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

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- Primeras imágenes de 'Harvey Dent' en el episodio 1.09:

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- GOTHAM | 1.08 "The Mask" Clip "A Tough Business":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOag_FpN9s


- GOTHAM | 1.08 "The Mask" Clip "He Put Up A Fight":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0POpPTJhXI4


- GOTHAM | 1.08 "The Mask" Clip "Remember, Things Change":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcn6XtNKBvY


- GOTHAM | 1.08 "The Mask" Clip "A Tad Late, Master Bruce?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EEu8t-rp6Q


- GOTHAM | 1.08 "The Mask" Clip "What Changed?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ooXFCtRZ3E



- GOTHAM | "The Long Con " Featurette:

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

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- GOTHAM | "The Lone Cop " Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zeG3giEkc


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Promo (HD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apKdEpOd5B8


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Sneak Peek (HD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gt9A4L5rZc





Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 1.08 "The Mask". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ

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- Stills del 1.10 "Lovecraft":

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- GOTHAM | "Fight" Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgIVU1TcPD4

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- Cómo este 'Harvey Dent' será diferente (EW):

Cómo este 'Harvey Dent' será diferente
Por James Hibberd 13 Nov, 2014 2:01PM

The newest star of Fox’s Gotham reveals the plan for the show’s portrayal of iconic character Harvey Dent/Two Face. Below, Nicholas D’Agosto (Masters of Sex and Heroes) talks about his take on the ambitious coin-flipping assistant district attorney who eventually becomes the hideously scarred villain. D’Agosto will make his debut in Monday’s episode.

EW: What’s unique about Gotham‘s Harvey Dent?
NICHOLAS D’AGOSTO: What’s unique would be that this is the origin story so [the writers] have this freedom to follow their imagination for the foundation of this guy. I looked through what were the through-lines for Harvey Dent in his history and I thought it was really important to latch onto his early parental abuse by his father. What’s nice about this origin story is that although he’s going to look a little different than other pre-Two Face Harvey Dents, there’s foreshadowing of his darker nature—there’s going to be a little bit of that you’re seeing early.

So, in contrast to the Aaron Eckhart version in The Dark Knight—where he’s a very pure person who, with a sudden light-switch flip, becomes this evil character—there are some darker tendencies lurking under the surface?
I don’t want to go so far as to say they’re written. I don’t want to stress that too much. The character does get established as a positive character that Jim Gordon [Ben McKenzie] can get behind. But there’s an ambition in his Harvey Dent, there’s almost a craven ambition to him, and that can lead to his more angry episodes. It lends itself to a darker element to him that most people will know. Dent is still a pure and genuine character who switches with the accident.

What’s his relationship like with Jim Gordon?
Gordon is really mistrustful of pretty much everyone at this stage. Harvey Dent emerges as this ally out of the blue that’s had this previous relationship with Montoya and Allen and he brings a kind of new element to solving the Wayne murders. It’s a very positive element, but as things do on this show, they go awry we’ll have to see where Gordon and Dent end up.

There’s a been a little criticism of villains on the show foreshadowing really heavily what they’ll become right out of the gate. Does your Dent have any obvious Two Face qualities? Like, is there any coin flipping involved?
Oh, yeah. It’s a facet of the television world. It’s important to speak to a larger audience and to speak to have these kind of [touchstones] because people have their minds in so many different shows. Definitely from the first scene you’ll see me flipping a coin. I hope it comes across like in Eckhart’s version where it was used by Harvey as a tool to subtly manipulate people into getting his way.

Any potential love interest?
I’m hoping for a really big Ben McKenzie love scene—no, I really don’t know. There’s nothing at this moment, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is. This is going to be a long story of who he is, and there’s been love relationships in previous iterations of the franchise, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Who do you think did the best Harvey Dent before your take?
I really want to go through all the movies. [The casting] happened really fast. I didn’t have a lot of time. But I really loved the Aaron Eckhart version. It was a resoundingly successful franchise for this generation of moviegoers … and will say I also listened to the animated series, how [actor Richard Moll] differentiated Harvey Dent from Two Face.

Will he be Dent for awhile, or will Two Face emerge this season?
I don’t know. They always keep us actors in the dark. I think it would be at least a couple of seasons. They’ve taken certain license with certain elements of the story, like they’ve played up a large age difference between Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne. So who knows where they’ll go with it? I hope I get to be Two Face somewhere in the middle of the run, so I can really explore these two halves.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/11/13/gotha ... dent-plan/

- Nicholas D’Agosto habla sobre el interperar al 'Harvey Dent' de una cara (ksitetv):

Nicholas D’Agosto habla sobre el interperar al 'Harvey Dent' de una cara
Por Craig Byrne, 14 Nov 2014

One Harvey was not enough for FOX's Gotham, as Nicholas D'Agosto joins the show on Monday's new episode as Harvey Dent enters the picture. Fans of comic books and Batman films know Harvey has another destiny as well - that of the villainous Two-Face.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves.

D'Agosto participated yesterday in a press conference call about what we can expect from Harvey when he comes to Gotham in the episode appropriately called "Harvey Dent."

For starters, D'Agosto spoke of the tendency to want to show Harvey's capacity for being Two-Face as a challenge that has to be fought. "I think the most important thing I had to do, and I did this with the help of the directors and producers and everybody around as we, at the 11th hour, sculpted the beginning of this guy. I think it was really important for me to just be smooth and easy and likeable and things roll off my back," he said of how Harvey will be when we meet him.

"He gets himself involved in some pretty intense, high-stakes situations. You know, he kind of walks right in with, like, a loaded gun - not literally - but he presents this to Gordon, and they go off on this attempt together. I like how vague I’m being. I would say that the most important thing for me to do in that is to show his confidence and his ease in these situations. I think it’s tempting to want to show and to play the kind of bolder emotions, and those are definitely there, but they’re more fun if they’re a surprise," Nicholas teased.

Did he look to previous takes on the role for inspiration? "Yes," he said, before clarifying that he does not mean the theatrical versions of Harvey Dent. "I would say that I didn’t go watch a lot of the movies because I don’t find, in my past experience, I haven’t found watching other actors do the role to have been really valuable, because part of the problem with that is is that you start to think that that version of the character is in the version that’s in front of you, and it’s not," he admitted. "They’ve written a new character, and he has new stakes and ambitions and things driving him, so I try not to go just watch other people. But what I did do was just kind of do as much Google searching of different comic sites and history sites and go through the arc of, the condensed, essentially Cliffs Notes versions of all the things that Harvey Dent has done and all the different iterations of Batman," he explained.

"One of the things that really kept standing out to me is that they talk about him being abused as a child and that he he had these, maybe, psychotic episodes as a child that kind of foreshadow his capacity to become someone like Two-Face later. What I think was really good about that was that drives him to want to eradicate this type of behavior, and also why he has the potential to have such a visceral response to when he’s threatened or when he sees someone that he thinks is also abusive, and it’s because that relationship that we have to our parents is so irrational, and I think it’s important that this character has this capability, this capacity to be really rational. And although he’s mostly Harvey Dent right now, he has under the surface these things. That’s the thing that I was able to pull, and that was really valuable for me," he said.

What's next for Harvey Dent on Gotham? D'Agosto told us that he has a "great mini arc" in the middle of Season 1, but that the Penguin/Fish story is at the forefront. "I think that right now my story’s kind of contained, but come second season, I become a regular on the show, and that’s when I think you’ll mostly see a lot more of me branching out," he said.

http://www.ksitetv.com/interviews-2/got ... dent/47181

- Entrevista con Nicholas D’Agosto – Gotham (starrymag):

Entrevista con Nicholas D’Agosto – Gotham
Por starrymag | 14 Noviembre, 2014

Q) What have been some of the challenges you’ve faced taking on Harvey?

A) Wow. Well, I mean listen, I could sit here and wax for a long time about it. I mean, it’s been so exciting, mostly, but I would say that the biggest challenges probably were just catching up to the timeline of this thing. This may be jumping into some slightly different answers to other questions, but when I first found out about this audition, it was—I was auditioning for something else, and then the casting office wasn’t aware that I was available because I was working on another project, and they wanted me to come in for Harvey Dent later that night, and I hadn’t looked at any of the material, so we pushed it to the following morning. So, Thursday I got the material, Friday morning I went out for the project. I was working on another project for a little bit, and then Tuesday I got the official word that I got the job. Wednesday the contract was finalized. Thursday I flew to New York. Friday I was getting fit for wardrobe and everything, and then Monday and Tuesday, I pretty much shot all of my scenes for this first episode within those two days. It was just a whirlwind process, and I had a lot to prepare. I had to do all of my research and get my full comprehensive view of my approach in a very short amount of time. So, it was a real thrill, but it was also—that was probably the biggest challenge. The acting part is just fun, at that point it’s just a good time, but getting up to that point, I would say, was the biggest challenge. But truly, the set, everybody there, for being such a dark city, Gotham, it’s a really, really sweet group of people, very welcoming.

Q) Was there anything then that you added to this role that wasn’t originally scripted for you?

A) I don’t know if I could say that. I think what I bring to this version of Harvey Dent, which again, the actor can bring what they can from other iterations of the franchise, but at the end of the day they’ve just got to play what’s in front of them, play what’s on the page. What was on this page was, there’s this real ambition for this guy, this guy is really to the point of being almost a little reckless, and he puts himself in a position where he puts a lot on the line. Some of the things that come out of that foreshadow who he will eventually be, the potential that he has to become Two-Face later. I would say that, for good or ill, I guess I’m a really ambitious, merciless, rage-filled guy. I would say that ultimately what I bring to this role and what this role was kind of requiring was someone that can be a kind and genuine and sincere person, a sympathetic character; and at the same time someone who’s ambition can kind of bring them into areas that maybe could potentially cross a line.

Q) Kind of piggybacking off of that last question, what’s the most important thing you feel you need to convey with your performance?

A) I think a lot of actors fight this, I certainly fight it, is the tendency to want to show the capacity for being—In this case it would be the capacity for being Two-Face. I think the most important thing I had to do, and I did this with the help of the directors and producers and everybody around as we, at the 11th hour, sculpted the beginning of this guy. I think it was really important for me to just be smooth and easy and likeable and things roll off my back. He gets himself involved in some pretty intense, high-stakes situations. He kind of walks right in with a lot—he kind of walks in with like a loaded gun, and—not literally, but he presents this to Gordon, and they go off on this attempt together. I like how vague I’m being. I would say that the most important thing for me to do in that is to show his confidence and his ease in these situations. I think it’s tempting to want to show the—to play the kind of bolder emotions, and those are definitely there, but they’re more fun if they’re a surprise.

Q) You talked about how you did a lot of research and that, I’m assuming you probably mean with comic book or movie or whatever, but can you kind of talk about that, and maybe was there anything particular you did pull, or anything that you did in particular to differentiate from the other versions?

