of the show, the Batman show without Batman, at this point, I believe has been shown to be a bit of a misunderstood complaint. If one is really a fan of Batman and the world of Batman, I would think discovering how Batman came to be is a fascinating journey, discovering how all these villains came to be. So, I think at this point we’ve dodged that bullet for the most part, but we need to live up to the expectations of the fans, and we’ll try to do that.”

And as Gotham continues to move forward, with only four episodes left in its first season, there are many things for fans to look forward to, including the introduction of Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia as a new villain, The Ogre.

“The Ogre is a serial killer who seduces, kidnaps, tortures and kills women,” McKenzie teases. “In the never-ending pursuit for a partner, he finds these women, and they, let’s just say, don’t meet to his exacting standards. He’s a true psychopath, and he’s remained at large for years because he protects himself. Any cop who takes on his case, the Ogre targets the loved ones of that cop. He ends up—the cop will end up with his wife’s throat cut, his girlfriend dead, things like that. So, no cop touches it, and it’s basically just become the dirty little secret of the GCPD.”

Well, no cop touches the case, until Jim finally does, sending him on a journey that will not be easy as Gotham closes out its first season.

“Jim, when he ends up in contact with the case, and he ends up in contact with it in an interesting way, he’s a hero; he can’t put it down,” McKenzie says. “For him not to pursue the case would be to have the blood of future victims on his hands, so he’s put in a perilous position where he knows that the women in his life could be targets. It creates a strain on his relationship with Thompkins, and it will have dire consequences moving forward.”

“The arc takes us down an incredibly dark path, probably darkest of the season,” McKenzie continues, “and then after a sort of three-episode arc involving the Ogre, there is kind of an epic season finale that really pushes us strongly into a Season 2 that is extremely chaotic. The best way I can describe it without giving too much away is you’re really starting to see the downward spiral of Gotham as a city towards the ultimate anarchy that will manifest and result in all these masked vigilantes roaming the streets. You’re at the tipping point here on the season finale, and I think it’s going to kick us into Season 2 with a literal bang, almost.”



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- Ben McKenzie – Gotham (starrymag):

Ben McKenzie – Gotham
Por starrymag | 10 Abril, 2015

Q) I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about where Gordon’s relationship has gone with his partner, Harvey Bullock, this year and how Bullock’s influence on Jim is affecting the way he acts and maybe who he’s becoming as a person?

A) Good question. I would say, overall, perhaps the best word I can use to describe the evolution of their relationship is maturation. It’s been kind of a maturation process. Initially, Jim and Harvey were polar opposites. Jim is the wet behind the ears, almost naive rookie cop, and Harvey is the jaded, cynical veteran. As the season progresses, they learn from each other. Harvey is inspired a bit by Jim’s do-gooderism, but Jim is also educated in the ways of Gotham and becomes more sophisticated in the ways that he approaches cases and the way that he uses the power that he gains through relationships with, say, Oswald Cobblepot, in order to get what he wants. So, there’s give and take. The last episode that we saw on screen, Harvey betrayed Jim by testifying against him in the case of Arnold Flass in getting the case dismissed. He did that because Commissioner Loeb had evidence on Harvey, had dirt on him, and so Harvey and Jim team up to find that stash of evidence, only to find out that it’s basically Loeb’s daughter who’s mentally kind of handicapped. Jim then ends up using the existence of that daughter against Loeb to get what he wants. So, you’re seeing a real evolution in Jim’s character that he is not afraid to do something that’s morally or ethically borderline, if not over the line, in order to get what he wants, get what he needs for the greater good. He’s doing it in part for Harvey, and he gives Harvey back the dirt, so Harvey is in the clear, but they’re at a détente as we leave the last episode. They’re—yes, détente might be the best word.

Q) Is Jim really consciously aware of how close he is to that line, do you think? Is that a decision he makes, or he’s being sucked in?

A) I think he’s being sucked in. I think he is aware on some level. But I think the overwhelming nature of Gotham tends to sort of beat you down, and even if you are aware on some level of what’s going on, you really are just focused on what’s right ahead of you, and you can’t really see the full picture; you’re just in it. So, I think he’s a little unaware.

Q) Can you introduce us to the Ogre and how he really puts Gordon to the test during this arc?

A) Sure. The Ogre is a serial killer who seduces, kidnaps, tortures and kills women. In the never-ending pursuit for a partner, he finds these women, and they, let’s just say, don’t meet to his exacting standards. He’s a true psychopath, and he’s remained at large for years because he protects himself. Any cop who takes on his case, the Ogre targets the loved ones of that cop. He ends up—the cop will end up with his wife’s throat cut, his girlfriend dead, things like that. So, no cop touches it, and it’s basically just become the dirty little secret of the GCPD. Jim, when he ends up in contact with the case, and he ends up in contact with it in an interesting way, he’s a hero; he can’t put it down. For him not to pursue the case would be to have the blood of future victims on his hands, so he’s put in a perilous position where he knows that the women in his life could be targets. It creates a strain on his relationship with Thompkins, and it will have dire consequences moving forward.

Q) And just can you tease how maybe this arc and the finale kind of propels Gordon into Season 2?

A) Sure. The arc takes us down an incredibly dark path, probably darkest of the season, and then after a sort of three-episode arc involving the Ogre, there is kind of an epic season finale that really pushes us strongly into a Season 2 that is extremely chaotic. The best way I can describe it without giving too much away is you’re really starting to see the downward spiral of Gotham as a city towards the ultimate anarchy that will manifest and result in all these masked vigilantes roaming the streets. You’re at the tipping point here on the season finale, and I think it’s going to kick us into Season 2 with a literal bang, almost.

Q) I was wondering, have you started filming the second season yet?

A) No. We just ended the first season. We’ll start filming in about three months.

Q) Have you noticed any difference in the people coming up to you on the street or fans that you talk to or anything like that, the different types of people or experiences?

A) You know, not in any way that I think I would want to generalize. I think what’s interesting, we just did WonderCon [Saturday], John Stephens, one of our executive producers, myself, Robin Taylor, and Cory Michael Smith, went down and we did—we had some fan interactions, did an autograph signing and did a panel. I think one of the things that’s interesting about “geek culture” at this point or even superhero culture is that it’s so pervasive. I think it’s easy to try to sort of stereotype who folks that are into those things are, but the reality is that, again, I mean, it’s men, women, young, old. It’s the stereotypes of the introvert and the extroverts. It’s really all over the map. One of the things that’s interesting for me, having done two other shows, is you’ll sit there signing autographs for Gotham, but people will be fans of The OC or Southland or all three. So, I think it’s actually been a pleasant surprise that a “geek culture” doesn’t feel so insular. It feels like just a collection of people who happen to have that interest in addition to many other interests. I find it kind of welcome.

Q) One of the things I have loved about your version of Gordon is the relationship that he has created around him, whether it’s with Leslie or Bruce or any of these other characters. One of the things that I really love following is the relation with Bruce, that it’s kind of like this very young surrogate father-and-son dynamic. What can you talk about them in these four final episodes and where they’re going next as this, well, sort of partnership, in a way?

A) I think the core relationship of the show in many ways is the relationship between Jim and Bruce, and that’s how we kick off the pilot, and that’s the central conceit in this conception of the story that we all know. This central change is to put a rookie detective in contact with Bruce Wayne at 13 at the scene of his parents’ murder and to task our hero in the story, Jim Gordon, with solving the case. So, that’s the emotional undercurrent of the entire series, and I think right now their relationship is a bit on rocky ground. Jim has been unable to solve the case, obviously. Bruce is frustrated by that. He’s been investigating the case, and Alfred has been injured. Jim goes to sort of console Bruce and basically realizes that they’re both lying to him. They refuse to reveal really what’s going on and what’s happening. So, at this point, it’s very complicated. While Bruce and Jim have a bond of sorts, they are also at this point a little—Bruce is a little distrustful of the detective. He’s hiding secrets from him already, a trend which, of course, will only continue, and ultimately it results in him trying to hide the biggest secret. It’s an interesting relationship. It’s a mentor/mentee. It’s a surrogate father/son, and there’s also peer-to-peer because Bruce is so otherworldly intelligent. It’s quite interesting, and it’s a joy to work with David. I think as we go forward in the series, the bond will grow stronger, and at the same time they’ll be keeping more and more secrets from each other. That’s the best I can probably offer.

Q) You were talking a little bit about Gordon crossing that line of the corruption that is going on with the GCPD and so on. One of the things that I’ve always followed with Gordon in any interaction is that he seems to still always have that hope and optimism. What do you think, in this version of Gordon, what is it that keeps him still holding on to that light? Is it someone in his life that he knows that can strengthen his optimism? What is it that keeps him going and not falling completely into that path of darkness?

A) I think that’s a very accurate observation. I think it isn’t even a person in his life, I think it is a core value that perhaps springs simply from his makeup, his almost genetic makeup. He is, particularly in this conception, a true believer and a soldier. He’s a veteran coming back from the front to take on the enemy at home, and he believes very sincerely in that cause. The evolution of the character will be from a true believer believing that he can fix everything in the right way by doing everything correctly into a veteran who understands how to get things done, how to possibly serve the greater good. How do you get a good outcome? Perhaps you have to do a bad thing. It’s something that he will be struggling with for the entire series, keeping his morals roughly intact while working his way up the food chain in Gotham. So, an interesting journey.

Q) I have for you is you knew going into Gotham that Gotham was going to be a Batman show based in the past with no Batman, you as the lead actor. What I’m wondering is with the first season almost complete, have things gone as you anticipated they would in terms of the reaction to the show and its success?

A) Good question. I think that the thing that’s true of all first years of shows, at least every first year of a show that I’ve ever been on, and I’ve done three now, is that it’s impossible to predict almost anything in terms of not only the reaction to the show, whether it’s the public at large, but also the evolution of the show itself. This show, in particular, has had an interesting first year. I’m very proud of it. It’s grown a lot, I believe, in the first year, and I think we’ve learned from some mistakes that we’ve made in the first year. I think after we made what I believe is a very strong pilot, we ended up on a detour where we became a little too procedural. We became a little too focused on the crime of the week. We were using villains that weren’t really from mythology, and that did a disservice to the mythology that we were trying to serve and to the fans. We’ve adjusted. We’ve introduced villains with multi-episode arcs. They are from the mythology, by and large. A grandeur of Gotham is sort of more fully exposed. I think we’re learning, as you learn on the first year of a show. You can only really learn by making mistakes and correcting them. As far as the reaction to the show, it’s been incredible. I honestly expected a little more flack. I think anytime you enter into a universe this beloved, people have strong opinions. By and large, it’s been incredibly positive. Obviously, the show is a hit and watched all over the world. I know that we can do better, and we’ll continue to do better in Season 2 in terms of the stories we’re telling and how we tell them, but I’m very proud of the show and so far, so good. I’m particularly relieved that the primary criticism of the show, the Batman show without Batman, at this point, I believe has been shown to be a bit of a misunderstood complaint. If one is really a fan of Batman and the world of Batman, I would think discovering how Batman came to be is a fascinating journey, discovering how all these villains came to be. So, I think at this point we’ve dodged that bullet for the most part, but we need to live up to the expectations of the fans, and we’ll try to do that.

Q) You guys are building up to a lot of things that will happen in the comics over time. How much and what sort of comics did you sort of do when you were researching the role, and how much did you look into the character of Gordon?

A) I read a fair amount. I had done the voice of Bruce Wayne, Batman, in year one, so I was familiar with year one. I read Gotham Central, Long Halloween, a fair amount. Geoff Johns at DC actually sent me a bunch when I asked him for material on Gordon. The truth is that we really haven’t seen Jim Gordon for the most part at this stage of his life, and what we have seen in the mythology in terms of the comics, we haven’t seen much, but what we have seen we were contradicting on the show. We are starting him off in Gotham investigating the case of the Waynes. So, there were several takeaways for me reading a lot about it. The first, the most important, is that this tale has been interpreted and reinterpreted for 75 years, and each and every interpretation is different. Many are contradictory in many important ways. So, there’s a real, I think, freedom to interpret anew these characters in this world, and that’s what Geoff Johns said to me when I asked him how do I do this? What am I playing? What am I supposed to do here? He said we cast you for a reason. You’re perfect for the part. Do your work. Treat it like the best job in the world, which it is in some senses for me anyway. But it’s an acting job. You have to interpret this character for yourself, and that’s what I’ve done. We’ll always be true, or try to be true, to the themes and the tone of a gothic warish world that is represented in the Batman story, but we will interpret these characters as we see fit and have them interact in all kinds of unexpected ways. We have to surprise the audience at every turn. The only way you do that is by giving them new things that they didn’t know, new relationships and new windows into each character.

Q) Are there any villains that you have enjoyed the most or really enjoyed the portrayal of them the most so far?

A) I think all of our primary villains this year have done an excellent job, all the actors. Robin Taylor playing Oswald, obviously, has knocked it out of the park. Cory Michael Smith, who plays Nygma, we’re just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of where that character is going, but he’s a really terrifically talented actor, and he’s done a wonderful job. I liked the seed we planted this year for Scarecrow, Scarecrow’s father, and what affect that will have on a young Scarecrow. I also enjoyed the tease of a possible Joker in this orphan child of the circus, named Jerome. So, at this point, most of our primary villains, I think, have done a really, really nice job. We have a lot more to go, but it’s hard to pick a favorite.


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- Milo Ventimiglia – Gotham (starrymag):

Milo Ventimiglia – Gotham
Por starrymag | 10 Abril, 2015

Q) Obviously, the version of the Ogre that you’re playing is quite different from the comic book. Can you kind of talk a bit about what you did take as inspiration and kind of what you added yourself to create the character?

A) Of course, he is different than what’s in the DC universe. I took what was on the page, written by Bruno Heller’s team, and I pretty much went off of that. And my understanding of what they were looking for in a serial killer that was kind of a guy who was just looking for love, and as simple as it sounds, but as complex as it may be, and I just went—everything was off the page as was written, knowing that it wasn’t a direct pull from the DC universe and the original Ogre. So, it was actually exciting and fun and simple, because they wrote a really, really complex, dark character that was a lot of fun to play.

Q) And how did you start working on the show? How did you come to this part?

A) I got a phone call. I got a phone call from my agent saying that they wanted me, and I said great. I’m a huge fan of Bruno Heller, his work, and I’m longtime friends of Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue, and I’ve been watching the show. And it was just one of those things where I had those connections, and then I went, “I’m free at the moment. So this sounds like a lot of fun.”

Q) Just based on descriptions and information about the villain you’re playing on the show, is anything going to be shaking up the world for some of the main characters? And if so, what ways can you tease some of those shake-ups?

A) So, Jason Lennon, a.k.a. the Ogre, is a serial killer. He is, like I said, a guy who’s looking for love, but the love that he’s looking for is unconditional. And I think, as nice as that sounds and romantic as that sounds, his expectations are probably a lot more fierce and a lot past the line of what usual love is. So, he gets—I think from the setup that you guys might have seen from the featurette, he targets women for love and he also targets loved ones of cops that will investigate him. So it’s only natural that he’s going to run into a guy like Jim Gordon, who is the hero cop of Gotham. So yes, it’s two strong forces—one for good, one for dark—going up against each other.

Q) Having seen you on Heroes and having seen you in the geek roles and so on, how big are you into the DC universe as a fan yourself? Are you a huge Batman fan for several years, or how—what is your interaction with the geek world, basically?

A) I mean, I was raised on comic books. Every Wednesday my father would take me to a comic book shop in Orange County, California, Freedonia Funnies, and so I was raised on it. Batman, funny enough, was always my favorite. I loved the fact that he wasn’t an alien from another planet or injected with some kind of super-serum. I loved the fact that he was a man like anyone else, and he used his resources and his intellect and his body beyond what those other people would stop at. And he did it for a bit of vengeance, but also—or vigilantism, but also, he did it for the people he saw were caught up in a horrible society, a crime-filled society. So, I’d always been a Batman fan, I’d always been a DC fan, I grew up with Superman. I grew up on comic books, so there was everything in there. There was DC, there was Marvel, there was everything, man. I mean, and even the offshoot books of other, smaller press.

Q) I was wondering, with DC’s, and specifically Batman’s, colorful cast of villains, how do you think Ogre is going to be able to stand out among, like, the Joker, and Scarecrow, and Penguin?

A) I mean, look. Those Joker and Scarecrow and Penguin and Riddler, I mean, they’re all staples. The Ogre, I think, you kind of have to just look at what the show is, and it’s a different version, a pre-story of a story that we already know, of characters that we already know. So if you’re adding somebody new, hopefully—I think the writers have accomplished this, but hopefully the character is interesting enough, and seeing my silly mug up on the screen is going to be fun for audiences to say, “Oh wow, this guy is bad. He’s not the usual that we know.” But, at the same time, what the writers had created, and what I was able to do with the creative team on set, people, hopefully fans will enjoy it and say, “Wow, the Ogre is just as bad as the Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Riddler. Or anybody.”

Q) And with all those characters, is there anyone in the future you would love to kind of team up with or play with again, like work, team up with Penguin or something?

A) I mean, for selfish reasons of liking the actors, I think it’d be fun to team up with Robin, who plays Cobblepot, or Cory, who’s playing the Riddler, who’s beginning to go dark. Just because there’s a lot of fun and good guys. But, I mean, I kind of wait until the pages come in, the scripts come in, and just go, “Oh, okay. This is the fun I’m going to be having, this is who I’m going to be having the fun with.”

Q) We’ve seen you play mostly good guys, heroes, and do you think—was there any particular challenge for you playing a villain for these episodes?

A) Is it scary if I say no, there wasn’t a challenge playing a bad guy? No, that is the nice thing about just being an actor. You get thrown into a lot of different roles, so you get to embrace the good guy when you’re playing the good guy, and you get to embrace the bad guy when you’re playing the bad guy. This guy is pretty horrible. It’s hopefully one of those things that my mother won’t ask me questions about my upbringing, when she and my father weren’t around, when they watch it. But it’s always fun to play the villain. It’s always fun to play the foil to the good guy, the dark to the light, and the Ogre was probably about as much fun as you could have with playing a villain.

Q) How do you think that fans might react to your playing a villain when they’re not used to seeing you as one?

A) I mean, I think some fans of my work, I think they’ve seen me go pretty dark and be pretty bad, but I think they’ll hopefully enjoy this version of it, which is a little smoother, a lot more charming, but then flips on a dime and is evil, evil, evil.

Q) I’m curious what kind of interaction your character is going to have with Barbara Kean, because some photos were released in the trailer. It looks like they’re kind of cozy.

A) They are cozy. A guy picks a girl up at a bar and you see what happens. But if you kind of look at who the Ogre is, and what his motives are; yes, he’s looking for unconditional love with a woman, but also, when detectives are investigating him, he kills someone close to them. So, you have to ask yourself, he’s possibly close to Jim Gordon, and what, without him, that would entail.

Q) You play a lot of dark, dramatic characters. Is there something about these roles that continues to draw them to you?

A) I don’t even know if they’re drawn to me or if I’m drawn to them, or vice versa. I pretty much get the phone call and show up. I don’t know, or maybe it’s the dark hair, dark eyes, I really don’t know. Or maybe it’s because they think I’m teen vogue. I might have said at one point that I was dark and moody. Who knows? I mean, luckily, though, good opportunities like this keep coming my way. Thankfully there are great writer-producers like Bruno Heller that take a chance on a guy and say, “Look, we think you can pull this off, and you can pull this off better than anybody else can.” So, for me, I’m just honored that people choose me to work with them and want to bring a character to life. So, when I get a juicy one like this, it’s always a lot more exciting.

Q) You’re a part of social media. Are you looking forward to the instant fan feedback you’ll receive when the episodes premiere?

A) It’s funny. When I’m on set, I do it for the crew, I do it for the cast that I’m with, and then you just kind of hand it off to the fans. And some people are going to love what you do, some people are going to pick apart what you do. But, at the end of the day, it’s like, I feel really good about the work, and I had a lot of fun. I mean, this cast and crew of Gotham is just, they’re the best. There’s a lot of laughter and a lot of fun had. And I think, looking on Twitter, or something like that, and seeing the fans’ immediate reaction, of even just the featurette, it’s all pretty positive so far. So, I think people are going to enjoy seeing what we put together.

Q) Do you prefer playing the villain as opposed to the good guy? Which one is more enjoyable for you to play?

A) good roles are good roles. It doesn’t matter if they’re the bad guy, if they’re the good guy, if they’re the sideline guy, they’re anything. It’s just, good roles are good roles, and I think, right when I—probably, after I come out of playing the bad guy, sometimes you’re like, “Oh, maybe I want to be a bit of a golden heart on the next one,” and then you play the good guy and you’re like, “Oh, maybe I want to go dark for the next one,” but, you just kind of have to, or I have to, just take the roles that come at me, and embrace what it is, and put my heart into it and paint my heart with a lot of gold or a lot of shadow. So, for me, I just—I play them as they come. And I enjoy the h*** out of all of them. I really, really do.

Q) Now, this version of the Ogre is suave-seducer-serial killer. How do you prepare for this type of character in trying to get into the mind of a killer?

A) Is it wrong that I said I was just being myself? Honestly, it was like—this guy, he’s relaxed, he’s sincere, he is much darker than me as a man, but I was just trying to be myself, because he is a man. He’s affected by things that happened to him when he was younger, and he’s approaching his life the way that he knows how, and he’s operating off of wants that he has, which may not be very good to the majority of people, but to him, it’s what his life is. So for me, I think I was just trying to be a human being onscreen and understand what this guy went through to make him who he was.

Q) So, in other words, trying to give background to the character and playing off of that as opposed to—just, anyway, making it more in-depth as far as being a serial killer.

A) I’ll tell you what I didn’t want to be was a villain twisting his mustache while there’s a dame tied up on a train track. That’s what I didn’t want to be. What I basically wanted to do, I think, I was lucky because I had this amazing material, these great words and these good scripts. I was able to just follow that, and follow my instincts, and follow my want to just be an honest person. Honest with what he wants, like I said, even though what he wants is horrible and kind of odd, and how he gets it, what measures he goes to. He’s a sociopath.

Q) Well, what was the toughest scene for you to do?

A) Gosh. I mean, there were a lot of scenes, a lot of tough scenes, but I think the first one is always the hardest one, just because you’re on a set, you’ve got a bunch of new people, I’m always trying to learn everybody’s name, and do my job. The first scene that I shot, it was not even as the character. It was the character within the character within the character. So, I think that might have been the hardest one. But it was just because you’re the new kid at school. You’re the new kid at school, and you just want to go in there and do good work and not get noticed in a bad way, so the first scene is always just the hardest scene. Everything after that you settle in, you’re relaxed, you’re amongst friends, and you’re among the people that want you to do good work. You want them to do good work. So then you just do good work together.

Q) Playing such an evil serial killer, the Ogre, is he likable at all? Is there any trace that you actually like about playing the character? Is there anything besides being a serial killer that’s actually likable?