A) Yes. I would say that I didn’t go watch a lot of the movies because I don’t find—in my past experience, I haven’t found watching other actors do the role has been really valuable, because part of the problem with that is is that you start to think that that version of the character is in the version that’s in front of you, and it’s not. They’ve written a new character, and he has new stakes and ambitions and things driving him, so I try not to go just watch other people. But what I did do was just, kind of, do as many Google searching of different comic sites and history sites and go through the arc of, the condensed, essentially Cliffs Notes versions of all the things that Harvey Dent has done and all the different iterations of Batman. One of the things that really kept standing out to me is that his father—they talk about him being abused as a child and that he was—he had these, maybe, psychotic episodes as a child that kind of foreshadow his capacity to become someone like Two-Face later. What I think was really good about that was that drives him to want to eradicate this type of behavior, and also why he has the potential to have such a visceral response to when he’s threatened or when he sees someone that he thinks is also abusive, because it’s this— it’s because that relationship that we have to our parents is so irrational, and I think it’s important that this character has this capability, this capacity to be really rational. And although he’s mostly Harvey Dent right now, he has under the surface these things. That’s the thing that I was able to pull, that was really valuable for me.

Q) You mentioned that Harvey will have scenes with Gordon, but will we see you interact with some of the other original Batman characters like Oswald, or Selina, or Bruce?

A) Not at this moment. I would be surprised if I don’t at some point, but right now—I mean, I think this first season of Gotham, as you guys, I’m sure, can tell, there’s just so much information that they have to bring in, and they’re bringing us all in at different times. I have this great mini arc here in the middle of the season, but they have other things that they have to bring to the table, and mostly the story is about this arc with Penguin and Fish and all that. So, I think that right now my story’s kind of contained, but come second season, I become a regular on the show, and that’s when I think you’ll mostly see—certainly back by the end of this season, and I don’t know in what capacity, but I think we’ll see a lot more of me branching out next season.

Q) I was wondering, was there pressure coming onto the show, knowing that fans and other actors want Harvey Dent on Gotham?

A) Yes. You can’t get too wrapped into it. Thankfully I’ve had enough experience with bad reviews in the past that I feel like that I can place that kind of stuff in the right compartment, but I think, yes, I’m a fan of Batman, and I’m a fan of these franchises, and I read comics, and so I definitely am sympathetic to people that want this show to live up to their expectations. Obviously the difficult thing about expectations is that everybody has different ones, and it’s difficult to assuage everyone. I can tell you one thing, actually, that I really debated, but I made it because I felt like it was a real fan choice was, in every version of every picture I saw of Harvey Dent, he was holding up Two-Face, he’s holding the gun in his right hand, he’s flipping the coin in his left, but I’m right handed. It’s difficult to flip a coin and do—sort of like rubbing your stomach and patting your head a little bit, you know, when you’re in the middle of a scene, and I was a little bit intimidated by the idea of using my less dominant hand because if I ever dropped the coin the take is ruined, but I did it. So, I wanted to make sure that if every picture was Two-Face, with the coin in his left hand, well darn it, I was going to put that coin in my left hand. So, I practiced all weekend, talking and flipping the coin, and I did all right, thankfully. So, I feel pretty good about it.

Q) You’ve kind of already hinted at it, how familiar are you with the episodes of Gotham that have already aired, and what are you most looking forward to bringing to your portrayals of one of the most classic characters in the Batman universe?

A) Well, I’m really familiar in the sense that I’ve watched them all. I’ve watched them all up until eight, which is just the most recent. I’m in it. I hope that Harvey is kind of like—I think Jim needs some help at this point. I hope that although Harvey Dent is not like a—I should be careful if I just say Harvey over and over, because there’s another major Harvey in this show, but the thing about Harvey Dent is you’ll see that he’s not the moral center that Jim Gordon is, but I do think that he’ll be a breath of fresh air. I think that he’s—Gordon needs like a teammate that he can trust, and I think he needs somebody else on his side, and I hope that people will enjoy the idea of seeing these two guys in their different ways of approaching it, but creating this kind of like allied chip.

Q) I know Harvey Dent and particularly Two-Face, they tend to live their lives by chance, that’s a big thing with them, so I’m wondering if that’s a philosophy you share in any way?

A) That’s a great question. Well, there’s a paradox with that. I think on one hand, as actors, there are—freelance in general, but certainly as an actor, I don’t know with anything I could be doing that would be more filled with the element of chance than doing this job, for my life. It has created the most astoundingly surprising scenarios for my life. I cannot tell you—I’m not unique is the thing, I have these just—I find them to be really extraordinarily strange situations, and people—that’s really normal in my business, and I think because of that I’m pretty methodical in a lot of other parts of my life. I really try to put down anchors in a lot of other areas, and that’s with my relationship, that’s with my friends, that’s with my family. I really try to be—keep those things as really constants in my life, and I think I plan a lot. Like, I make lists all the time, I’m one of those guys. So I think I try to limit as much of the chaos in my life, because there’s just so much with my work.

Q) Obviously we have a lot of knowledge about where Harvey ends up in becoming Two-Face, so I’m just curious, does knowing that, knowing where a character ends up, influence your portrayal at all of them?

A) I guess a part of me wants to speak a little bit to this before, because actually, in some ways it makes me want to remember to not play that, you know? I think it’s tempting to want to play up the areas where we are going to be—sometimes I think the challenge is to be patient. I don’t have to tell everybody in one episode who this guy’s going to be. In some ways they do that for me. Their writing is very good, and they’ve shown a lot of the different elements of who my character is, but hopefully—I think it’s going to be important for me to remember to be Harvey Dent right now, to be Harvey Dent now, and to be Two-Face when it’s time to be Two-Face, if I get the chance to be Two-Face. Hopefully I will.

Q) There were originally ten episodes, and you’re in the last two, I believe, and they were extended to twenty-two. Now have they started filming the rest of the episodes, and do you know how many that you’re going to be in?

A) Yes. Actually I think that, I might be mistaken, but I actually think that they were picked up for sixteen, originally, and then they got picked up for a back six, if that makes them twenty-two. Now I don’t know if that’s necessarily—it might be one of those things, as my mother would say, neither here nor there, but I think the idea, they had a much larger arc to this season and then they got picked up for these extra six. I think they’re in the process of, like they’re just about to start shooting Episode 14 right now, and I will be joining in for at least a couple of episodes at some point in these last eight, but I don’t really know when. I think I mentioned this earlier, that I become a regular in Season 2, so you’ll start seeing a lot more of me, come Season 2, which we all, of course, hope happens.

Q) I wondered if there’s anyone that you haven’t worked with yet that you’re really looking forward to working with?

A) Man, there’s a lot. I’ve gotten to work mostly with Ben McKenzie, and I’ve done a lot with Andrew Stewart-Jones and Victoria Cartagena, who are the people that play Montoya and Allen. I’ve gotten to work with Zabryna a little bit. I’ve gotten to work with Richard Kind, who’s just amazing. I just adore that guy, so funny. But I would say that—and I’ve gotten to meet off to the side, just in the hallways, I’ve gotten to meet Cory, and I’ve gotten to meet—I mean I don’t want to go through everyone, but basically, Sean and David and Camren, I’ve gotten to meet all them, but I haven’t met Robin Lord Taylor, and I haven’t met Jada Pinkett Smith yet. So, Robin and I have some mutual friends, and I’m looking forward to meeting him, and his character has just been so engaging, you know? And Jada, too, I mean there’s so many performances but people I think, rightly, have been really pouring out his performance, because he’s just really fascinating.

Q) I wanted to find out if maybe you could tell us a little bit about filming your first episode of Gotham, and maybe anything that sticks out for you from a production, filming standpoint, memorable scene, anything you could speak about in that regard?

A) Yes. Well, that first day was really exciting because, I think I mentioned earlier, it was just a full day. I would say that, I mean, honestly, this may sound a little cliché, but walking into the GCPD headquarters is a really extraordinary experience. I mean that structure is huge. They built a three-story open-aired structure, where you can shoot on multiple—it’s actually four stories, I’m sorry, it’s four stories and you can shoot on three different levels all across the stage. And it’s like—and, like, detail, you know? I think what’s exciting of getting onto shows like this is you—just the production value is so high. So in addition to just the sets being gorgeous and the costumes being gorgeous, that just makes you as an actor feel so—it makes you feel important. It makes you feel powerful wearing really amazing suits and walking in this great office that was probably just built the day before. What else was I going to say? I’m starting to get myself off track there for a second. I think what I was going to say was that it’s exciting to be a part of a show that you know the network and the studio are really behind. I guess that’s ultimately at the end of it, that’s what I really remember from that first day is like, “Wow, there is just a lot of commitment to the show, can you just see it in all the detail.”

http://starrymag.com/?p=4789

- 'Harvey Dent' será personaje regular en la S2:

En el episodio del próximo lunes, 17 de Noviembre, "Gotham" introducirá al mítico personaje de los cómics 'Harvey Dent' aka 'Dos Caras', interpretado por el actor Nicholas D'Agosto.

Ha sido precisamente el actor quien, a través de una entrevista telefónica con la prensa, ha hablado sobre el episodio, su personaje y ha revelado que el personaje se convertirá en regular en la segunda temporada:

Sobre cuánto estará 'Harvey Dent' en Gotham.- "Tengo este estupendo mi-arco aquí a mitad de este te,porada, pero los escritores tienen otras cosas que quieren poner sobre la mesa. Mayormente la historia va sobre este arco con 'el Pingüino', 'Fish' y todo eso. Ahora mismo mi historia está un poco contenida. Cuando llegue la segunda temporada, me convierto en regular en la serie. Así es que creo que veremos mucho más de mí abriéndome horizontes la próxima temporada, lo que todos esperamos que ocurra".

Sobre cuándo lo veremos regresar en esta temporada.- "Me uniré de nuevo por al menos un par de episodios más en estos últimos ocho, pero no sé realmente cuándo".

Sobre si empezaremos a ver la semilla del futuro 'Dos Caras' desde el principio.- "Él se pone a sí mismo en una posicion en la que pone mucho en el límite. Algunas de las cosas que aparecen presagian quién será finalmente."

http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/H ... 2-36104729
http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/gotham_seas ... ar-2014-11

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- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent", "Dynamic Duo" Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2JxTu3rRcw



- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "What's Wrong With You?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJATOfP4voU


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "Do You Believe Her":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d31FUSIh6EA


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "A Bet Worth Making":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeK5ee2e5cw


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "Forgive Me For The Intrusion":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxQ3ipZrRY


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "Introducing Harvey Dent":

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


- GOTHAM | 1.09 "Harvey Dent" Clip "People Don't Fight With Gloves On":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBB4BNy57LA

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- Gotham's Erin Richards Dishes on Barbara's ‘Demons,’ Possibly Rekindling Montoya Affair (The Wrap):

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


- Gotham's Nicholas D'Agosto on Becoming Two Face: ‘I Would Be Surprised If It Didn't’ Happen (The Wrap):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5DcuNDzqU8




- Nicholas D'Agosto Hace la voltereta por el papel de 'Harvey Dent' (CBR):

Nicholas D'Agosto Hace la voltereta por el papel de 'Harvey Dent'
Scott Huver 17 Nov, 2014

Actor Nicholas D'Agosto just won the coin toss.