A) I think there’s a lot to be liked about the guy. He’s looking for love, I think, which is something we can all connect with in one way or another. We’re looking to be accepted. And he’s a guy who is looking for that. He’s charming without being arrogant, but there is arrogance in his way of being, because he can’t see outside of himself, and what he imposes on women that ultimately lead to him killing them. So, I think there is something that is true in his search, but his means of doing it are completely wrong. And what he’s asking for, to the degree that he’s asking for, is just, it’s skewed, it’s off, it’s not right, it’s not kind, it’s not good. But his kind of way of being and talking to a girl—I didn’t think, as I was reading the scripts, and as I was playing it, it wasn’t an act to get the girl so he can just kill the girl. He doesn’t want to kill the girl. But he eventually will, because, well, they’re not quite who he thinks they are. He’s already pushed them past the point where he’d probably be in trouble. So, why not just discard this woman and find another one? So, I think that there are small redeeming qualities about him, but the majority of who he is shadows any other good that’s possibly in there.

Q) You’re being very careful in describing this guy to avoid words like ‘evil’ and stuff. He’s just a guy looking for love, he’s just slaughtering people on the way. So, does that come into your thought process when you get someone who tells you this guy is just looking for love, and his way of doing that is killing women?

A) Well, I think killing women is the byproduct of things not working out, where a normal human being could just break up with the girl and say, “Listen, this isn’t working out. I think you’re lovely; you’re going to find the right guy, you’re going to be great for him. It’s me, it’s not you.” Jason Lennon just—I think he can’t handle the idea that this person, this woman that things didn’t work out with, exists. And I think he also knows in his demented mind that he goes too far with these women, and what he’s asking of them, even though in—I guess it’s semantics in saying that he’s just a guy looking for love. He’s really looking for the most heinous of partners possible. But he, I mean, he’s just off. He’s just off, but I didn’t want to paint the guy as not having any kind of sense of humanity inside of him just because that’s, I guess, me as an actor. I had to humanize the guy in some way. But he’s just mentally off in how he views the world, and I think, so selfish. So, so selfish that he believes that he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants because of his charm or his nice Gucci suits or money. But ultimately, I mean, it’s power. It’s wielding a power. I think, when I was thinking about this role and I was kind of researching and looking at other serial killers, like Ted Bundy was someone who kind of stuck with me, and how he approached people in life, and women, and what other people had crossed his path that he didn’t kill said about him; that he was charming. You could talk to him, and he was engaging, and that was the way to pull you in. But Ted Bundy, he was all about possession, having possessions. And in this unconditional love that Jason Lennon is looking for, I think he wants to possess. Not like say a spell and be a witch, but he wants to actually own every thought and part of a person, of a woman, that he can. So that they are completely entrusted and enslaved, and he feels unconditionally loved, but it’s not that because there’s zero partnership in the way that he—

Q) Yes. But we’re told by Fifty Shades of Grey that that’s just fine.

A) Yes. I guess, I don’t know. For some people, sure. For some people, sure.


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- Milo Ventimiglia: Hay un método en la locura de The Ogre (THR):

Milo Ventimiglia: Hay un método en la locura de The Ogre
Por Graeme McMillan 11 Abril, 2015 12:00pm PT

Milo Ventimiglia is no stranger to the superhero world, with a résumé that includes NBC's Heroes and voice roles for Marvel animated series including X-Men Anime and Ultimate Spider-Man. But his character on Fox's Gotham is far from anyone's idea of a hero.

"They took a name from the comic, and they created their own character," the Mob City alum told The Hollywood Reporter about the Ogre, who makes his debut Monday. "The character they gave Jim Gordon to fight, right up until the very end, is a pretty bad guy."

The veteran actor — who next appears in ABC's summer scripted mystery The Whispers — is having a field day on Gotham, where he's stretching his acting wings with his role as the big bad. "[It's fun to have] the opportunity to step outside of yourself and create a character that, in real life, we just can't do," he said. "I mean, we can, but we'll go to jail."

"The idea of who this guy is, and why he is, is so compelling that every turn, every kill, every moment for this guy, there's a reason why he's doing it all," said Ventimiglia, who is acting opposite longtime friend Ben McKenzie (Jim Gordon). "It may not be your reason, or my personal reason, but there is a reason."

Ventimiglia, who recurs for the remainder of the DC Comics adaptation's freshman season, knew he was signing on to portray a serial killer looking for love and is looking forward to learning more about the mysterious character who goes by the name of Jason Lennon.

"I discovered — as everyone else will discover — his motives, and how he was created," he said of the role that serves as a reunion for the Gilmore Girls alum with executive producer John Stephens.

The role also marks an extension of Ventimiglia's own personal interests — the fanboy says he was "raised on comics" and watched Fox's Gotham from the start to support pals McKenzie and co-star Donal Logue.

"Those were the stories I was following as a kid, the stories that expanded my creative mind and got me excited about being a good guy in life and standing up for others that were oppressed or hurt, or looked down on for whatever reason," he said. "This is the world that raised me."

While the ultimate fate of the Ogre will remain a mystery for a few weeks — the actor refused to even reveal if he would be sharing scenes with other villains featured on the Fox hit, though he did say that the character is "on his own path" — Ventimiglia described his time on Gotham as "a perfect storm."


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- Gotham: ¿Ha cruzado Gordon una línea en búsqueda de la Justicia? (TVGuide):

Gotham: ¿Ha cruzado Gordon una línea en búsqueda de la Justicia?
Por Adam Bryant | 12 Abril, 2015 7:21 PM EDT

Detective James Gordon may finally have the upper hand on Commissioner Loeb on Gotham, but what price did he have to pay to get it?

When last we visited Gotham City, Gordon (Ben McKenzie) uncovered a dirty little secret about Loeb (Peter Scolari), his mentally disabled daughter, and her involvement in Loeb's wife's death. Gordon used the leverage to force Loeb to prosecute corrupt cop Arnold Flass (Dash Mihok) and also release the blackmail he had over Gordon's partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue). But has Jim become just like Loeb in order to do the "right thing"?

Mega Buzz: Is Fish Mooney going to die on Gotham?

"He is realizing how he's going to have to operate in Gotham to get things done," McKenzie tells TVGuide.com. "Using the existence of Commissioner Loeb's daughter, a fragile almost mentality handicapped woman, against her father is a pretty Machiavellian thing to do. He's going to continue to fight for the greater good. It's just a change in his tactics. Gotham is starting to wear him down and he's starting to figure out he can't play by the rules."

But Jim isn't completely oblivious to the sacrifices he's making. "He definitely worries about it," McKenzie says. "Once you've fallen off of that moral high ground you're never going to get back up there. You tend to repeat yourself if not double down and go darker. Jim's aware of that. He knows the price that he's paying for it. But he doesn't have a better option, and there's a burden with that. That's what he's carrying around with him for the last four episodes."Adding to that burden is the possibility that Loeb might concoct another scheme to shut Gordon down for good. But McKenzie says Jim isn't that worried. "Jim stubbornly pushes forward, but he would be foolish to think that it's over," he says. "I don't know that he troubles himself too much with becoming paranoid about it, but he would be a fool if he thought that Loeb was done with him."

On Monday's episode (8/7c, Fox), however, Gordon will shift his focus to The Ogre (guest star Milo Ventimiglia), a deadly serial killer who has been active for years. "He seduces, kidnaps, tortures and then ultimately kills women in search of the perfect mate," McKenzie teases. "He ends up murdering a string of women because none of them meet his exacting standards. He's remained at large because he intimidates the police department, and any cop who takes on the case finds a loved one of his killed. So, nobody touches the case. It's a dirty little secret of the GCPD."

Of course, now that Jim is the president of the policeman's union, Jim refuses to let this dirty bit of business remain a secret any longer. "He's an ambitious man," McKenzie says. "His desire to rise up the food chain and create a cadre of like-minded souls within the GCPD is the way that he ends up taking on The Ogre case. When he is presented with the case, he can't let it go. The blood of the future victims will be on his hands if he did. So, he goes forward knowing full well that he could pay a price in his personal life. A woman he loves could be hurt."

As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, as the season comes toward its conclusion, Jim may once again find himself at the mercy of the Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor), whom Jim now owes a favor for his help in blackmailing Loeb. "The bonds that bind them will never fully be severed," McKenzie says. "They are in bed together for better or worse."

That will be wrapped up in what creator Bruno Heller promises will be a deadly, climactic finale. And for McKenzie's part, he thinks Jim's journey is only going to get darker and more complicated as the show goes on.

"This finale really helps set up a new Season 2," McKenzie says. "The overall journey of the city is a descent into chaos. You are really going to see that come into effect in the finale. It's the tip of the iceberg, but the iceberg is starting to break and descend into the sea. As we hit the finale, it's extremely chaotic and violent, and it will really shove us into a new place in Season 2 that is markedly different from where we started."


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- Jefe de Gotham adelanta el surgir del Enigma, Gordon vs. Ogre, el destino de Fish y más (TVLine):

Jefe de Gotham adelanta el surgir del Enigma, Gordon vs. Ogre, el destino de Fish y más
Por Matt Webb Mitovich / 12 Abril 2015, 4:18 PM PDT

Since October, Fox’s Gotham has told a tale of unrequited love (or something) between Edward Nygma (played by Cory Michael Smith) and GCPD colleague Kristen Kringle (Chelsea Spack). But to what end?

Will this repeatedly crushed crush serve as merely a first catalyst toward the riddle-loving forensics whiz evolving into his fated alter ego, or is it the catalyst?

“She is the catalyst,” Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller assures TVLine. “And she’s an innocent one at that> That’s the tragedy of it — she doesn’t mean to break his heart.”

Regardless, Kristen’s malice-free dismissal of Edward’s obvious interest will steer him down a specific path. So, as the Fox series resumes its season this Monday at 8/7, Heller says, “What we are going to see play out is the birth of The Riddler.”

Were that the only of do-right Detective Jim Gordon’s (Ben McKenzie) concerns. But it isn’t. Not by a stretch.

This Monday’s episode, titled “Beasts of Prey,” introduces Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) as Jason Lennon aka the Ogre, a serial killer who targets young women in Gotham City. And wouldn’t you know it, Jim’s estranged fiancée falls within the predator’s wheelhouse. “It’s really a kind of perverse love story, between [Jason] and Barbara (Erin Richards) — and Gordon is hot on their trail,” says Heller. “We discover some very creepy things about [Jason] and Barbara, and Gordon is forced to make some very tough choices,” all leading to a “shocking” denouement.

Also looming out there as a threat not just to Gordon but Gotham at large is Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), who upon being cast out by Falcone and her protegé The Penguin did not abort her mission to be a player in the crime world but instead set out to prove herself anew, by enduring the crucible that turned out to be Dr. Dulmacher’s island prison.

“It’s certainly about reinventing herself and coming back twice as strong, twice as ambitious,” Heller says of the storyline. “Every strong villain wants to be the queen or the king of the underworld, but it’s an ambition that trips up a lot of people — if you’re striving for ultimate power, you always run the risk of ultimate defeat. And that’s essentially whats playing out now: Can Fish take control or not? Because the consequences of failure are dire.”

(Juxtaposing Fish’s name and the idea of “dire” consequences of course of course evokes Pinkett Smith’s recent, spoiler-esque comments about her run on the already renewed Fox drama. To that, Heller simply notes, “Gotham is a crazy place, and anything can happen.”)

Elsewhere as Season 1’s final four episodes unspool: Alfred (Sean Pertwee) will bounce back from his hospitalization but not in time to prevent Bruce (David Mazouz), egged on by Selina (Camren Bicondova), from uncovering what’s terribly rotten in the belly of Wayne Enterprises. “As much as Alfred wants to stop that journey, Bruce is going to discover something about his family that is earth-shattering, really,” Heller hints. Gordon meanwhile, amidst combatting criminal threats outside the cop shop walls, will find that even with Commissioner Loeb’s coerced endorsement, loyalty among colleagues remains hard to come by.