The latest actor to join Fox's "Gotham" as the proto-version of one of the colorful psychopaths who will eventually menace Batman, D'Agosto makes his debut as Harvey Dent -- the dashing, crusading district attorney destined to have his psyche split in two when half his face is scarred, assuming the persona of the duality-obsessed master criminal Two-Face -- on the show's Nov. 17 episode.

But for now, as D'Agosto -- most recently seen as obstetrician Ethan Haas on Showtime's "Masters of Sex" -- is playing Dent on the side of the angels, a rare ally in young cop Jim Gordon's battle for Gotham City's corrupt soul, as the actor revealed in a recent conference call with the press.

On his particular spin on the Harvey Dent role:

Nicholas D'Agosto: I think what I bring to this version of Harvey Dent -- the actor can bring what they can from other iterations of the franchise, but at the end of the day, they've just got to play what's in front of them, play what's on the page. What was on this page was, there's this real ambition for this guy who is really to the point of being almost a little reckless, and he puts himself in a position where he puts a lot on the line. Some of the things that come out of that foreshadow who he will eventually be, the potential that he has to become Two-Face later.

I would say that, for good or ill, I guess I'm a really ambitious, merciless, rage-filled guy. Ultimately what I bring to this role, and what this role was kind of requiring, was someone that can be a kind and genuine and sincere person, a sympathetic character, and at the same time, someone whose ambition can kind of bring them into areas that maybe could potentially cross a line.

On the challenge of playing Harvey Dent while not telegraphing Two-Face:

A lot of actors fight -- I certainly fight it -- the tendency to want to show the capacity for being, in this case, Two-Face. I think the most important thing I had to do, and I did this with the help of the directors and producers and everybody around as we, at the eleventh hour, sculpted the beginning of this guy, was to just be smooth and easy and likable and let things roll off my back. He gets himself involved in some pretty intense, high-stakes situations. He walks right in with a loaded gun -- not literally, but he presents this to Gordon and they go off on this attempt together. I like how vague I'm being! I would say that the most important thing for me to do in that is to show his confidence and his ease in these situations. I think it's tempting to want to play the kind of bolder emotions, and those are definitely there, but they're more fun if they're a surprise.

I think it's tempting to want to play up the areas where we are going. Sometimes, I think the challenge is to be patient. I don't have to tell everybody in one episode who this guy's going to be. In some ways, they do that for me. Their writing is very good, and they've shown a lot of the different elements of who my character is, but I think it's going to be important for me to remember to be Harvey Dent right now, and to be Two-Face when it's time to be Two-Face -- if I get the chance to be Two-Face. Hopefully I will.

On his research into the role:

I would say that I didn't go watch a lot of the movies, because in my past experience I haven't found watching other actors do the role has been really valuable. Part of the problem with that is that you start to think that that version of the character is in the version that's in front of you, and it's not. They've written a new character, and he has new stakes and ambitions and things driving him, so I try not to go just watch other people. But what I did do was just do as many Google searches of different comic sites and history sites and go through the condensed, essentially Cliffs Notes versions of all the things that Harvey Dent has done, and all the different iterations of Batman.

One of the things that really kept standing out to me is that his father -- they talk about him being abused as a child, and that he had these, maybe, psychotic episodes as a child that kind of foreshadow his capacity to become someone like Two-Face later. What I think was really good about that was, that drives him to want to eradicate this type of behavior, and also [explains] why he has the potential to have such a visceral response when he's threatened or when he sees someone that he thinks is also abusive, because that relationship that we have to our parents is so irrational. And I think it's important that this character has this capability to be really rational. Although he's mostly Harvey Dent right now, he has, under the surface, these things. That's the thing that I was able to pull that was really valuable for me.

On his interactions with other members of "Gotham's" emerging rogues gallery:

I would be surprised if I don't [interact with them] at some point, but right now, I think in this first season of "Gotham" -- as you guys, I'm sure, can tell -- there's just so much information that they have to bring in, and they're bringing us all in at different times. I have this great mini-arc here in the middle of the season, but they have other things that they have to bring to the table. Mostly, the story is about this arc with Penguin and Fish and all that. So I think that right now, my story's kind of contained, but come second season, I become a regular on the show, and that's when I think you'll mostly see -- certainly by the end of this season, and I don't know in what capacity -- a lot more of me branching out next season.

On bringing a subtle, very specific nod to the comics to the screen:

I can tell you one thing that I really debated, but I made [the decision to do it] because I felt like it was a real fan choice: In every version of every picture I saw of Harvey Dent, Two-Face, he's holding the gun in his right hand, he's flipping the coin in his left, but I'm right handed. It's difficult -- sort of like rubbing your stomach and patting your head a little bit when you're in the middle of a scene, and I was a little bit intimidated by the idea of using my less dominant hand, because if I ever dropped the coin the take is ruined, but I did it. I wanted to make sure that if every picture was Two-Face, with the coin in his left hand, well darn it, I was going to put that coin in my left hand. So, I practiced all weekend, talking and flipping the coin, and I did all right, thankfully. I feel pretty good about it.

On how Harvey Dent fits into the established world of "Gotham":

I think Jim needs some help at this point. The thing about Harvey Dent is -- you'll see that he's not the moral center that Jim Gordon is, but I do think that he'll be a breath of fresh air. Gordon needs like a teammate that he can trust. I think he needs somebody else on his side, and I hope that people will enjoy the idea of seeing these two guys in their different ways of approaching it, but creating this kind of like alliance.

On living a life dictated by chance:

As an actor, I don't know of anything I could be doing that would be more filled with the element of chance than doing this job. It has created the most astoundingly surprising scenarios for my life. I cannot tell you -- I'm not unique is the thing -- I find them to be really extraordinarily strange situations, and that's really normal in my business. I think because of that, I'm pretty methodical in a lot of other parts of my life. I really try to put down anchors in a lot of other areas -- that's with my relationship, that's with my friends, that's with my family. I really try to keep those things as constants in my life, and I think I plan a lot. I make lists all the time, I'm one of those guys. I think I try to limit as much of the chaos in my life [as possible], because there's just so much with my work.

On his first day on the set:

Honestly, this may sound a little cliché, but walking into the GCPD headquarters is a really extraordinary experience. That structure is huge. They built a four-story, open-aired structure, where you can shoot on three different levels, all across the stage. I think what's exciting of getting onto shows like this is just that the production value is so high. In addition to just the sets being gorgeous and the costumes being gorgeous, that just makes you, as an actor, feel important. It makes you feel powerful, wearing really amazing suits and walking in this great office that was probably just built the day before. It's exciting to be a part of a show that you know the network and the studio are really behind. That's what I really remember from that first day! "Wow, there is just a lot of commitment to the show, and you just see it in all the detail."

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- Nicholas D’Agosto habla sobre el llevar las múltiples personalidades de 'Harvey Dent' a la Ciudad de la Oscuridad (seat24f):

Nicholas D’Agosto habla sobre el llevar las múltiples personalidades de 'Harvey Dent' a la Ciudad de la Oscuridad
por Tiffany Vogt 17 Noviembre, 2014

The thing about Harvey Dent is that he wants so desperately to be the hero, and yet has this other side to him that yearns to be free of societal conventions. So the duality inherent in him makes Harvey Dent a wild card. He can be the hero or he can be the doom to all those around him. But just how will GOTHAM choose to bring Harvey Dent into their topsy-turvy world of dark politics mixed with murder and mayhem? That’s the fun surprise coming up.

In a recent press conference call, star Nicholas D’Agosto talked about what role Harvey Dent has to play in this season of GOTHAM.

What have been some of the challenges you’ve faced taking on Harvey?
NICHOLAS: Wow. I could sit here and wax for a long time about it. I mean, it’s been so exciting, mostly, but I would say that the biggest challenges probably were just catching up to the timeline of this thing. This may be jumping into some slightly different answers to other questions, but when I first found out about this audition, I was auditioning for something else, and then the casting office wasn’t aware that I was available because I was working on another project, and they wanted me to come in for Harvey Dent later that night, and I hadn’t looked at any of the material, so we pushed it to the following morning. So, Thursday, I got the material. Friday morning I went out for the project. I was working on another project for a little bit, and then Tuesday I got the official word that I got the job. Wednesday, the contract was finalized. Thursday, I flew to New York. Friday, I was getting fit for wardrobe and everything, and then Monday and Tuesday, I pretty much shot all of my scenes for this first episode within those two days. It was just a whirlwind process, and I had a lot to prepare. I had to do all of my research and get my full comprehensive view of my approach in a very short amount of time. So it was a real thrill, but that was probably the biggest challenge. The acting part is just fun, at that point it’s just a good time, but getting up to that point, I would say, was the biggest challenge. But truly, the set, everybody there, for being such a dark city, GOTHAM, it’s a really, really sweet group of people, very welcoming.

Was there anything then that you added to this role that wasn’t originally scripted for you?
NICHOLAS: I don’t know if I could say that. I would say that what II think what I bring to this version of Harvey Dent, which again, the actor can bring what they can from other iterations of the franchise, but at the end of the day they’ve just got to play what’s in front of them, play what’s on the page. What was on this page was, there’s this real ambition for this guy, this guy is really to the point of being almost a little reckless, and he puts himself in a position where he puts a lot on the line. Some of the things that come out of that foreshadow who he will eventually be, the potential that he has to become Two-Face later. I would say that, for good or ill, I guess I’m a really ambitious, merciless, rage-filled guy. I would say that ultimately what I bring to this role and what this role was kind of requiring was someone that can be a kind and genuine and sincere person, a sympathetic character; and at the same time someone who’s ambition can kind of bring them into areas that maybe could potentially cross a line.

What’s the most important thing you feel you need to convey with your performance?
NICHOLAS: I think probably the tendency that — I think a lot of actors fight this, I certainly fight it — is the tendency to want to show the capacity for being, and in this case it would be the capacity for being Two-Face. I think the most important thing I had to do, and I did this with the help of the directors and producers and everybody around as we, at the eleventh hour, sculpted the beginning of this guy. I think it was really important for me to just be smooth and easy and likeable and things roll off my back, you know? He gets himself involved in some pretty intense, high-stakes situations. You know, he kind of walks right in with a loaded gun, and — not literally — but he presents this to Gordon, and they go off on this attempt together. I like how vague I’m being. I would say that the most important thing for me to do in that is to show his confidence and his ease in these situations. I think it’s tempting to want to play the kind of bolder emotions, and those are definitely there, but they’re more fun if they’re a surprise.

Was there anything particular that you pulled from the comics, or anything that you did in particular to differentiate from the other versions?
NICHOLAS: Yes. I would say that I didn’t go watch a lot of the movies because, in my past experience, I haven’t found watching other actors do the role has been really valuable, because part of the problem with that is is that you start to think that that version of the character is in the version that’s in front of you, and it’s not. They’ve written a new character, and he has new stakes and ambitions and things driving him, so I try not to go just watch other people. But what I did do was just, kind of, do as many Google searching of different comic sites and history sites and go through the arc of, the condensed, essentially Cliffs Notes versions of all the things that Harvey Dent has done and all the different iterations of Batman. One of the things that really kept standing out to me is that his father—they talk about him being abused as a child and that he had these, maybe, psychotic episodes as a child that kind of foreshadow his capacity to become someone like Two-Face later. What I think was really good about that was that drives him to want to eradicate this type of behavior, and also why he has the potential to have such a visceral response to when he’s threatened or when he sees someone that he thinks is also abusive, because it’s that relationship that we have to our parents is so irrational, and I think it’s important that this character has this capability, this capacity to be really rational. And although he’s mostly Harvey Dent right now, he has under the surface these things. That’s the thing that I was able to pull, that was really valuable for me.

Will we see you interact with some of the other original Batman characters like Oswald, or Selena, or Bruce?
NICHOLAS: Not at this moment. I would be surprised if I don’t at some point, but right now—I mean, I think this first season of GOTHAM, as you guys, I’m sure, can tell, there’s just so much information that they have to bring in, and they’re bringing us all in at different times. I have this great mini arc here in the middle of the season, but they have other things that they have to bring to the table, and mostly the story is about this arc with Penguin and Fish and all that. So, I think that right now my story’s kind of contained, but come second season, I become a regular on the show, and that’s when I think you’ll mostly see—certainly back by the end of this season, and I don’t know in what capacity, but I think we’ll see a lot more of me branching out next season.

Was there pressure coming onto the show, knowing that fans and other actors want Harvey Dent on GOTHAM?
NICHOLAS: Yes. You can’t get too wrapped into it. Thankfully I’ve had enough experience with bad reviews in the past that I feel like that I can place that kind of stuff in the right compartment, but I think, yes, I’m a fan of Batman, and I’m a fan of these franchises, and I read comics, and so I definitely am sympathetic to people that want this show to live up to their expectations. Obviously the difficult thing about expectations is that everybody has different ones, and it’s difficult to assuage everyone. I can tell you one thing, actually, that I really debated, but I made it because I felt like it was a real fan choice was, in every version of every picture I saw of Harvey Dent, he was holding up Two-Face, he’s holding the gun in his right hand, he’s flipping the coin in his left, but I’m right handed. It’s difficult to flip a coin and do—sort of like rubbing your stomach and patting your head a little bit, you know, when you’re in the middle of a scene, and I was a little bit intimidated by the idea of using my less dominant hand because if I ever dropped the coin the take is ruined, but I did it. So, I wanted to make sure that if every picture was Two-Face, with the coin in his left hand, well darn it, I was going to put that coin in my left hand. So, I practiced all weekend, talking and flipping the coin, and I did all right, thankfully. So, I feel pretty good about it.

How familiar are you with the episodes of GOTHAM that have already aired, and what are you most looking forward to bringing to your portrayals of one of the most classic characters in the Batman universe?
NICHOLAS: Well, I’m really familiar in the sense that I’ve watched them all. I’ve watched them all up until eight, which is just the most recent. I’m in it. I think Jim needs some help at this point. I hope that although Harvey Dent is not like a—I should be careful if I just say Harvey over and over, because there’s another major Harvey in this show, but the thing about Harvey Dent is you’ll see that he’s not the moral center that Jim Gordon is, but I do think that he’ll be a breath of fresh air. I think that Gordon needs like a teammate that he can trust, and I think he needs somebody else on his side, and I hope that people will enjoy the idea of seeing these two guys in their different ways of approaching it, but creating this kind of like allied chip.

Harvey Dent and particularly Two-Face, they tend to live their lives by chance, that’s a big thing with them, so I’m wondering if that’s a philosophy you share in any way.
NICHOLAS: That’s a great question. Well, there’s a paradox with that. I think on one hand, as actors, there are—freelance in general, but certainly as an actor, I don’t know with anything I could be doing that would be more filled with the element of chance than doing this job, for my life. It has created the most astoundingly surprising scenarios for my life. I cannot tell you—I’m not unique is the thing, I find them to be really extraordinarily strange situations, and that’s really normal in my business, and I think because of that I’m pretty methodical in a lot of other parts of my life. I really try to put down anchors in a lot of other areas, and that’s with my relationship, that’s with my friends, that’s with my family. I really try to keep those things as really constants in my life, and I plan a lot. Like, I make lists all the time, I’m one of those guys. So I think I try to limit as much of the chaos in my life, because there’s just so much with my work.

Does knowing that, knowing where a character ends up, influence your portrayal at all of them?
NICHOLAS: Yes, I guess a part of me wants to speak a little bit to this before, because actually, in some ways it makes me want to remember to not play that, you know? I think it’s tempting to want to play up the areas where we are going to be. Sometimes I think the challenge is to be patient. I don’t have to tell everybody in one episode who this guy’s going to be. In some ways they do that for me. Their writing is very good, and they’ve shown a lot of the different elements of who my character is, but hopefully, I think it’s going to be important for me to remember to be Harvey Dent right now, to be Harvey Dent now, and to be Two-Face when it’s time to be Two-Face, if I get the chance to be Two-Face. Hopefully I will.

Do you know how many episodes that you’re going to be in?
NICHOLAS: Yes. Actually I think that, I might be mistaken, but I actually think that they were picked up for sixteen, originally, and then they got picked up for a back six, if that makes them twenty-two. Now I don’t know if that’s necessarily—it might be one of those things, as my mother would say, neither here nor there, but I think the idea, they had a much larger arc to this season and then they got picked up for these extra six. I think they’re in the process of, like they’re just about to start shooting Episode 14 right now, and I will be joining in for at least a couple of episodes at some point in these last eight, but I don’t really know when. I think I mentioned this earlier, that I become a regular in Season 2, so you’ll start seeing a lot more of me, come Season 2, which we all, of course, hope happens.

Is there’s anyone that you haven’t worked with yet that you’re really looking forward to working with.
NICHOLAS: Man, there’s a lot. I can say that I’ve actually. So, I’ve gotten to work mostly with Ben McKenzie, and I’ve done a lot with Andrew Stewart-Jones and Victoria Cartagena, who are the people that play Montoya and Allen. I’ve gotten to work with Zabryna a little bit. I’ve gotten to work with Richard Kind, who’s just amazing. I just adore that guy, so funny. But I would say that I’ve gotten to meet off to the side, just in the hallways, I’ve gotten to meet Cory, and I’ve gotten to meet—I mean I don’t want to go through everyone, but basically, Sean and David and Cameron, I’ve gotten to meet all them, but I haven’t met Robin Lord Taylor, and I haven’t met Jada Pinkett Smith yet. So, Robin and I have some mutual friends, and I’m looking forward to meeting him, and his character has just been so engaging, you know? And Jada, too, I mean there’s so many performances but people I think, rightly, have been really pouring out his performance, because he’s just really fascinating.

What was it like filming your first episode of GOTHAM, and maybe anything that sticks out for you from a production, filming standpoint, memorable scene, anything you could speak about in that regard.
NICHOLAS: Yes. Well, that first day was really exciting because, I think I mentioned earlier, it was just a full day. I would say that, I mean, honestly, this may sound a little cliché, but walking into the GCPD headquarters is a really extraordinary experience. I mean that structure is huge. They built a three-story open-aired structure, where you can shoot on multiple—it’s actually four stories, I’m sorry, it’s four stories and you can shoot on three different levels all across the stage. And it’s like—and, like, detail, you know? I think what’s exciting of getting onto shows like this is you—just the production value is so high, you know? So in addition to just the sets being gorgeous and the costumes being gorgeous, that just makes you as an actor feel so—it makes you feel important. It makes you feel powerful wearing really amazing suits and walking in this great office that was probably just built the day before. What else was I going to say? I’m starting to get myself off track there for a second. I think what I was going to say was that it’s exciting to be a part of a show that you know the network and the studio are really behind. I guess that’s ultimately at the end of it, that’s what I really remember from that first day is like, “Wow, there is just a lot of commitment to the show, can you just see it in all the detail.”

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- Bruno Heller: El matar personajes icónicos no está completamente fuera del tablero (EW):

Bruno Heller: El matar personajes icónicos no está completamente fuera del tablero
Por James Hibberd 20 Nov, 2014 at 12:02PM

Could Gotham break from Batman canon and kill off one of its iconic characters?

It’s not impossible. Showrunner Bruno Heller reveals that while he’s very reluctant to lose any cast member, his plan is to establish the Fox prequel series as firmly part of the Batman canon — and then start “messing with people’s minds” in unexpected ways.

Below is an in-depth Q&A with Heller (Rome, The Mentalist), where we talk about how his break-out series has evolved from its earliest episodes, his reasoning behind the show’s villain strategy, and whether canonical characters are truly safe. (A few quotes from this interview appeared in previous stories this week, but this is the first time the entire conversation has been published).

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Gotham feels like it started strong and is getting progressively better — which I guess is another way of saying the show seems to be creatively evolving. Is that accurate? And if so, how has the show evolved from your perspective?
Bruno Heller: “Evolving” is one word for it. “Getting it right” is another. Learning. Seeing what works and what doesn’t, and what we have fun doing. So yeah, it’s evolving. There really is no template for this show. There is no other show that’s in this same ballpark. It’s like a circus. There’s lots of different performances and acts. One minute it’s an acrobat flying above your head, the next it’s clowns, and there might be a juggler coming down the road. For me, as long as the audience feels like you’re really working hard to entertain them, and trying new stuff, and trying stuff that might not even work as well as you’d hoped it would, as long as you’re doing it with sincerity and energy and joy, then the show will work. And that’s really the evolution — characters finding the nut of their performance, DPs, directors and writers finding what works best.

What are your favorite aspects of the show, and what are you still playing with?
I would say my favorite aspects of the show are all those that are not within my purview — what [director] Danny Cannon and the DPs have done visually with the show that allows for big theatrical performances and small detail. So we get that graphic novel sense of possibility, but also the emotional tug of a real story. I love the fact that characters as big as Fish Mooney and The Penguin can exist in same world as more down-to-earth people like Jim Gordon; that we can be tragic and comedic in the same scene. That’s what I love most of all — Gotham, the world the story is in. Having said that: Fish Mooney is the one character I invented and we were so lucky to get somebody as genius as Jada Pinkett Smith. There are very few actresses that can pull that performance off.

The big critic note when the show launched was that there were too many major villains too soon. And now there’s Harvey Dent, and we’ve heard Mr. Freeze and Scarecrow are still to come. Is it fair to say that you disagree with that assessment — that the show should have fewer pieces on the chess board at the same time?
I never disagree with criticism. No point. We front-loaded [the show with iconic characters], which we had to do, both for story purposes and marketing purposes. We had to let people know it’s not just a hum-drum police procedural, it’s about these larger-than-life characters. If you do that you can’t just say, ‘Here’s one larger-than-life character, now wait for next season.’ Once we introduced those initial characters—Penguin, Riddler, Ivy, Selina—then we slowed down with those aspects and we’re bringing in those iconic D.C characters in a much more measured way, which was always the intention. You have to have that amount of spice in the show to make it pop and different. Once the wheels are turning, it’s much easier to bring those characters in in subtle, organic ways. That’s the plan, anyway.