“It’s a double-edged sword there, because the more power he gets there among the rank-and-file, the more he’s hated by his bosses,” Heller previews. And that will also threaten to derail, again, his partnership with Harvey (Donal Logue), who will be “forced to choose between his friendship with Gordon and his sense of self preservation.”


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- Entrevista con Milo Ventimiglia (seat42f):

Entrevista con Milo Ventimiglia
Por Tiffany Vogt 13 Abril, 2015

Beginning a multi-episode arc, Milo Ventimiglia joins Fox’s GOTHAM as Jason Lennon, the Orge, a serial killer who will bring some heart-clutching moments and will perhaps take the life of someone we all hold dear. Just who will fall and who will stand against this new terrifying threat, that remains to be seen.

In a recent press call, star Milo Ventimiglia talked about digging deep in the psyche of Jason Lennon and the attraction of playing such a twisted character.

The version of the Ogre that you’re playing is quite different from the comic book. Can you kind of talk a bit about what you did take as inspiration and kind of what you added yourself to create the character?
MILO: Of course, he is different than what’s in the DC universe. I took what was on the page, written by Bruno Heller’s team, and I pretty much went off of that. And my understanding of what they were looking for in a serial killer that was kind of a guy who was just looking for love, and as simple as it sounds, but as complex as it may be, and I just went knowing that it wasn’t a direct pull from the DC universe and the original Ogre. So it was actually exciting and fun and simple, because they wrote a really, really complex, dark character that was a lot of fun to play.

How did you start working on the show? How did you come to this part?
MILO: I got a phone call from my agent saying that they wanted me, and I said great. I’m a huge fan of Bruno Heller, his work, and I’m longtime friends of Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue, and I’ve been watching the show. And it was just one of those things where I had those connections, and then I went, “I’m free at the moment. So this sounds like a lot of fun.”

Will your character be shaking up the world for some of the main characters? And if so what ways can you tease some of those shake-ups?
MILO: Jason Lennon, a.k.a. the Ogre, is a serial killer. He is a guy who’s looking for love, but the love that he’s looking for is unconditional. And I think, as nice as that sounds and romantic as that sounds, his expectations are probably a lot more fierce and a lot past the line of what usual love is. So he targets women for love and he also targets loved ones of cops that will investigate him. So it’s only natural that he’s going to run into a guy like Jim Gordon, who is the hero cop of Gotham. So yes, it’s two strong forces—one for good, one for dark—going up against each other.

How big are you into the DC universe as a fan yourself?
MILO: I was raised on comic books. Every Wednesday my father would take me to a comic book shop in Orange County, California, Freedonia Funnies, and so I was raised on it. Batman, funny enough, was always my favorite. I loved the fact that he wasn’t an alien from another planet or injected with some kind of super-serum. I loved the fact that he was a man like anyone else, and he used his resources and his intellect and his body beyond what those other people would stop at. And he did it for a bit of vengeance, but also—or vigilantism, but also he did it for the people he saw were caught up in a horrible society, a crime-filled society. So I’d always been a Batman fan, I’d always been a DC fan, I grew up with Superman. I grew up on comic books, so there was everything in there. There was DC, there was Marvel, there was everything, even the offshoot books of other, smaller press.

With Batman’s, colorful cast of villains, how do you think Ogre is going to be able to stand out among the Joker, and Scarecrow, and Penguin?
MILO: Look, Joker and Scarecrow and Penguin and Riddler, they’re all staples. The Ogre, I think, you kind of have to just look at what the show is, and it’s a different version, a pre-story of a story that we already know, of characters that we already know. So if you’re adding somebody new, hopefully—I think the writers have accomplished this, but hopefully the character is interesting enough, and seeing my silly mug up on the screen is going to be fun for audiences to say, “Oh wow, this guy is bad. He’s not the usual that we know.” But, at the same time, what the writers had created, and what I was able to do with the creative team on set, people, hopefully fans will enjoy it and say, “Wow, the Ogre is just as bad as the Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Riddler or anybody.”

With all those characters, is there anyone in the future you would love to kind of team up with or play with again, like work, team up with Penguin or something?
MILO: For selfish reasons of liking the actors, I think it’d be fun to team up with Robin, who plays Cobblepot, or Cory, who’s playing the Riddler, who’s beginning to go dark. Just because there’s a lot of fun and good guys. But, I mean, I kind of wait until the pages come in, the scripts come in, and just go, “Oh, okay. This is the fun I’m going to be having, this is who I’m going to be having the fun with.”

We’ve seen you play mostly good guys, heroes, and do you think—was there any particular challenge for you playing a villain for these episodes?
MILO: Is it scary if I say no, there wasn’t a challenge playing a bad guy? No, that is the nice thing about just being an actor. You get thrown into a lot of different roles, so you get to embrace the good guy when you’re playing the good guy, and you get to embrace the bad guy when you’re playing the bad guy. This guy is pretty horrible. It’s hopefully one of those things that my mother won’t ask me questions about my upbringing, when she and my father weren’t around, when they watch it. But it’s always fun to play the villain. It’s always fun to play the foil to the good guy, the dark to the light, and the Ogre was probably about as much fun as you could have with playing a villain.

How do you think that fans might react to your playing a villain when they’re not used to seeing you as one?
MILO: Fans of my work, I think they’ve seen me go pretty dark and be pretty bad, but I think they’ll hopefully enjoy this version of it, which is a little smoother, a lot more charming, but then flips on a dime and is evil, evil, evil.

What kind of interaction your character is going to have with Barbara Kean, because some photos were released in the trailer. It looks like they’re kind of cozy.
MILO: They are cozy. A guy picks a girl up at a bar and you see what happens. But if you kind of look at who the Ogre is, and what his motives are; yes, he’s looking for unconditional love with a woman, but alSo when detectives are investigating him, he kills someone close to them. So you have to ask yourself, he’s possibly close to Jim Gordon, and what, without him, that would entail.

You play a lot of dark, dramatic characters. Is there something about these roles that continues to draw them to you?
MILO: I don’t even know if they’re drawn to me or if I’m drawn to them, or vice versa. I pretty much get the phone call and show up. I don’t know, or maybe it’s the dark hair, dark eyes, I really don’t know. Or maybe it’s because they think I’m teen vogue. I might have said at one point that I was dark and moody. Who knows? Luckily, though, good opportunities like this keep coming my way. Thankfully there are great writer-producers like Bruno Heller that take a chance on a guy and say, “Look, we think you can pull this off, and you can pull this off better than anybody else can.” So for me, I’m just honored that people choose me to work with them and want to bring a character to life. So when I get a juicy one like this, it’s always a lot more exciting.

Are you looking forward to the instant fan feedback you’ll receive when the episodes premiere?
MILO: It’s funny. When I’m on set, I do it for the crew, I do it for the cast that I’m with, and then you just kind of hand it off to the fans. And some people are going to love what you do, some people are going to pick apart what you do. But, at the end of the day, it’s like, I feel really good about the work, and I had a lot of fun. I mean, this cast and crew of Gotham is just, they’re the best. There’s a lot of laughter and a lot of fun had. And I think, looking on Twitter, or something like that, and seeing the fans’ immediate reaction, of even just the featurette, it’s all pretty positive so far. So I think people are going to enjoy seeing what we put together.

Do you prefer playing the villain as opposed to the good guy? Which one is more enjoyable for you to play?
MILO: Good roles are good roles. It doesn’t matter if they’re the bad guy, if they’re the good guy, if they’re the sideline guy, they’re anything. It’s just, good roles are good roles, and I think, right when I—probably, after I come out of playing the bad guy, sometimes you’re like, “Oh, maybe I want to be a bit of a golden heart on the next one,” and then you play the good guy and you’re like, “Oh, maybe I want to go dark for the next one,” but, you just kind of have to, or I have to, just take the roles that come at me, and embrace what it is, and put my heart into it and paint my heart with a lot of gold or a lot of shadow. So for me, I just play them as they come. And I enjoy the h*** out of all of them. I really, really do.

This version of the Ogre is suave-seducer-serial killer. How do you prepare for this type of character in trying to get into the mind of a killer?
MILO: Is it wrong that I said I was just being myself? Honestly, this guy, he’s relaxed, he’s sincere, he is much darker than me as a man, but I was just trying to be myself, because he is a man. He’s affected by things that happened to him when he was younger, and he’s approaching his life the way that he knows how, and he’s operating off of wants that he has, which may not be very good to the majority of people, but to him, it’s what his life is. So for me, I think I was just trying to be a human being onscreen and understand what this guy went through to make him who he was. . . I’ll tell you what I didn’t want to be was a villain twisting his mustache while there’s a dame tied up on a train track. That’s what I didn’t want to be. What I basically wanted to do, I think, I was lucky because I had this amazing material, these great words and these good scripts. I was able to just follow that, and follow my instincts, and follow my want to just be an honest person. Honest with what he wants, like I said, even though what he wants is horrible and kind of odd, and how he gets it, what measures he goes to. He’s a sociopath.

What was the toughest scene for you to do?
MILO: Gosh. I mean, there were a lot of scenes, a lot of tough scenes, but I think the first one is always the hardest one, just because you’re on a set, you’ve got a bunch of new people, I’m always trying to learn everybody’s name, and do my job. The first scene that I shot, it was not even as the character. It was the character within the character within the character. So I think that might have been the hardest one. But it was just because you’re the new kid at school. You’re the new kid at school, and you just want to go in there and do good work and not get noticed in a bad way, so the first scene is always just the hardest scene. Everything after that you settle in, you’re relaxed, you’re amongst friends, and you’re among the people that want you to do good work. You want them to do good work. So then you just do good work together.

Is there anything besides being a serial killer that’s actually likable?
MILO: I think there’s a lot to be liked about the guy. He’s looking for love, I think, which is something we can all connect with in one way or another. We’re looking to be accepted. And he’s a guy who is looking for that. He’s charming without being arrogant, but there is arrogance in his way of being, because he can’t see outside of himself, and what he imposes on women that ultimately lead to him killing them. So I think there is something that is true in his search, but his means of doing it are completely wrong. And what he’s asking for, to the degree that he’s asking for, is just, it’s skewed, it’s off, it’s not right, it’s not kind, it’s not good. But his kind of way of being and talking to a girl—I didn’t think, as I was reading the scripts, and as I was playing it, it wasn’t an act to get the girl so he can just kill the girl. He doesn’t want to kill the girl. But he eventually will, because, well, they’re not quite who he thinks they are. He’s already pushed them past the point where he’d probably be in trouble. So why not just discard this woman and find another one? So I think that there are small redeeming qualities about him, but the majority of who he is shadows any other good that’s possibly in there.