Can you give us a sense of your plan for Scarecrow? I think some were surprised to hear he would still be a kid because it’s felt like the kids’ storylines have been the toughest to make dramatic and integrate with the rest of the show.
Well, quite. And I don’t want to give too much of that story away. But this is very much about the origin stories. We’re going to do a prenatal origin story for Robin down the line. This is not a kid being a loony Scarecrow; this is a couple episodes about how that character has evolved—everyone’s character is formed in their childhood to some degree or another. His father is involved, as is part of the [character's] mythology

My antenna went up at “prenatal Robin.” Do you mean literally prenatal?
There are no MRIs involved. There’s an episode coming up where we learn how Robin’s parents got together.

We only saw Ivy once, in the premiere, are there plans to bring her back around?
She’ll be back. Absolutely.

Ra’s al Ghul is coming to Arrow on The CW, any chance of the character coming to your show too? Or does Ra’s al Ghul being on Arrow preclude him from joining Gotham?
It doesn’t preclude him from joining Gotham, but now you’re deep into [DC Comics chief] Geoff Johns’ territory, so you’d have to ask him. Where was Ra’s al Ghul in this particular juncture in Batman’s life? He was probably a teenager as well, with Mrs. al Ghul making him sandwiches and sending him off to Ghul school.

Harley Quinn is the sidekick of the Joker — does her coming into the show mean he will appear this season in some form?
We haven’t got Harley Quinn in it. Riddler’s girlfriend is coming up. And Harley Quinn is definitely planned for later on, but so far no.

So Harley Quinn won’t be this season then? There were reports…
One of the things about the size and scope of this production is that — it’s not that there’s lots of chefs in the kitchen, but there’s a lot of people with opinions and views and inside knowledge. That aspect of the show, which characters to use and when, is a source of constant discussion. And that may well have been an issue that came up and was dropped. For me it’s about what you said earlier — you can’t just keep pumping these characters into the show in a comic book sort of way because you get the Super Friends effect — which isn’t a bad effect, but then you have spaceships and need to go underwater and get wacky villains and the rest of it. You have to work as a character piece first. First it has to be real.

When Fox ordered more episodes (bumping the first season from 16 to 22) it’s interesting because the reaction among some fans was “Oh no!” The assumption among more production-savvy readers is the fewer episodes you have to make on these sort of serialized high-wire genre shows, the better you can make them. What was your reaction to getting loaded up to a full season?
It’s a bit like that tightrope walker who walks across one building and then they say you got to walk across that other building as well. Here’s the thing, and I say this with modesty because it’s not me, but Warner Bros. and Danny and the production machinery: It’s a challenge. But it’s a challenge the writers room and the production can readily rise to. Those production-savvy readers are not wrong about the challenges involved. When you’re network TV you naturally take into account the possibility there might be a larger order. That’s the business you’re in. It’s an audience business. It’s not about us being precious about our art. It’s about delivering a show people want to watch. So we were thrilled they wanted six more — and we’ll get a long sleep afterwards.

Before Gotham premiered there was some discussion about how the show cannot kill any members of its cast of iconic characters, since the story is a prequel. And you had a great reply to that by saying, “It’s sad thing if you can only generate suspense by killing people.” I’m wondering now that you’ve dug more into the season and are juggling all these characters, with some being more interesting than others, whether there’s a part of you that’s like, “You know, what if we did?” Or is it just iron clad that you can’t deviate that far from canon?
I wouldn’t say it’s iron clad. You’d need a damn good reason to do it and a damn good end game to justify it. We’re certainly just learning the ropes at this stage. Not to be modest about it, but we’re still learning how to do a show this big. I’m always deeply reluctant to kill off characters simply for the shock value of killing them off. I’m not averse to cheap tricks. But apart from anything else, this season literally every actor has come through and [performed really strong]. I would hate to lose any of them. Killing off Sean Bean in the first season of Game of Thrones made everyone go, “Oh, what a good idea that is!” But I don’t think it’s a good idea if you’ve got Sean Bean. The bad one was on Deadwood, when they had David Carradine doing that marvelous Wild Bill Hickok, and then he was gone.

I agree on Carradine, it did feel like that character was gone too soon.
I’m going to put you on the spot: Who would you kill?

It’s not that there’s anybody in particular that I would kill off. But I would say the killing of a so-called un-killable character would add a greater layer of suspense when any of those characters are in jeopardy after that — because the message has been sent to the audience that, “You think you know how this story is going to go, but you’re wrong because we’re not following the train tracks that you already know so well.“
That is a very good point and an actor somewhere is cursing you. You’re absolutely right. One of the things about doing the extra six episodes, and hopefully being successful enough to get a season two, is that once we’re up and running, that kind of narrative playfulness — playing with the audience’s expectations — is going to be much more a part of the show. For instance: Who will turn out to be The Joker? Those kind of games you can only get into once you have the audience’s trust and the train is rolling down the tracks. We want to establish the real deal — that this is the canonical Gotham — and then start messing with people’s minds.

I like the sound of that! This season is about the rise of The Penguin. Which villain has the best odds of being the focus of season 2?
I can’t tell you at this stage because there’s some wonderful possibilities and we have to talk to Fox and Warner Bros. about who that should be. But back to the circus analogy: It won’t be one guy or gal. Thematically it will be around one of those great iconic characters, but it won’t be solely concerned with one of them.

What can we expect, story wise, for the rest of the season?
What I would say [mild spoilers] is that at a certain point, Gordon says, ‘Screw it. I’m tired of playing it safe and being cautious. I’m going to go full throttle to bring down the corrupt police administration. And things start to move fast and furious and urgent. The stakes keep rising. And just when Jim thinks he’s achieved a certain level of success against the powers-that-be, they pull a vicious table-turn on him that will play out in the last episodes of the season in a very big, scary theatrical way.

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- Gotham 1.10 Promo "LoveCraft" Promo - Fall Finale- (HD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGExCqV5uIc


Añadidos los enlaces y rátings del 1.09 "Harvey Dent". Podéis encontrarlos AQUÍ

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- GOTHAM | 1.10 "Lovecraft" Clip "This Is A Panic Move":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFqIfM42Klk


- GOTHAM | 1.10 "Lovecraft" Clip "She Wants Your Head":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuU9UtF_fM


- GOTHAM | 1.10 "Lovecraft" Clip "You Were Wrong":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ch04_wglGE


- GOTHAM | 1.10 "Lovecraft" Clip "Stay Cool Now, Ivy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hx1FG6s1Ks


- GOTHAM | 1.10 "Lovecraft" Clip "Please Come In":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFyv25YjVA

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- Gotham: Meet Robin Lord Taylor (Oswald Cobblepot) (Gotham On 5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaDXMGb8HI


- Gotham: Meet Cory Michael Smith (Edward Nygma) (Gotham On 5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gS_Kmh4s3I



- Gotham: David Mazouz - My favourite Batman is Christian Bale (Gotham On 5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kZZD37YRw


- Gotham interview - David Mazouz: Batman would beat Superman in a fight (Gotham On 5):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEorJFXkO7c




- GOTHAM "Something Fishy" Featurette:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-lwFasfUwc

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- Productor ejecutivo de Gotham explica cómo ‘Game of Thrones’ y ‘Walking Dead’ han cambiado los finales para todo el mundo (The Wrap):

Productor ejecutivo de Gotham explica cómo ‘Game of Thrones’ y ‘Walking Dead’ han cambiado los finales para todo el mundo
Por Tony Maglio 24 Noviembre, 2014 @ 7:00 am

John Stephens teases Monday's Fox fall finale for TheWrap, and explains why knowing what to expect is “death now for a TV show”

Fox's Batman prequel has enjoyed an excellent start to its freshman season, a run so far of 10 episodes that will come to a (temporary) close with its fall finale on Monday night.

“Gotham's” ratings success hasn't been lost on the network, the industry, or the show's production team. Ordinarily, executive producers avoid questions about the Nielsen numbers — good or bad — but John Stephens (also of “Gilmore Girls” fame) and company have a hit on their hands, and he's willing to address that they know it.

“As soon as you know you're doing well enough, that there's an audience for it — then you're like, ‘OK, that's great,” Stephens told TheWrap. “Everybody feels it. It energizes everyone on the set — from the crew, the actors, everyone.

“It has a complete effect upon the morale of the people who work on the show,” he continued. “And because of that, the product gets better. It helps … a 22-episode season, it's a march.”

“Gotham” wasn't originally ordered with 22 episodes. And before the show debuted, creator Bruno Heller and executive producer Danny Cannon told TheWrap they would have preferred even fewer than the original 16 episode count. But the network's vote of confidence is not all bad — aside from forcing the cast and crew to cancel their spring vacations.

“Rather than stretching out material, it actually allowed us to come out with new storylines and place them inside the order, that we probably would have pushed to Season 2,” Stephens explained.

Plus, the endpoint of Season 1 has remained as originally planned, he added. Thanks to highly popular cable dramas, season finales across all of TV are more important than ever before, Stephens revealed.

“We've come to expect and we like those shows like ‘Game of Thrones’ or ‘Walking Dead’ where they'll end the season and something will happen that will be like a paradigm shift,” he said. “And you're going, ‘Oh my God, this show that I'm going to keep watching has not been the show I've been watching.’

“It's taking the characters you have and turning them or adjusting them in some way that you've never seen them before,” he continued. “So that the audience never has that sense of, ‘Oh, I know what to expect.’ Because that's the death now for a TV show.”

Actually, “Gotham” hasn't changed much at all from Heller's original conception through present day, though Stephens admitted that going forward, audibles from the writing room and production offices will become a little bit more prevalent on screen.

One noticeable adjustment is that the comic book drama is going to become more serialized than procedural, or in other words, more “crime saga” than “case of the week” as it has been.

Half of that decision stems from individual fictionalized Gotham P.D. cases organically coming together better than the producers envisioned, Stephens said. The other reason is simply that the serialized stuff played better to the audience.

On Monday's fall finale, “Gotham” will introduce Larissa Diaz, a.k.a. Copperhead (Lesley-Ann Brandt), the latest in a long line of known quantities from the DC Universe making their way onto the Fox show early. ”We definitely went for it Season 1,” Stephens admitted of the crop of characters they've introduced already. And Copperhead won't be the last, he teased, as the final DC biggie in this 22-episode run will be inserted into Episode 14 (which, at the time of our interview, just began filming) or 15, then they're going to take a break from that deluge until Season 2.

A new face aside, Stephens teased that Monday's fall finale episode will hold an “elaboration” of the relationship between two main characters that were introduced in the pilot — the young Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle.

“I think people who are fans of the comic books will see all of the shades of Batman and Catwoman that they'll know from later in life,” Stephens said. “We'll also peel back another onion layer of the Wayne Industries mystery that we have planted a couple of times in the season.”


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- Productor Ejecutivo de Gotham EP habla sobre el triste destino de Jim, la ascensión de Arkham, el vínculo entre Bat/Cat, un 'Oscuro' giro y el camino entendido (TVLine):

Productor Ejecutivo de Gotham EP habla sobre el triste destino de Jim, la ascensión de Arkham, el vínculo entre Bat/Cat, un 'Oscuro' giro y el camino entendido
Por Matt Webb Mitovich / 24 Noviembre 2014, 8:29 AM PST

Fox’s Gotham presents its fall finale tonight at 8/7, capping a run of strong episodes that gave the freshman drama some much-needed creative momentum. In turn, ratings have stabilized, regularly outdrawing its equally buzzy lead-out, the sophomore spooker Sleepy Hollow.

With an eye on this week’s pre-holiday climax, TVLine invited executive producer Danny Cannon to survey Gotham‘s strengths-to-date and tease a bit of what (and who) is to come.

TVLINE | Beyond the pilot, was there a particular episode which, for you, really clicked and made you say, “This is the origin series that TV both deserves and needs right now”?
I’ve got to say, I felt very confident after the pilot. It’s a little scary going into the pilot because you have such a short amount of time to prep, and it’s such a big undertaking. But it was during the shooting of the pilot, when I saw our characters in the clothes and saw the world that we created, that it clicked for me. I knew from that point on that it would be OK if we just stuck to our guns and didn’t get swayed, if we didn’t get called back into a careful place, if we could always be bold.

TVLINE | And since then, do you have a favorite episode?
I think Episode 7 ["Penguin's Umbrella," in which word gets out that Gordon didn't kill Oswald] was a great episode. It paid off the pilot. And Episode 12 coming up is quite great as well.

TVLINE | Speaking of Episode 7, do you feel that Harvey Bullock forming a somewhat begrudging alliance with Jim Gordon was the key to giving the show a needed thrust forward?
Yes. I think Bullock represented old Gotham with the complacent, corrupt way about him. But Gordon’s integrity and willpower are infectious, so it’s great winning Bullock over.

TVLINE | And if he can win Bullock over, others might jump on board.
Hopefully, although it’s not going to be that easy. There are a lot more people trying to destroy Jim than to support him.

TVLINE | With last week’s episode, has Arkham Asylum officially stepped forward as a major character in and of itself?
Without a doubt. And Episode 11 will really solidify that. When you’re making a show basically about the lunatics that are running the asylum — and I imagine that’s what Gotham is — it’s really good to actually go to an asylum and do stories there, because you can be as bold as you want to be.

TVLINE | A recent featurette suggested we will learn how it is that Gotham became this breeding ground for these particularly twisted characters. Is that where Arkham comes in?
Absolutely. Also, not only are there dangerously criminally insane people there, but some people are put there for the wrong reasons and swept under the rug. It’s a big rug that corrupt Gotham can sweep people under sometimes.

TVLINE | A recent throwaway line referred to the Indian Hill toxic waste dump. Was that perhaps not as throwaway as we might be led to believe?
I got to say, this is a show with a lot of enthusiastic people working on it. Nothing is a throwaway. No, that will play again.

TVLINE | Nothing good ever comes of toxic waste.
Or ancient Indians [upon whose graves the dump is built].

TVLINE | In the fall finale, “LoveCraft,” Jim Gordon gets assigned to Arkham. How does that come to be? He’s riding a high as of late.
Yeah, but the thing about that is if you piss off the wrong people enough times, you’ll end up in a place where everybody else they don’t want to deal with is. Like I said, Arkham isn’t just a home for the criminally insane, it’s a place where people can hide things — like discard meddle- some cops who won’t tow the line.

TVLINE | Will we be getting some more Selina and Bruce bonding in this episode as well?
Absolutely. Their relationship is a strange one, but they’re both very similar in a way, even though they’ve been brought up in completely opposite ways. It’s a lot of fun trying to find ways where which they will bond, because there’s a million more ways for them to be torn apart. Something is drawing them in towards each other, but they’re young and they don’t quite know what that is yet, but it’s not just the fact that their circumstances are similar. It’s the fact that their very organism is connected.

TVLINE | I loved that line where they commended each other on how stealthily they get around.
Yeah, and that’s it, that’s the bond. That’s the line that starts the bond there. It’s not about upbringing and who’s in the streets and who’s in the mansion. It’s much more about, “At the core, who are they?” They’re very similar people.

TVLINE | I’ve been warming up to the mob war storyline the past month or so. Who takes the next big swing in that?
Well, you see, the thing about Penguin and his Machiavellian genius is the fact that he’s actually the one inciting the riot. He’s the one whispering in everyone’s ear. It’s much more about the way that he’s trying to make the way things work, the hierarchy, collapse. So even though there are going to be some major roadblocks for Penguin, he’s clear on his mission, which is to bring it all down.

TVLINE | To look a bit further down the road, talk about bringing on Morena Baccarin (Homeland) as the DC Comics character Dr. Leslie Thompkins. It looks like she might be arriving at a particularly vulnerable time in Jim’s life.
Absolutely. And maybe that’s why their relationship may have some lasting effects, because I think they have a lot in common, too. He is vulnerable, and he can’t really do this alone. No, we have a lot of plans for that relationship, and not just to support Jim but also to make him vulnerable.

TVLINE | Will, per DC Comics lore, Leslie also afford you an additional avenue to access the Bruce Wayne character?
Absolutely, but later. We’re not going to rush that relationship.

TVLINE | What can you say about last week’s scene revealing Barbara in bed with Montoya? For many, that was kind of a “Huh?” moment. What was the greater significance?
It was the idea of however much Barbara tried to win Jim back, her failure to do so jettisoned her back into her past — a past where she basically was out of control, and numb to the pains, where she’d blocked out whatever turned her into that animal. Now she has opened those floodgates again and reverted back to…

TVLINE | Oh, is this a first step in a greater regression?
It’s about to get very dark for Barbara.

TVLINE | You have a lot of characters to juggle. What have you found to be the secret to making it all work?
Utter joy in what we do. Utter joy. There’s a reason this franchise has lasted 75 years. It’s very, very unlike a foreign world or a supernatural world. It’s a real world so close to our own, but at the same time a little heightened, a little more “anything can happen,” a little more rife in unpredictable things. And because of that, and because we keep our feet on the ground, we keep things real but we still get to put a lot more visual flair and a lot more outrageous or heightened reality into it without losing its relatability.

TVLINE | Gotham was originally conceived as having a 16-episode season; now you have an order for a full 22. What was your first order of business once you found out you were going to have the extra time to fill? Was there an opportunity there that otherwise might not have been seized?
Our only fear is that we need to keep the quality up. That’s all. What we’re finding with a lot of fan mail and a lot of people speaking to us is that people are trying to watch this [several episodes] in a row, going back and starting from the top, and [22 episodes] is a lot of television to watch. And it’s a lot of television to produce. So the daunting aspect of it was not in our heads; we have an abundance of ideas. It’s the workload and keeping that quality at a level that we find acceptable. So far, we’ve been able to do it, but it’s a 24/7 job.

TVLINE | Is there anything in particular we might be getting more of as a result, that you originally were planning to breeze through?
No. No. We’re staying on track. We spread [the story] out a little, which is a good thing. You know, [Episode] 16 would’ve been a massive, massive, massive episode if we [held to the initial plan], but now we were able to spread it out a bit, which it’s kind of nice because it gives us more character time, and it gives us more emotional time where we don’t have to be obsessed with plot, even though some of the plots coming up are very complex right now. What’s nice about it is we don’t have to rush that or squeeze it into a small, confined space. We can take that complexity and stretch it out over another six episodes now, which, in the long run, might be a blessing.


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- Camren Bicondova habra sobre el convertirse en Selina, su Catwoman favorita y la esperanza de una serie animada de Gotham (comicbook):

Camren Bicondova habra sobre el convertirse en Selina, su Catwoman favorita y la esperanza de una serie animada de Gotham
por Russ Burlingame 24/11/2014

Defying the conventional wisdom that child actors in genre shows will have a rough go of things, Gotham's David Mazouz and Camren Bicondova -- Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, respectively -- have been acclaimed for their performances on the Fox hit this season.

Bicondova, though, said that she hadn't heard anything about that, being busy on the set of the series.

During an interview with ComicBook.com, she told us a little bit about working with Mazouz and how it's changed her view of Selina Kyle as a character, what makes the Catwoman-to-be tick and some of her favorite past iterations of Batman and Catwoman.

Is there a bit of a wider range of emotion open to you now that you're playing off David?

Doing the scenes with David introduced me to a little bit of a different aspect of Selina because I realized that she isn't just a street thief and a survivor; she's actually a normal girl. That would be what would change my approach a little more.

I hadn't thought of it until you said it, but do you think some of her snark and attitude is a defense mechanism?

Definitely. I think surviving on the streets of Gotham and the fact that she's fourteen and living on her own, she's had to learn a lot in a small amount of time. I think being harsh and not showing very many emotions is a defense mechanism, for sure.

You're pretty young; is this the first time you've played a character who's the smartest person in the room all the time?

Yes, this would be my first time. I don't think there's any other character like Selina because she's so unpredictable. She's very mischievous and very challenging to play at times, because she feels emotions but she hides them. So it's challeniging showing emotions she's trying to hide but that's what makes the character so lovable, I think. That's the fun part of my job.

How would you characterize Selina's arc this season?

Hmm...the main word that I can think of to characterize Selina is that she's just surviving.

How many different iterations of Batman have you seen?

I watched the '60s TV show with Adam West, I've been reading comic books and watched some movies. I've mainly been focusing on the comic books.

If you could inhabit one of those spaces, which one would it be?

I'm not really sure. I like all of them. Based on what's already out there, I think it would be cool to be part of a cartoon version of Batman. I do think it would be cool if a cartoon version of Gotham existed. I think it would be very cool to be part of that.

Do you have a favorite take on Catwoman?

I love Julie Newmar and Michelle Pfeiffer. Those two stand out the most to me, but everybody is amazing in their own ways.

Obviously, the last two women to play this character were Oscar winners. That's an interesting club to be a part of. Did you feel any pressure stepping into this role just because of everyone who had come before?

Yes. [Laughs] There's just a little bit of pressure suddenly being part of such an amazing group of actresses. It's intimidating for me because this is my first TV job. The fact that I'm part of a group of seven women who all played this character, it's insane and it's amazing.

Is there a favorite setting you've had for Selina so far? Other than Bullock and Gordon, you're the only character who's really been everywhere.

I really enjoy being on rooftops. There's no specific set that I enjoy but I do like being on rooftops and scaffolding and ladders because it allows me to do things that I wouldn't ordinarily get to do in Camren's life, so that's really fun.

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- Clare Foley Planta las Semillas para 'Poison Ivy' en "Gotham" (CBR):

Clare Foley Planta las Semillas para 'Poison Ivy' en "Gotham"
Por Bryan Cairns, 24 Noviembre, 2014

Bruce Wayne really should sympathize with Ivy Pepper.