You’re being very careful in describing this guy to avoid words like ‘evil’ and stuff. He’s just a guy looking for love, he’s just slaughtering people on the way. So does that come into your thought process when you get someone who tells you this guy is just looking for love, and his way of doing that is killing women?
MILO: Well, I think killing women is the byproduct of things not working out, where a normal human being could just break up with the girl and say, “Listen, this isn’t working out. I think you’re lovely; you’re going to find the right guy, you’re going to be great for him. It’s me, it’s not you.” Jason Lennon just—I think he can’t handle the idea that this person, this woman that things didn’t work out with, exists. And I think he also knows in his demented mind that he goes too far with these women, and what he’s asking of them, even though in—I guess it’s semantics in saying that he’s just a guy looking for love. He’s really looking for the most heinous of partners possible. But he’s just off. He’s just off, but I didn’t want to paint the guy as not having any kind of sense of humanity inside of him just because that’s, I guess, me as an actor. I had to humanize the guy in some way. But he’s just mentally off in how he views the world, and I think, so selfish. So so selfish that he believes that he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants because of his charm or his nice Gucci suits or money. But ultimately, I mean, it’s power. It’s wielding a power. I think, when I was thinking about this role and I was kind of researching and looking at other serial killers, like Ted Bundy was someone who kind of stuck with me, and how he approached people in life, and women, and what other people had crossed his path that he didn’t kill said about him; that he was charming. You could talk to him, and he was engaging, and that was the way to pull you in. But Ted Bundy, he was all about possession, having possessions. And in this unconditional love that Jason Lennon is looking for, I think he wants to possess. Not like say a spell and be a witch, but he wants to actually own every thought and part of a person, of a woman, that he can. So that they are completely entrusted and enslaved, and he feels unconditionally loved, but it’s not that because there’s zero partnership


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- Ben McKenzie sobre el final de la temporada: "No todo el mundo sobrevive" (thr):

Ben McKenzie sobre el final de la temporada: "No todo el mundo sobrevive"
Por Graeme McMillan 13 Abril, 2015 8:45am PT

It's been quite a year for Jim Gordon, the only honest cop featured on Fox's Gotham.

He's uncovered conspiracies inside and out of the Gotham City Police Department, been accused of murder, lost (and regained) his position as a detective, and even witnessed a murderer whose preferred method of transport was balloons. As Ben McKenzie, who plays the upright hero in television's meanest city, told The Hollywood Reporter, the worst is yet to come.

"The finale is just absolutely bananas and I couldn't even really begin to describe all the crazy things that happen in it," the actor says of the hour that will put the spotlight on the "downward spiral of Gotham."

The season finale, hot noted, will see Gotham inch closer toward "ultimate anarchy" that will result in "masked vigilantes roaming the streets" — with major consequences for the characters around Gordon.

"Not everybody lives and the people who do live don't necessarily end up mentally all there," he said. "There's a price to be paid. It's really crazy."

McKenzie, however, remained mum on the fate of departing star Jada Pinkett Smith's Fish Mooney and if one of the DC Comics' show's most colorful villains will meet her maker by season's end.

In the more immediate future, Gordon has to deal with the threat of Milo Ventimiglia's new character the Ogre — and it's very possible he'll have to do it alone. "We're introducing the Ogre, a serial killer who's searching for his perfect mate," McKenzie previewed of the story that he cautioned isn't a tale of simple romantic troubles. "He has very exacting standards that have not been met."

The Ogre has been active for years without being stopped by the cops, much to Gordon's disgust. "The reason the Ogre remains free is that any cop that comes after him pays a personal price because someone they love is killed — or tortured and killed," he says of the story with "Machiavellian twists and turns" that will push Gordon into pursuing the case, no matter the cost to himself or Leslie Thompkins, his current love interest (Morena Baccarin).

"Jim is put in a very difficult situation, and it all comes to a head toward the end in a pretty dramatic way," he warned.


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- Milo Ventimiglia adelanta su nuevo papel en Gotham y explica por qué The Ogre es en realidad agradable (TVOvermind):

Milo Ventimiglia adelanta su nuevo papel en Gotham y explica por qué The Ogre es en realidad agradable
Por Andy 10 Abril, 2015

FOX’s hit drama series Gotham returns tonight for its remaining four episodes before the epic season finale in May. In tonight’s all-new episode, we will be meeting gruesome serial killer Jason Lennon, a.k.a. The Ogre, played by Heroes and Gilmore Girls star Milo Ventimiglia, who begins a multi-episode arc on the FOX series. This past week, TVOvermind participated in a conference call with other reporters where Ventimiglia talked about joining the comic book genre, what kind of trouble Lennon will be causing in Gotham‘s final Season 1 episodes, and more.

Be aware of potential spoilers from the conference call which has been edited for time and content.

With the character of The Ogre being an iconic character from DC Comics, Ventimiglia definitely took time to prepare for the role. However, it wasn’t as simple as just reading a few comic books, as Gotham‘s take on The Ogre is not the same as DC’s original version of the character.

“He is different than what’s in the DC universe,” Ventimiglia explained. “I took what was on the page, written by Bruno Heller’s team, and I pretty much went off of that. And my understanding of what they were looking for in a serial killer that was kind of a guy who was just looking for love, and as simple as it sounds, but as complex as it may be, and I just went—everything was off the page as was written, knowing that it wasn’t a direct pull from the DC universe and the original Ogre. So, it was actually exciting and fun and simple, because they wrote a really, really complex, dark character that was a lot of fun to play.”

And was it that darkness and complexity that attracted Ventimiglia to this role on Gotham? Does he gravitate towards those types of characters?

“You know, good roles are good roles,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re the bad guy, if they’re the good guy, if they’re the sideline guy, they’re anything. It’s just, good roles are good roles, and I think, right when I—probably, after I come out of playing the bad guy, sometimes you’re like, ‘Oh, maybe I want to be a bit of a golden heart on the next one,’ and then you play the good guy and you’re like, ‘Oh, maybe I want to go dark for the next one,’ but, you just kind of have to, or I have to, just take the roles that come at me, and embrace what it is, and put my heart into it and paint my heart with a lot of gold or a lot of shadow. So, for me, I just—I play them as they come. And I enjoy the [heck] out of all of them. I really, really do.”

Although only four episodes remain in Gotham‘s first season, Lennon’s presence on the show will certainly cause problems for several main characters, chief among being them Jim Gordon.

“Jason Lennon, a.k.a. the Ogre, is a serial killer,” Ventimiglia described. “He is, like I said, a guy who’s looking for love, but the love that he’s looking for is unconditional. And I think, as nice as that sounds and romantic as that sounds, his expectations are probably a lot more fierce and a lot past the line of what usual love is. So, he gets—I think from the setup that you guys might have seen from the featurette, he targets women for love and he also targets loved ones of cops that will investigate him. So it’s only natural that he’s going to run into a guy like Jim Gordon, who is the hero cop of Gotham. So yes, it’s two strong forces—one for good, one for dark—going up against each other.”

Surprisingly, though, Ventimiglia insists that there is still something likable and even somewhat understandable about The Ogre and his actions on Gotham.

“I think there’s a lot to be liked about the guy,” Ventimiglia stated. “He’s looking for love, I think, which is something we can all connect with in one way or another. We’re looking to be accepted. And he’s a guy who is looking for that. He’s charming without being arrogant, but there is arrogance in his way of being, because he can’t see outside of himself, and what he imposes on women that ultimately lead to him killing them.”

“So, I think there is something that is true in his search, but his means of doing it are completely wrong,” he continued. “And what he’s asking for, to the degree that he’s asking for, is just, it’s skewed, it’s off, it’s not right, it’s not kind, it’s not good. But his kind of way of being and talking to a girl—I didn’t think, as I was reading the scripts, and as I was playing it, it wasn’t an act to get the girl so he can just kill the girl. He doesn’t want to kill the girl. But he eventually will, because, well, they’re not quite who he thinks they are. He’s already pushed them past the point where he’d probably be in trouble. So, why not just discard this woman and find another one? So, I think that there are small redeeming qualities about him, but the majority of who he is shadows any other good that’s possibly in there.”

However, that likability and potential for goodness doesn’t soften The Ogre, as Ventimiglia insists that the character can hold his own with the other DC villains that have already been introduced on Gotham.

“Those, you know, Joker and Scarecrow and Penguin and Riddler, I mean, they’re all staples,” he said. “The Ogre, I think, you kind of have to just look at what the show is, and it’s a different version, a pre-story of a story that we already know, of characters that we already know. So if you’re adding somebody new, hopefully—I think the writers have accomplished this, but hopefully the character is interesting enough, and seeing my silly mug up on the screen is going to be fun for audiences to say, ‘Oh wow, this guy is bad. He’s not the usual that we know.’ But, at the same time, what the writers had created, and what I was able to do with the creative team on set, people, hopefully fans will enjoy it and say, ‘Wow, the Ogre is just as bad as the Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Riddler. Or anybody.'”

And even though Ventimiglia has already played a superhero of sorts, portraying Peter Petrelli throughout all four seasons of NBC’s Heroes, he’s always been a comic book reader and, of course, a big Batman fan.

“I was raised on comic books,” he said. “Every Wednesday my father would take me to a comic book shop in Orange County, California, Freedonia Funnies, and so I was raised on it. Batman, funny enough, was always my favorite. I loved the fact that he wasn’t an alien from another planet or injected with some kind of super-serum. I loved the fact that he was a man like anyone else, and he used his resources and his intellect and his body beyond what those other people would stop at. And he did it for a bit of vengeance, but also—or vigilantism, but also, he did it for the people he saw were caught up in a horrible society, a crime-filled society. So, I’d always been a Batman fan, I’d always been a DC fan, I grew up with Superman. I grew up on comic books, so there was everything in there.”



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- Ben McKenzie está "impactado" de lo lejos a lo que llega la final (cbr):

Ben McKenzie está "impactado" de lo lejos a lo que llega la final
Por Scott Huver 13 Abril, 2015

In ever tale about their formative years, Jim Gordon has always served as a resolutely moral, law-and-order counterpoint to the vigilante Batman, who fights crime outside the lines drawn by legalities. But the young Jim Gordon of "Gotham" is about to find himself testing just where those limits end in his own personal quests for justice, according to actor Ben McKenzie.

During the Fox hit's visit to Anaheim's WonderCon, McKenzie sat down with the press to provide a peek at the road ahead for the presumptive future police commissioner as he faces down the seductive, insidious serial killer The Ogre, who puts Gordon's own loved ones in harm's way, wrangles romantic complications ahead and realizes he may have missed the signs leading to the debut of one of Gotham City's most dangerous criminal masterminds.

What is Jim Gordon looking at, as we get closer to the finale?

Ben McKenzie: Well, we've already seen him evolve significantly. I mean, the last episode, when [Police Commissioner] Loeb used Bullock against him to free Arnold Flask, a guy that he had put behind bars -- Loeb orchestrated a betrayal of a partnership, and Jim and Harvey end up tracking down Loeb's cache of dirt only to find what really is at its heart is his daughter, who he's protecting because she killed Loeb's wife. Jim then uses Loeb's daughter against him for the good of Gotham in many respects, giving his own partner his dirt back on him so he's free and clear. But this concept of the sort of Machiavellian moves that Jim is now capable of is a real evolution for him.

I mean, when you saw him at the beginning of the season, he's almost naïve, he's so moral. He is naïve, he's so moral. Now, he has learned to play ball. That's only going to continue. At the end of the season, we introduce a new case, The Ogre, a serial killer who targets women, seduces them, tortures them, kills them. And then he also targets any loved one of a cop who comes after him. Any time a cop has taken on the case, a loved one of that cop has been killed. So he's kept himself from being investigated through intimidation. Jim, of course, cannot abide by this. He has to take on the case, only, of course, knowing that he will pay a price for that.

So has he morphed to the point where he really believes the ends justify the means?

He's getting dangerously close to that. I wouldn't say he's there yet. I would say the-end-justifies-the-means is probably the final journey of Jim of what we hope is a nice long run here -- or that's the end point of the journey, I should say: the journey is each step down the spiral staircase into hell. Each circle, which compromise, how deep a compromise are you going to make? Right now, he's only threatening Loeb with the exposition of his daughter. Loeb's a terrible guy. He's threatening to use it. He knows Loeb's going to fold. He folds. He got what he wanted. It's not too bad, but it will get worse.

What was your entry point into understanding the character?

He's a soldier. In our conception, he served, was decorated, and comes home, really, for the first time because he was raised outside of Gotham. He left after his father was killed. So he comes back to this city that he really never knew, to take on the crusade of his father who he always imagined was a lion, a hero. He quickly realizes the city is a moral abyss, and his father might not have been the upstanding citizen that he thought he was.

But the military, the sense of discipline and sense of mission, is, I think, what I gravitated towards when I first tried to get a hold of the character. He's the only one in Gotham who has that, right? Everyone else plays ball. Everybody else is "You know, do I really need to do my job? Maybe I can get a little extra money on the side…" Everybody's kind of sucked into that, because how could you not? Jim just has to be distinct in order to be the guy he is.

Romantically, he seems like he's a heartbeat away from a lot of complications. Can you give a sense of where he's headed?

Well, he and Thompkins are doing pretty well at this point. She's an M.E. She's working alongside him which has a little bit of -- it can feel a little claustrophobic to have your partner right next to you in the office. But they have a shared sense of mission. They really are sort of kindred spirits trying to clean up Gotham, so they're doing pretty well. But Barbara's come back, only to find Jim in the arms of someone else. The Ogre and Jim taking on that case, knowing that a loved one of his is going to be targeted brings the situation to a head that will have some pretty dire consequences to the people involved.

What was your reaction upon reading the script of the finale?

I was shocked at how far we went. It is just jammed. I'm actually, hopefully, going to see a cut of it on Wednesday with Danny Cannon, who directed the finale which -- it was great to get Danny back, who did the pilot and really helped create, along with production staff, the look and feel of the show. The finale, it's almost chaos. I mean, not everybody lives. Many people do not emerge, even if they do live, whole, let's say, from the experience. Yep, there's guns blazing and cars -- it's just crazy.

It seems like Edward Nygma's going to be quite a big character going forward. What's Jim's take on this?

I think at this point Jim's oblivious. We haven't seen him really -- I think he's so focused on so many other things, the fact that this fairly unorthodox oddball M.E. is becoming increasingly erratic isn't really registering yet. He's got bigger fish to fry. I think we will get into that. I'm not sure how far the writers want to push that in season two, but certainly, season three, season four, season five, probably, you're going to see an evolution throughout. So even in season two, you'll start to see that situation kind of evolve. I mean, at some point, Jim has to actually see what's going on with Nygma, and he can't be happy about it when he does.

Now that you've finished the journey, give me your takeaway from shooting the first season?

It's been, I think, like many -- maybe all -- first seasons of all shows, it's an education for everyone on the show. Any time you're trying to create something anew, and having 300 people work on it, which we do, you don't know what you're making until you start making it. Once you start making it, you start to adjust to what's working, what isn't working, what can be better, what needs to go away. And that's what we've done.

I think from a super sort of macro level, we made a mistake early on of becoming too procedural in our storylines in the first, say, six. The pilot wasn't, and then all of a sudden, we started becoming a little bit more weighted in that direction. I just don't think it worked. And we also weren't using as many characters from the mythology that we should have. We had villains of the week, but they weren't from the Batman universe. We're not going to do that anymore. We're focused on unspooling villains in multi-episode arcs. The vast majority will be from the mythology, and they will interact with each other. I think it's a much deeper and more satisfying experience for the fans.

So that's the big, macro takeaway. For me, as an actor and the character, I've learned an enormous amount. But it's mainly what I was talking about is the evolution or devolution of the character into a hardened, more seasoned guy.

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- Ben McKenzie nos prepara para los últimos cuatro episodios de la temporada (themarysue):

Ben McKenzie nos prepara para los últimos cuatro episodios de la temporada
Por Teresa Jusino 13 Abril, 2015 at 6:44 pm

Gotham returns to FOX tonight with the last four episodes of the season! While he had nothing to say about Jada Pinkett-Smith leaving the show after this season, Ben McKenzie, who stars as Det. Jim Gordon, gave up some tasty tidbits about the show’s upcoming dark story arc, and where Gotham is headed in Season 2 while speaking to a group of journalists recently.

On whether Gordon is conscious of becoming more and more morally ambiguous, or if he’s being sucked in unawares:

I think he’s being sucked in. I think he is aware on some level. But I think the overwhelming nature of Gotham tends to sort of beat you down, and even if you are aware on some level of what’s going on, you really are just focused on what’s right ahead of you, and you can’t really see the full picture; you’re just in it. So, I think he’s a little unaware.

On the new villain, The Ogre (played by Milo Ventimiglia):

The Ogre is a serial killer who seduces, kidnaps, tortures and kills women. In the never-ending pursuit for a partner, he finds these women, and they, let’s just say, don’t meet to his exacting standards. He’s a true psychopath, and he’s remained at large for years because he protects himself. Any cop who takes on his case, the Ogre targets the loved ones of that cop. He ends up—the cop will end up with his wife’s throat cut, his girlfriend dead, things like that. So, no cop touches it, and it’s basically just become the dirty little secret of the GCPD.

Jim, when he ends up in contact with the case, and he ends up in contact with it in an interesting way, he’s a hero; he can’t put it down. For him not to pursue the case would be to have the blood of future victims on his hands, so he’s put in a perilous position where he knows that the women in his life could be targets. It creates a strain on his relationship with Thompkins, and it will have dire consequences moving forward.

On how these final four episodes will propel us into Gotham‘s Season 2:

The arc takes us down an incredibly dark path, probably darkest of the season, and then after a sort of three-episode arc involving the Ogre, there is kind of an epic season finale that really pushes us strongly into a Season 2 that is extremely chaotic. The best way I can describe it without giving too much away is you’re really starting to see the downward spiral of Gotham as a city towards the ultimate anarchy that will manifest and result in all these masked vigilantes roaming the streets. You’re at the tipping point here on the season finale, and I think it’s going to kick us into Season 2 with a literal bang, almost.

On initial criticism of Gotham, particularly that this is “a Batman show without Batman”:

This show, in particular, has had an interesting first year. I’m very proud of it. It’s grown a lot, I believe, in the first year, and I think we’ve learned from some mistakes that we’ve made in the first year. I think after we made what I believe is a very strong pilot, we ended up on a detour where we became a little too procedural. We became a little too focused on the crime of the week. We were using villains that weren’t really from mythology, and that did a disservice to the mythology that we were trying to serve and to the fans.

We’ve adjusted. We’ve introduced villains with multi-episode arcs. They are from the mythology, by and large. A grandeur of Gotham is sort of more fully exposed. I think we’re learning, as you learn on the first year of a show. You can only really learn by making mistakes and correcting them.

I’m particularly relieved that the primary criticism of the show, the Batman show without Batman, at this point, I believe has been shown to be a bit of a misunderstood complaint. If one is really a fan of Batman and the world of Batman, I would think discovering how Batman came to be is a fascinating journey, discovering how all these villains came to be. So, I think at this point we’ve dodged that bullet for the most part, but we need to live up to the expectations of the fans, and we’ll try to do that.

I’ll admit it. I was one of those people who wasn’t crazy about Gotham when it first started. Those first couple of episodes were a bit cringe-inducing, and I was thisclose to giving up on the show. I’m glad I didn’t. Gotham has evolved, and become an intriguing, enthralling addition to the superhero television landscape. I’m thrilled there’s a Season Two, and I’m looking forward to the show’s return tonight!


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- Milo Ventimiglia sobre su arco en Gotham, Heroes Reborn y Gilmore Girls (people.com):

Milo Ventimiglia sobre su arco en Gotham, Heroes Reborn y Gilmore Girls
Por Amanda Michelle Steiner 13/04/2015 05:50 PM EDT

Set to play a serial killer for a three-episode arc on Gotham, Milo Ventimiglia's Jason Lennon is a far cry from Peter Petrelli, the empath he portrayed on Heroes.

Nicknamed "The Ogre" – but not the one we know from the DC Comics universe – Jason targets young women in Gotham on a twisted quest for love. When the women he encounters don't meet his expectations, they become discarded in increasingly grisly fashion.

With the Gotham PD too fearful to investigate due to Jason's tendency to target the loved ones of any detectives who start poking around, Jason basically has free rein on Gotham's dating pool … that is, until Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) – with more honor than sense, as ever – steps in.

Now that he's back in the superhero world, Ventimiglia, 37, tells PEOPLE that playing a villain is "fun in a different way" from playing someone like his Heroes character. The actor also reveals whether or not we can expect him to appear in the upcoming Heroes reboot, Heroes Reborn, and what he thinks happened to Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Jess after the series finale of Gilmore Girls.

On Heroes, Peter was a good guy almost to a fault. What's it like to play a villain?
Fun in a different way. Is it wrong to say that it's a lot of fun to play a serial killer? But it is! Playing someone that is more selfish than selfless is fun. At the same time, I never wanted to make a guy who is without humanity, without some kind of human quality. Luckily, the words on the page helped me out with that. He's a guy who is looking for love. He is looking for a partner.

You said that he's coming from a place of love. Twisted though that place is, does that mean the door is left open for Jason's rehabilitation or return?
I think that there are some people you can't necessarily reprogram. I think that there's a degree where you have to give someone an opportunity to prove that they see a different side of life, but at the same time, some people are just evil. We all have within us the capability to be completely deplorable and evil. Like, what are those things that trigger that and allow us to explore that darker side?

What was it like to finally work with Ben McKenzie?
We've been friends for years and years and years, but we've never been on a set together. There's a huge group of actors that have been in the game since our early twenties and we all just know each other and you just get to be friends with each other because these are your contemporaries. Ben was always a contemporary, and he was clocking in good work, and he's just such a good guy. It was a blast. I always hope to be on set with good friends, and it was about time for he and I.

What do you think of the Heroes reboot? Is there any way we'll see Peter Petrelli on Heroes Reborn?
I'm sure he'll be mentioned, but you're not going to see him. Back in our heyday, after the first season, I was the only one that was like, "Look, I'm having fun, but at some point this is going to end." And people couldn't believe that I said that. And then, the show ended four years later. Now that the show is coming back, I think it's going to be interesting to see how the fans react to what is not what they had before. They may not be completely satiated without all the characters they fell in love with.

When I watch a show, I watch it for the characters. If the majority of them aren't there … it's going to be different. It doesn't mean that it can't be great. I'm very excited for Zach [Levi, who will play the lead] and Masi [Oka, who is returning]. I wish them all the best. In my mind, Peter Petrelli f---ed off and went somewhere else. He's gone.

Speaking of past characters, I feel compelled to ask about Gilmore Girls. Jess was always my favorite of Rory's boyfriends, even though he was kind of a jerk.
He was a good guy, though! By the very end. He was a really good guy.

He was! By the end. Speaking of rehabilitation. … Anyway, I like to think that Jess and Rory got back together after the series ended. What do you think about that? Do you want to kill my dreams?
I don't want to kill your dreams, but I don't think Jess and Rory got back together. I think they kept a friendly relationship. Maybe they send each other postcards. There was another version of the ending that I'd heard from [GG creator] Amy Sherman-Palladino and it still wasn't Rory and Jess. … Or it was? I have no idea. I think that's also the cool part. You never really know. There are stories and things that you wonder about but then you get to dictate how you see things and how they could have worked out, which is kinda cool, you know?

As opposed to, "Hey, let's revisit this, let's put a capper on it and let's tell you exactly how it ended." Then, maybe, you're going to be disappointed. That's always the tough thing about revivals. You get so excited, and then maybe it will leave a bad taste in your mouth. I don't know. I'm of the opinion of moving forward. Something ends, it's done. And that's okay! You get to share the memories and look back at things reverently and just move forward.