The murder of young Master Wayne's parents will eventually drive the billionaire to create his avenging alter-ego, Batman. Similarly, the death of Ivy's father at the hands of the police scarred her for life, and as a result, the unassuming little red head will someday become one of the Caped Crusader's deadliest foes, Poison Ivy.

For now though, the TV series "Gotham" is exploring Ivy's formative years, and the disturbing events leading up to her villainous transformation. After appearing in the pilot, tonight's episode, "Lovecraft" -- which also serves as the series' mid-season finale -- marks Ivy's return to the ensemble drama, and we spoke with Foley about Ivy's green thumb, her growing rage and the connection with Selina Kyle.

CBR News: Ivy is one of the most iconic Batman villains around -- what can you tell us about the audition process for the role?

Clare Foley: It was pretty secretive. I just got one quick scene. It did not have the name Ivy. It just had the name Sally. It said "Untitled project." I had no idea what the role was for --I had no idea even what the project was. We did a little bit of improv for the audition, then they said, "Okay, she booked the project. It's for the show, 'Gotham.'"

How was this version of Ivy described to you?

The description just said, "The young Poison Ivy, Ivy Pepper." It gave a little bit of background on what was happening in the episode, like she's the daughter of Mario Pepper.

What kind of research did you do on the character?

It's very interesting to look back at certain comics and cartoons and see how they described her before all of this. There is actually a pretty good amount of information on her. I did a little bit of research; I read the first comic Poison Ivy was in. I've always watched different Batman movies, shows and cartoons, too.

How has Ivy's family life and environment shaped her?

Well, I can't say too much, but you see the anger build in Ivy in that first episode. You see that anger stick with her throughout the series. As she becomes Poison Ivy, that anger towards the Waynes and the police is always with her.

Where do we find Ivy in tonight's episode?

She's lurking around on the streets now that her father is gone.

Bruce and Ivy bump into each other. What is her impression of him?

Ivy is a little bit upset with him. She's secretly mad at Bruce because it was his parents' fault that her father died.

How would you describe Ivy's relationship with Selina?

They just know each other because they are both homeless children. All the children on the street have a connection to each other. There are a lot of different backstories saying they've known each other for a while. They are the same age, they live on street, so I think they have that connection there.

At one point, Selina tells Ivy to calm down. What is Ivy like when she gets angry?

I am interested to see! You kind of get that a little bit in the pilot, when Ben McKenzie's James Gordon comes back to see the shoes. She might get very upset, so I'm interested to see what she does.

Is Ivy's obsession with plant life going to be explored further in future episodes?

That would definitely be interesting to see. It shows a bit of that in the pilot where she's watering her plants. Maybe it's because she is named Ivy. It would be interesting to see where that really came from.

Since you're still in school, how do your classmates respond to you being a part of "Gotham?"

My classmates think it's really cool that I'm on the show, but they know I can't tell them anything. A few people will try and be like, "Oh, what's happening?" I just tell them to watch the next episode. They come in the next day and go, "That's so crazy!"

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- Robin Lord Taylor Habla sobre GOTHAM, la respuesta positiva de los Fans a su interpretación, la locura y genialidad del 'Pingüino', trabajar con Carol Kane, y Más (collider):

Robin Lord Taylor Habla sobre GOTHAM, la respuesta positiva de los Fans a su interpretación, la locura y genialidad del 'Pingüino', trabajar con Carol Kane, y Más
Por Christina Radish 24 Nov 2014

One of the biggest break-out performances of the current Fall TV season is that of Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot, aka The Penguin, on the Fox drama series Gotham. He’s made the most of every moment that he’s been given, and he’s turned the character into someone unpredictable, dangerous, funny, sad and sympathetic.

During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, actor Robin Lord Taylor talked about how this entire experience is so big that it’s hard to wrap his brain around it, finding the perfect balance of evil genius and batshit crazy, how long all of The Penguin’s manipulations can continue before it all blows up in his face, where things are at between The Penguin and Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith), having the amazing Carol Kane play his mother, and how Oswald Cobblepot is embracing the slur and fully becoming The Penguin. Check out what he had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers.

Collider: When you signed on to do this, did you have any idea how much of a break-out performance this could or would be? Did you have a moment where you thought, “This is a dream role and I’m going to make the most of it”?

ROBIN LORD TAYLOR: Definitely, once I found out what it was, but there were a series of hurdles, first. Right before I auditioned, I found out what the project was, and I was like, “Oh, my gosh, this is a lot bigger than I thought it would be.” And then, they called me to go test for it and I was like, “Okay, now I’m getting closer to this.” But I’ve been close on big things in the past, so I wanted to keep my cool. Whatever happened, it would be fine. And then, I went in and did incredibly well, and I found out that I got it. I was like, “This is really happening.” All you want, as an actor, is a part on any show. You want any pilot, or anything. I just couldn’t believe it was real. And then, once I read the script, I was just excited and like, “This is something that I really can do and sink my teeth into. This is a big break. This is actually happening.” It’s so big that it’s really hard to wrap my brain around it.

What’s it like to see so many people, including Patton Oswalt, talking about your performance on social media?

TAYLOR: I know! How insane is that?! Of all people, he played The Penguin in a College Humor online video. He has such an amazing critical eye, especially for comic book stuff, and he had such a positive response. I’m used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, “Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.” That’s all I ever really strived for or expected. But then, to have this kind of reaction and to be on this kind of show, and to have people really appreciating my work, the humble Midwestern part of me refuses to believe it. It doesn’t feel real, in a way.

With all of the characters in Gotham, and the fact that they set up so many of them in the pilot, are you surprised how much it’s narrowed down and focused on the rise of The Penguin? Did you have any idea that that would be the Season 1 story arc?

TAYLOR: I knew pretty much from the beginning, when we were shooting the pilot. Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller both approached me to talk about the show, and they did that with all of us. They said that each season would focus on one villain, in particular, and that this first season would really focus on The Penguin. So, I knew, and the response has been insane. If we get a second season, knock on wood, I hope that The Penguin won’t have been established completely, by the end of the first season, so that I can come back and play with the other characters. All I want is to have some kind of interaction with Cory Michael Smith’s character, Edward Nygma, once he makes that break. To have a Rogues Gallery kind of thing would be really exciting. I love the fact that they’re both outcasts, but in different ways, and the way that they deal with that is obviously very different. They’re coming at it from different angles. The Penguin’s whole thing is to ingratiate himself to everybody, so that he can then have them on his side, and then use that to his advantage. Whereas Edward Nygma does his own thing. I would say that he’s more eccentric and isn’t as aware of how people feel about him. At the same time, that allows him to embrace that character’s quirkiness. To see them together would be really, really awesome. I’m just waiting for that. Cory is so good. He’s one of my favorite people on the show. I love everybody on the show, but he’s so awesome. So, I’m hoping for that opportunity.

Oswald Cobblepot is the perfect balance of evil genius and batshit crazy. Is that just inherently there in the character, or is it a constant balancing act?

TAYLOR: It comes just in the way that it’s written. The character is written so well. When I get the script, I never feel like it goes too far in one direction. The way he goes about getting what he wants from people and the way he ingratiates himself to people, he cow-tows to people, in order to gain the upper hand, later on. Because of that aspect of his personality, he’s not going to be doing crazy stuff just for the sake of doing crazy stuff. There’s a method to what he’s doing. He actually really does care about certain people. He really does care about Jim Gordon. He really does feel like there’s a friendship there. I just don’t think Jim feels the same way. Penguin even said, a couple episodes ago, that he is the only trustworthy man in Gotham City, and he really does believe that. He really wants to foster that, so that he can have an ally on the other side of the fence. He does evil, horrible things to people, but at the same time, it’s methodical and it’s not entirely unjustified. There is always a reason behind what he does. Because of that, I feel like it does come somewhat naturally. It makes sense to me.

We’ve learned that The Penguin has secretly been working with Carmine Falcone, so what can you say about what that means for the rest of the Gotham underworld? How long can he play everybody before it all blows up in his face?

TAYLOR: I don’t think he can do it very long because of the enemies that he’s made. Fish is not going to go down quietly. She is not letting go of the empire that she’s worked so hard to build, over her whole life. She’s not going to lay down and just let it happen. She won’t just be moving to Miami. Because of that, and because Penguin has put himself out there, he can’t keep these secrets for too long. It will come back and bite him in the butt, and I’m so looking forward to it, I have to say. The joke on set is that I come out of make-up and I have some new something on my face because, in every episode, I either get slapped or I get the crap beat out of me. Something happens to Penguin, in every episode, and I think it’s great because his trajectory isn’t a straight line. It’s a series of two steps forward and one step back. He’s finding his way, which makes him so much more complex. It gives the character so much further to go. If you watch Game of Thrones, I liken the Penguin to Theon Greyjoy of Gotham. Every physically bad thing that could happen to somebody is happening to Penguin, but it’s really fun.

Where are things at between The Penguin and Fish Mooney?

TAYLOR: Because he made this choice to go against Fish and be his own person in Gotham, I don’t think he has any jealousy about anyone that would take his place with Fish, but at the same time, there is an actual affection that he has for Fish. She has this motherly aspect to her, and they were very, very, very close. He actually enjoys her, and I think there is some sadness that it’s all breaking down this way and they can’t work together, in some ways. But at the same time, he’s entirely realistic. He’s learned that, with the exception of Jim Gordon and his mother, there is absolutely no one in Gotham that he can fully trust. But I do think that there is a part of him that misses that connection with Fish.

How would you describe the unusual dynamic between The Penguin and his mother?

TAYLOR: I think a lot of it stems from the fact that she was his only protector when he was growing up. He had it rough, being bullied and tormented because of the way he looks and his interests. The only person who was there to defend him was his mother, and the only person that she had to relate to was her son. It created this very intense bond, which drifts into a very intimate place. I don’t think it goes that far. I don’t think of it as something sexual, or anything. At the same time, there is a really intense closeness between the two of them that, from the outside, look a little strange to people. He’s definitely a momma’s boy.

My favorite scene, so far, was of Penguin in the bathtub, talking to his mother because it was just such an odd, creepy moment.

TAYLOR: Oh, yeah, that was one of my favorite ones to shoot, too. Any time I get to work with Carol Kane is a dream because she brings such an amazing energy to the character and in general. I’ve been a fan of hers forever, and she’s so kind and nice. She just made that scene so much more fun and filled with this very strange, intimate tension, which was super fun to play. We have a really great relationship off screen, and I think that comes through in the actual scenes, too. She’s awesome.

What was your reaction when you found out that Carol Kane would be playing your mother?