[Willfully ignores] So … you are telling me … that Jess and Rory at least keep up a texting relationship.
[Laughs] I don't think Jess is the texting type. I don't want to say he's as old school as letter-writing, but … I think Jess really, truly cared about Rory and that was pretty evident at the very end. He said, "This isn't you. I know you. This isn't you." But I don't know.

There's a Gilmore Girls reunion happening at the ATX Television Festival. Will you be there?
I'd love to, but I just signed on for another movie that hasn't been announced so I'm waiting for my schedule. I'd love to be a part of it and to see the old crew and to connect with the fans specifically about Gilmore. I know everybody else has signed on, but I just don't know my schedule right now which kinda sucks.


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- Ventiglimia habla sobre el interpretar al vicioso asesino en serie de "Gotham" (cbr):

Ventiglimia habla sobre el interpretar al vicioso asesino en serie de "Gotham"
Por Scott Huver 13 Abril, 2015

Milo Ventiglimia may have made his way to Gotham City, but he isn't looking like much of a Hero.

The actor, whose had his big breakthrough role as "Heroes'" soaring protagonist Peter Petrelli, joins a new superheroic landscape with a three-episode arc playing a seemingly suave but ultimately sick and sadistic serial killer -- only loosely inspired by his comic book namesake, the Bat-villain the Ogre -- who'll match wits with the noble but increasingly win-at-all-costs cop Jim Gordon -- and possibly exacting a very personal toll in the process.

Ventiglimia joined the press for a conference call to shed a little light on the very dark role, and his hopes for his time on "Gotham," before the story arc kicks off the show's final run to the end of Season 1.

On finding inspiration for the show's very different take on the Ogre, versus the original comic book version:

Milo Ventiglimia: He is different than what's in the DC Universe. I took what was on the page, written by Bruno Heller's team, and I pretty much went off of that. My understanding of what they were looking for in a serial killer that was kind of a guy who was just looking for love, and as simple as it sounds, but as complex as it may be, and I just went -- everything was off the page as was written, knowing that it wasn't a direct pull from the DC Universe and the original Ogre. It was actually exciting and fun and simple, because they wrote a really, really complex, dark character that was a lot of fun to play.

On the Ogre's impact on Gotham and its citizens:

Jason Lennon, a.k.a. the Ogre, is a serial killer. He is, like I said, a guy who's looking for love, but the love that he's looking for is unconditional. And I think, as nice as that sounds and romantic as that sounds, his expectations are probably a lot more fierce and a lot past the line of what usual love is. So, he gets -- I think from the setup that you guys might have seen from the featurette, he targets women for love, and he also targets loved ones of cops that will investigate him. So it's only natural that he's going to run into a guy like Jim Gordon, who is the hero cop of Gotham. So yes, it's two strong forces -- one for good, one for dark -- going up against each other.

On his personal comic book fandom:

I was raised on comic books. Every Wednesday, my father would take me to a comic book shop in Orange County, California -- Freedonia Funny [Works] -- and so I was raised on it. Batman, funny enough, was always my favorite. I loved the fact that he wasn't an alien from another planet, or injected with some kind of super-serum. I loved the fact that he was a man like anyone else, and he used his resources and his intellect and his body beyond what those other people would stop at.

And he did it for a bit of vengeance -- or vigilantism -- but also, he did it for the people he saw were caught up in a horrible society, a crime-filled society. So I'd always been a Batman fan, I'd always been a DC fan, I grew up with Superman. I grew up on comic books, so there was everything in there. There was DC, there was Marvel, there was everything, man. I mean, and even the offshoot books of other, smaller press.

On how the Ogre will distinguish himself among the show's emerging versions of the classic rogues:

Joker and Scarecrow and Penguin and Riddler -- I mean, they're all staples. The Ogre, I think -- you kind of have to just look at what the show is, and it's a different version, a pre-story of a story that we already know, of characters that we already know. So if you're adding somebody new, hopefully -- I think the writers have accomplished this, but hopefully the character is interesting enough, and seeing my silly mug up on the screen is going to be fun for audiences to say, "Oh wow, this guy is bad. He's not the usual [villain] that we know." But, at the same time, what the writers had created, and what I was able to do with the creative team on set, people, hopefully fans will enjoy it and say, "Wow, the Ogre is just as bad as the Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Riddler -- or anybody."

On his dream super-villain team-ups:

For selfish reasons of liking the actors, I think it'd be fun to team up with Robin [Lord Taylor], who plays [Oswald] Cobblepot, or Cory [Michael Smith], who's playing the Riddler, who's beginning to go dark. Just because there's a lot of fun and good guys. But, I mean, I kind of wait until the pages come in, the scripts come in, and just go, "Oh, okay. This is the fun I'm going to be having, this is who I'm going to be having the fun with."

On the challenge of shifting into a bad guy role:

Is it scary if I say, "No, there wasn't a challenge playing a bad guy?" No, that is the nice thing about just being an actor. You get thrown into a lot of different roles, so you get to embrace the good guy when you're playing the good guy, and you get to embrace the bad guy when you're playing the bad guy. This guy is pretty horrible.

It's hopefully one of those things that my mother won't ask me questions about my upbringing when she and my father weren't around, when they watch it. But it's always fun to play the villain. It's always fun to play the foil to the good guy, the dark to the light, and the Ogre was probably about as much fun as you could have with playing a villain.

I think some fans of my work, I think they've seen me go pretty dark and be pretty bad, but I think they'll hopefully enjoy this version of it, which is a little smoother, a lot more charming, but then flips on a dime and is evil, evil, evil.

Good roles are good roles. It doesn't matter if they're the bad guy, if they're the good guy, if they're the sideline guy, they're anything. It's just, good roles are good roles, and I think, right when I -- probably, after I come out of playing the bad guy, sometimes you're like, "Oh, maybe I want to be a bit of a golden heart on the next one," and then you play the good guy and you're like, "Oh, maybe I want to go dark for the next one." But you just kind of have to, or I have to just take the roles that come at me, and embrace what it is, and put my heart into it and paint my heart with a lot of gold or a lot of shadow. So, for me, I just -- I play them as they come. And I enjoy the hell out of all of them. I really, really do.

On the Ogre's relationship to Gordon's ex-flame Barbara Keane:

They are cozy. A guy picks a girl up at a bar, and you see what happens. But if you kind of look at who the Ogre is, and what his motives are? Yes, he's looking for unconditional love with a woman, but also, when detectives are investigating him, he kills someone close to them. So, you have to ask yourself, he's possibly close to Jim Gordon, and what, without him, that would entail.

On taking in fan feedback via social media:

You know, it's funny -- when I'm on set, I do it for the crew, I do it for the cast that I'm with, and then you just kind of hand it off to the fans. Some people are going to love what you do, some people are going to pick apart what you do. But, at the end of the day, it's like, I feel really good about the work, and I had a lot of fun. I mean, this cast and crew of "Gotham" is just, they're the best. There's a lot of laughter and a lot of fun had. And I think looking on Twitter, or something like that, and seeing the fans' immediate reaction, of even just the featurette, it's all pretty positive so far. I think people are going to enjoy seeing what we put together.

On getting into the mindset of a serial killer:

Is it wrong if I said I was just being myself? [Laughs] Honestly, this guy, he's relaxed, he's sincere, he is much darker than me as a man, but I was just trying to be myself, because he is a man. He's affected by things that happened to him when he was younger, and he's approaching his life the way that he knows how, and he's operating off of wants that he has, which may not be very good to the majority of people. But to him, it's what his life is. So for me, I think I was just trying to be a human being onscreen and understand what this guy went through to make him who he was.

I'll tell you what I didn't want to be, was a villain twisting his mustache while there's a dame tied up on a train track. That's what I didn't want to be. I was lucky, because I had this amazing material, these great words and these good scripts. I was able to just follow that, and follow my instincts, and follow my want to just be an honest person. Honest with what he wants, like I said, even though what he wants is horrible and kind of odd, and how he gets it, what measures he goes to. He's a sociopath.

On his toughest scene:

There were a lot of scenes, a lot of tough scenes, but I think the first one is always the hardest one, just because you're on a set, you've got a bunch of new people, I'm always trying to learn everybody's name, and do my job. The first scene that I shot, it was not even as the character. It was the character within the character within the character. So, I think that might have been the hardest one. But it was just because you're the new kid at school. You're the new kid at school, and you just want to go in there and do good work and not get noticed in a bad way, so the first scene is always just the hardest scene. Everything after that, you settle in, you're relaxed, you're amongst friends, and you're among the people that want you to do good work. You want them to do good work. So then you just do good work together.

On finding something likable within the sociopath:

I think there's a lot to be liked about the guy. He's looking for love, I think, which is something we can all connect with in one way or another. We're looking to be accepted. And he's a guy who is looking for that. He's charming without being arrogant, but there is arrogance in his way of being, because he can't see outside of himself, and what he imposes on women that ultimately leads to him killing them.

So, I think there is something that is true in his search, but his means of doing it are completely wrong. And what he's asking for, to the degree that he's asking for, is just -- it's skewed, it's off, it's not right, it's not kind, it's not good. But his kind of way of being and talking to a girl -- I didn't think, as I was reading the scripts, and as I was playing it, it wasn't an act to get the girl so he can just kill the girl. He doesn't want to kill the girl. But he eventually will, because, well, they're not quite who he thinks they are. He's already pushed them past the point where he'd probably be in trouble. So, why not just discard this woman and find another one? So, I think that there are small redeeming qualities about him, but the majority of who he is shadows any other good that's possibly in there.

I think killing women is the byproduct of things not working out, where a normal human being could just break up with the girl and say, "Listen, this isn't working out. I think you're lovely, you're going to find the right guy, you're going to be great for him. It's me, it's not you." Jason Lennon just -- I think he can't handle the idea that this person, this woman that things didn't work out with, exists. And I think he also knows in his demented mind that he goes too far with these women, and what he's asking of them, even though in -- I guess it's semantics in saying that he's just a guy looking for love. He's really looking for the most heinous of partners possible.

I mean, he's just off. But I didn't want to paint the guy as not having any kind of sense of humanity inside of him just because that's, I guess, me as an actor. I had to humanize the guy in some way. But he's just mentally off in how he views the world, and I think, so selfish. So, so selfish that he believes that he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants because of his charm or his nice Gucci suits or money. But ultimately, I mean, it's power. It's wielding a power.

I think, when I was thinking about this role and I was kind of researching and looking at other serial killers -- Ted Bundy was someone who kind of stuck with me, and how he approached people in life, and women, and what other people had crossed his path that he didn't kill said about him. That he was charming, you could talk to him, and he was engaging, and that was the way to pull you in. But Ted Bundy, he was all about possession, having possessions. And in this unconditional love that Jason Lennon is looking for, I think he wants to possess. He wants to actually own every thought and part of a person, of a woman, that he can.


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- Milo Ventimiglia sobre The Ogre, sus vínculos con Barbara Kean y más (comicbook):

Milo Ventimiglia sobre The Ogre, sus vínculos con Barbara Kean y más
Por Russ Burlingame 13 Abril, 2015

Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia heads to Gotham City tonight to play Jason Lennon, an original villain known as The Ogre who will be a threat for the rest of the FOX hit for the rest of its first season.

A dangerous character who sets his sights on Gordon's ex-fiancee Barbara, it's hard to say just how he'll present a big enough threat to Gotham to close out the season with...but with a multiple-episode story arc dedicated to him, he's recurring more than almost any other original character on the series to date.

Ventimiglia joined ComicBook.com to talk about the character, the challenges of playing a truly despicable character, and why he's glad The Ogre isn't in the comics.

With Heroes, it was original characters even if it was playing with genre tropes. Here, everyone else is recognizable. Do you find that freeing, or do you kind of wish you had some reference material?

No, if anything I thought it was incredibly freeing but luckily, I had these great words that Bruno Heller and those guys had created and trusted me with. I got really lucky; you could jump into this genre of television and be bogged down by the idea of who the character was to the fans.

When I voiced Wolverine for the Marvel animated series, that terrified me. There were all these great actors who had done great takes on it before me and all of a sudden I'm the new guy doing a new version. Are people going to like it or are people going to hate it or are people going to resent the fact that you're even doing it?

So it was freeing to have a wholly new character, but still a badass, dark, sick character.

What is motivating The Ogre?

Love. He's motivated by love. He's a man looking for love. His means of getting it are as admirable as anybody else's, but his execution for lack of a better word of whether or not a woman is willing to love him the way he's hoping to is wrong. It is discovered pretty quickly why he is the way he is and you do find out what his problem is -- but also, he is a human being, he's just on the far opposite end of being a good human being. There is something in there -- a want to be loved -- that is driving him as a man. But when he can't be loved the way he wants to be loved, that's when his irrational side comes out.

Would you call him kind of an opposite to Gordon? I mean, Gordon is a lot more human here than idealized.

Yeah. I think the nice thing about this version of Jim Gordon, as well as Ben's portrayal and the way Bruno and the boys are writing it, is that he's a boy scout but he's a boy scout that's unconventional. Ultimately, who he is, he's there for good. He's honor and justice and he wants to fight for that and help people that are oppressed be free and live happy in their lives in Gotham. Jason Lennon is selfish, where Jim Gordon is mostly selfless. They are good adversaries and it's a good foil to play with, having Jim go up at Jason Lennon at the end of this first season arc.

Where that propels anybody else who's affected by The Ogre? I know there's photos of Erin [Richards] and I -- and whats that going to do for her? It'll be interesting.

Who else have you had a chance to play off of? It seems like somebody as morally gray as Bullock, for instance, would respond differently to you than Gordon.

Look, I'll be honest. I think Bullock responds with a lot of fear toward The Ogre. He cares about his friend, he cares about his partner, and he knows how everything's going down. Bullock is telling Jim Gordon to let it go before The Ogre goes after someone that he cares about.

I think the interaction -- there's a whole lot of personalities to put together on one screen. If you have them all sitting in one room, maybe a group therapy session would be interesting? But outside of that, everybody's pretty much operating on their own stories.

You're kind of a pillar in the geek community. How did you end up at Gotham first instead of S.H.I.E.L.D. or The Flash or something?

[Laughs] You know, it was something that I got a phone call. I had gotten home from doing some press in Europe for a show that I have over at Sony called Chosen, and I got a call from my agent saying, "You got an offer on Gotham."

And they told me what the arc was and what the character was and they sent the first script over and I just went, "Wow." First of all, just creatively, this is interesting and this is awesome and I'm into it.

Then secondarily, I'm a huge fan of Bruno Heller's work and have been friends with Danny Cannon for a really long time. So great character, I get to speak some great words from a great writer, and then I'm hanging out with my friend? Sure! Sounds like a good time.

So it honestly was just something that kind of came my way and I happened to be free and I was excited about being a part of it and excited that they'd have me. It's interesting having a little bit of cred in the genre world by Heroes or comic books or Marvel animated stuff that I've done. I think I'm just lucky. I'm a lucky guy who gets a chance to play some cool characters with some great people.

Obviously, everyone likes to think of themselves as a good person. What do you draw on to create a despicable character?

I always look at my own life and just be myself.

...I'm kidding, actually. I really don't; this guy's horrible!

I always try to find the human quality. What drives them? What makes them believe that they are right in doing what they're doing? And just try to identify with that and understand that people are people and they're going to do bad things or wrong things. You can think the worst stuff, you can do the worst stuff. As long as it doesn't affect anybody else, it's like okay. That's when you've crossed the line and you're labeled as bad and somebody has to stop you.

We all have a dark nature in us. All of us do. I just try to understand the motive and let loose on anything else. Whatever dark whims are inside myself when the cameras are rolling, I'm just kind of a slave to the character.


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- Milo Ventimiglia sice que su nuevio villano de Gotham es 'un completo psicópata' (TVInsider):

Milo Ventimiglia sice que su nuevio villano de Gotham es 'un completo psicópata'
Por Emily Maas | 13 Abril, 2015 10:30am

Gotham marks its return tonight (April 13) with a new villain taking hold of Gotham City, causing trouble for Det. James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and the rest of the GCPD. The Ogre, who appeared in the Batman comics as a genetically altered man picking off the scientists to blame for his condition, makes his Gotham appearance as the smooth talking Jason Lennon, played by Heroes vet and Gilmore Girls alum Milo Ventimiglia. The actor talked to us about his take on the Ogre, what's next for Gotham, and his interest in a Gilmore Girls reboot (because really, who doesn't want that?).

Let's talk about your version of the Ogre, Jason Lennon.

Jason Lennon is a serial killer. A guy looking for love, who does so in a very wrong way. He's looking for unconditional love, which I think sounds like a very simple, very nice thing to be looking for, but the measures that he takes to get it, to have women prove to him that he loves them – he just turns into a psychopath. He's just a complete psychopath. There isn't any real resemblance to what was in the DC Universe. It's not something that fans are going to get upset with, hopefully, because I didn't play it the way that they were looking for, which is always a terrifying thing.

It looks like he's going to be targeting Barbara Kean (Erin Richards). How does Gordon react to that?

Yeah, you can imagine that Jim's not going to react so well. Even though things aren't so swell between him and Barbara, Jim's still a great guy. He doesn't want to see harm brought on anybody. He's the good cop of Gotham. So, even though the Ogre has a run-in with Barbara, and a very interesting path with her, I don't think Jim's the kind of guy that's going to sit on his heels and let things happen. It's an interesting turn to see the valor of Jim Gordon.

Do we know what's happened to Jason Lennon to make him into a serial killer?

You will find out. That's actually something that was always a question because you want to think about that. What makes a villain? What makes someone step out of the light and go into the shadows? And it's something that wasn't held back on. If you're a smart person, and I know the majority of the fan base for Gotham are definitely savvy and understand the comic book world, you will be able to see well enough why he is how he is.

Is there any humanity to his character, or is it just an act to get to that eventual murder?

You know, I never played it as an act to get to that murder–as a means to an end. I always took it as genuine: He wants to find love. He didn't quite have it when he was younger, which you'll learn, and he wants it so badly, so desperately. What he's initially asking for and wanting, is genuine. He is a human being. He's not a complete monster. That's something that you can't discount – his love. But his method and approach of getting it and asking for it and wanting to have it, well, that's not very human being of him.

Were you already a fan of Gotham before getting this role?

I was, actually. I'm a comic book fan and a huge fan of Bruno Heller. I've been friends with Ben McKenzie since my twenties, and known Donal Logue [who plays Harvey Bullock] and directed him in a commercial campaign for Warner Brothers. This is a really cool, kick-ass version of a story that I already knew. So, when I got the call that they wanted me to join the cast for the rest of the season as a villain, I was like, "This is great!"

Who's your favorite character in the series? And you can't say yourself.

I can't say myself even if I wanted to. Maybe Jason Lennon would say himself, but that's out of arrogance. I've really enjoyed Robin Lord Taylor's Oswald Cobblepot as the Penguin. I've enjoyed watching him zigzag around different allegiances and play this slimy guy, but also smart, and calculated, and manipulative. It's just fun to watch. That's the best part about this show: It's fun.

What can we expect to see for the rest of the season?

Dark, dark, dark, dark. Bad, bad, bad, bad. Evil, evil, evil, evil. You're going to see a very bad human being. And you've got to wonder whose going to win in the end.

You've already denied having anything to do with the upcoming Heroes reboot, Heroes Reborn. If there were a Gilmore Girls reboot, would you be interested?

I think I would do it. Yes. I would do it because of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, I'd love to see that. They are amazing writers and they gave us cool characters to play and stories and everything day in and day out. It was a blast. Of course, it's a trend that everything is coming back, but I would want to do it just to be on set with Dan and Amy because those were great times. So yeah, I absolutely would.

Great. Now I'm just going be sitting here hoping it happens!

Yeah, right. And I'm going to hope that The Smiths get reunited.



http://www.tvinsider.com/article/1360/m ... sychopath/

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- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "You Need My Help":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHvvi5idlBk


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "A Broken Heart":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWqcQqoQvO4


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "Have Some Breakfast":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxbozwK5Ye0


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "A Man With A Reputation":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njsRtrBzgMc


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "It Doesn't Add Up":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_h2a1zLYuI


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "Do You Like It?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tufdx6TCwB4


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "Sooner Or Later":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce6n6kqjVgU


- GOTHAM | 1.19 "Beast of Prey" Clip "You Two Lied":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzWa2EDqDI

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- Descripción oficial del 1.21 "The Anvil Or The Hammer":

1.21 "The Anvil Or The Hammer" (27 Abril 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT): LA VERDAD EMERGE EN LA CIUDAD - The Ogre derriba las emociones de Barbara, mientras que Gordon y Bullock hacen enormes sacrificios por localizarle. Mientras tanto, el Pingüino lidera una masacre, empezando una guerra épica, mientras que Bruce descubre la verdad sobre Wayne Enterprises y Nygma lidia con sus recientes acciones. Estrellas invitadas: Morena Baccarin como la 'Dra. Leslie Thompkins'; Milo Ventimiglia como 'Jason Lennon'; Drew Powell como 'Butch Gilzean'; David Zayas como 'Don Maroni'; Chelsea Spack como 'Kristin Kringle'; Clark Carmichael como 'Connor'; Caroline Lagerfelt como 'Mrs. Kean'; Richard Poe como 'Mr. Kean'; Michael Potts como 'Sid Bunderslaw'; Barbara Rosenblat como 'Lidia'; Chris Chalk como 'Lucius Fox'; James Andrew O’Connor como 'Tommy Bones'; Tonya Glanz como 'Sally' y April Yvette Thompson como 'Lucy'.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ ... /?a=118340

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- Stills del 1.20 "Under the Knife":

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- Descripción oficial del 1.22 "All Happy Families are alike":

1.22 "All Happy Families are alike" (04 Mayo 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT): LA BATALLA ENTRE EL BIEN Y EL MAL SE ENFURECE - A medida que la guerra de bandas de Gotham City llega a su punto álgido, Fish Mooney va cara a cara con Maroni y el Pingüino en un intento por volver a reclamar la ciudad. Mientras tanto Barbara y Leslie Thompkins son reunidas tras los recientes eventos, y Bruce busca en la Wayne Manor cualquier pista que su padre pusiera haber dejado atrás. Estrellas invitadas: Morena Baccarin como la 'Dra. Leslie Thompkins'; Drew Powell como 'Butch Gilzean'; David Zayas como 'Don Maroni'; Peter Scolari como ''; Chelsea Spack como 'Kristin Kringle'; Dashiell Eaves como 'Kelly'; James Andrew O’Connor como 'Tommy Bones'.

http://dccomicsnews.com/2015/04/12/goth ... -revealed/

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- GOTHAM | "Killer Characters" Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDY0MtvY0k



- GOTHAM | Donal Logue supports #GOFURTHER with Ford, The Independence Fund:

https://amp.twimg.com/v/f3e002e0-aea1-4 ... 02e2ec3ee9

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- Stills del 1.21 "The Anvil Or The Hammer":

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- GOTHAM | 1.20 "Under the Knife" Promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZYr8uiScNY