TAYLOR: This is the honest truth, it was the second episode where she was introduced, which was the first episode that we shot after the pilot, and I got the script and randomly, earlier that day, I was on some website online that listed everybody’s birthday that day. I was like, “Oh, it’s Carol Kane’s birthday today.” And then, I got the script and saw that I had a mom and I was like, “Oh, my god, they have to get Carol Kane! It would be amazing if they got Carol Kane!” So, I texted my agent right away and was like, “I have a mom! This is so exciting! I really wish they would cast Carol Kane!” And she was like, “That would be amazing! But I’m sure there are a lot of people who are in line for this role.” Two days later, Danny Cannon, the executive producer texted me and said, “Carol Kane is playing your mom.” So, I take full credit for it. I was the one to first put it out in the universe, and I honestly couldn’t believe it. I have texts that show this is actually how it went down. It’s so crazy! And she’s my neighbor, of all things. She lives about two blocks away from me.

When you play this character, do you think of him as Oswald Cobblepot, or do you think of him as The Penguin?

TAYLOR: I think of him as Oswald Cobblepot, who has taken the slur – and he’s always viewed being called The Penguin as a slur because it’s something that hurt him very deeply throughout his entire life – and embraced that. When you embrace the thing you hate the most, you take the power away from it. I see him being like, “Okay, I’m The Penguin, so I’m gonna be the motherfuckin’ Penguin. If that’s how you’re gonna label me, then let’s go.” He fully embraces that and uses it to empower himself. That’s how I approach it. It’s playing the hand that you’re dealt. The writers and Bruno and Danny understand that, for this character to have some sort of longevity and for him to last in Gotham, there has to be a three-dimensionality to him. He can’t just be evil for no reason. You have to understand all of the motivations behind him. It’s a dream character to play. It’s one thing to be bad for the sake of being bad, but to show all of the motivations and the origin for where those impulses come from makes it interesting.

http://collider.com/gotham-robin-lord-taylor-interview/

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- Entrevista: Donal Logue camina en el ritmo de GOTHAM (assignementx):

Entrevista: Donal Logue camina en el ritmo de GOTHAM
Por ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01 Diciembre, 2014 / 02:00 PM

On Fox’s GOTHAM, Monday nights at 8 PM, we are in DC’s BATMAN universe. However, right now, Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is still a youth who is only beginning to contemplate how he may fight crime in the city of his birth. For now, trying to uphold the law falls to Gotham City police detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), an upright soul in the midst of profound corruption.

A prime – albeit likable – example of this corruption can be found right at Gordon’s side in the person of his police partner Harvey Bullock, played by Donal Logue. Harvey has seen it all, done most of it, and thinks that beating a suspect, taking bribes and looking the other way is often all in a day’s work. He also seems to have a possibly romantic past with Gotham crime boss Fish Mooney, who is played seductively by Jada Pinkett-Smith.

The Ottawa, Canada-born actor has been working nonstop for years now, appearing virtually simultaneously in either regular or arced roles on COPPER as an 1860s New York politician, VIKINGS as a ruler in ancient Scandinavia, SONS OF ANARCHY as a gang leader and LAW & ORDER: SVU as an NYPD police lieutenant. Back in 2010, Logue also starred in the much-lauded though short-lived FX series TERRIERS as Hank Dolworth, an unlicensed private eye who had previously been a cop, with a background that sounded something like Bullock’s.

Logue is part of a Q&A panel that Fox holds for GOTHAM and the Television Critics Association. When the panel ends, Logue remains for a follow-up chat with a small group of reporters.

ASSIGNMENT X: Did you imagine before GOTHAM came to you as a project that you’d find a character this complex within the realm of a comic adaptation?

DONAL LOGUE: I always did. Comics became a deeper literary form. I don’t know how to describe this. It’s interesting, because years ago, when I was at MTV, for instance, they didn’t want to do a movie about a character I created who I found very interesting, because they said, “It’s not as complex as talking cockroaches [which MTV was doing a musical about at the time].” Any time you find a person, anywhere, there is complexity. So I knew, especially because of the kind of noir-ish world, that it was very complicated, and I knew that certainly BATMAN has become kind of a new [source of drama]. Just in the last ten or fifteen years, I think, comics and graphic novels have taken their place as a legitimate art form, and absolutely you can find those levels of complexity.

AX: Do you think Harvey Bullock, if he left the force, could in some ways become Hank Dolworth in TERRIERS? Do you see a through-line between those characters?

LOGUE: I always see that. In fact, we were talking about discovering in future episodes what it was exactly that may have happened to Harvey. Some of it’s cumulative and some of it is specific, and I thought, “Wow, how similar to what happened to Hank Dolworth in TERRIERS.” The broken man – maybe it’s been explored a lot, but to me, the human psyche is always endlessly fascinating and a billion stories can spring from it. That’s why I’m always surprised by the, “How can you do a superhero thing without a superhero?” [question]. But it keeps coming back with this. It seems to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s Mark Twain or whether it’s CHINATOWN – whatever the story is, any time it’s the human drama writ large, there’s a million stories to tell.

AX: Do you Harvey started out less jaded than we see him now?

LOGUE: Absolutely, he wasn’t jaded. It’s funny, because friends of mine who’ve worked in government, friends of mine who’ve worked in diplomacy, even guys who’ve worked in the military, they’re like, “When you float into the real world, I don’t mean to say you get – ‘jaded’ might not be the right word, it’s just you can get deeply involved in some charity and find out everything you’ve been giving that goes to Somalia gets immediately taken off the ship by warlords, taken and sold.” You know what I mean? So the world is a gritty place and Gotham is a gritty place.

AX: When do you think Harvey become Jada’d?

LOGUE: I’m just finding out, but to me, that was one of the best parts of the pilot, was reading that he walks in and immediately it’s a smooch with [Pinkett-Smith’s character] – whoa. For Jim Gordon to look at this world with this Eskimo leading him, this Harvey Bullock, to me, it’s fascinating, that crossing over.

AX: There’s another scene in the pilot where Harvey Bullock and Jim Gordon are hanging upside-down. Can you talk about filming that?

LOGUE: That was an interesting scene to film, because it was actually in a working warehouse location, so it was hard to find time [to shoot] between the actual guys unloading trucks and stuff like that, but we had a good day in that location. We were hanging upside-down for awhile – it’s harder than I thought.

AX: When you’re hanging upside-down, does that do anything to or for your acting process?

LOGUE: Absolutely. Any time there’s something really happening, like pressure in your head or something.

AX: Where does GOTHAM shoot?

LOGUE: The stages are at Steiner Studios, which is the Brooklyn Navy yard, and then half of the episode, we’re inside, half of the episode, we’re on the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

AX: Do you see any difference between GOTHAM and your other recent projects?

LOGUE: It’s been an incredibly fun ride. For me, the biggest shift with this – and I wouldn’t say much of a shift, but coming from COPPER, VIKINGS, SONS OF ANARCHY, maybe even LAW & ORDER [SVU], things that are pretty visceral and also in their time and space very real-world, it’s just that – there was a question earlier about violence, and what’s interesting to me is, we have to step back in the violence, compared to the violence of VIKINGS or things that I’ve been doing. So to me, I thought, “This is theatrical, and it’s shaded with some color.” And in a way, I’m trying to adjust to how to get to the nonviolent world in which I live in GOTHAM in a way.

AX: You have a heavy theatre background, but when you started in film and television, you began doing primarily comedy, then went into hardcore drama. Was that a conscious decision?

LOGUE: Yeah. A couple of things, and it makes utter sense. It’s like, when I started doing theatre, I would say, “You’re doing a Joe Orton play and then you’re doing a Sam Shepard play next.” And when I first moved to Los Angeles and people would say, “Do you do comedy or drama?”, you’d say, “I guess” to both. “Well, you better choose.” And then what happens is, I’d done these improv comedy bits for MTV, and that puts you on the map as a comic performer, and so any jobs that are coming your way come through that siphon, and then you start doing them, and then you’re established as a guy who does comedy. So to me, coming up as a theatre actor or whatever, I was always surprised [by the reaction when actors changed genres]. Knowing people like Bryan Cranston, people like that, you’re like, “Of course those guys could do that thing.” It’s harder for the broader world to understand that that’s what we do, but when Bryan Cranston or Michael Chiklis were given the chance to do what they did, look at what you can produce. For some reason, I just found it really fulfilling in the last four or five years to delve into more dramatic territory.

AX: Are you enjoying being part of the DC Comics universe?

LOGUE: Absolutely. It’s huge – yes, it is special. I’ve never been on a show before that carried so much provenance coming in, that just the word GOTHAM – you know, you think about something like TERRIERS, you’re trying to invent sui generis out of nothing. You hope people will find something about it and grip onto it. Here, they’ve had that. They’ve built that up worldwide already. So there’s a responsibility to joining the DC world. I’ve gotten kind of close to [DC Comics Chief Creative Officer] Geoff Johns, who’s an amazing guy, very generous artistically and otherwise, so it’s been fun. I’ve worked for Marvel a few times, which was fun as well. I think I know comic books a bit, but I’ve never been some kind of diehard intellectual defender of comic book worlds, or what the differences between the two worlds [DC and Marvel] are. I’ve had a good experience with both.

http://www.assignmentx.com/2014/donal-l ... interview/

- Donal Logue habla sobre GOTHAM, el unirse al universo DC, cómo sus niños adoran la serie y más (Collider):

Donal Logue habla sobre GOTHAM, el unirse al universo DC, cómo sus niños adoran la serie y más
Por Christina Radish 10 diciembre 2014

On the hit Fox series Gotham, actor Donal Logue plays Harvey Bullock, the brash and shrewd police legend who sometimes walks a very blurred line to get the job done. While his new partner Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) hopes to restore Gotham City back to the pure version he remembers it was as a kid, Bullock helps steer him around the often-underhanded politics of the city’s criminal justice system and the villains that inhabit it.

During this exclusive interview with Collider, Donal Logue talked about how spoiled he feels with the worlds he’s gotten to run around in over the last couple of years, why being a part of the DC universe is like coming aboard an aircraft carrier that’s waiting for you, how showrunner Bruno Heller sold him on Gotham, how excited his kids are about him being on the show, that he’d love to see Harvey Bullock mix it up with Two-Face, that Danny Trejo has called to ask him about the show, and what it’s like to work with such a great group of people. Check out what he had to say after the jump.

Collider: You’ve played some really interesting, complex and compelling characters over the last couple of years, with Sons of Anarchy, Vikings, Copper and now Gotham.

DONAL LOGUE: It’s fun for me, too. I’m spoiled with the worlds I’ve been running around in. It’s great. Michael Hirst, Bruno Heller, Kurt Sutter, Tom Kelly and Tom Fontana, and Warren Leight have written them specifically for me. I’m lucky.

Is this the point in your career that you’ve always been striving for?

LOGUE: I think so. It’s interesting, when I was 22 or so, and I was in drama school in England, this one woman with the Royal Shakespeare Company was like, “You’ll really find your stride when you’re 50,” but when you’re 22, you don’t want to hear that. The lucky thing is that, since I was 22, I’ve been working steadily, the whole time. But in a way, I understand what she meant now. Those different elements all come together. It’s a good time. I’m blessed and really fortunate.

Obviously, it’s cool to just be a part of the DC universe.

LOGUE: It’s like an aircraft carrier that you get to just come on. You don’t have to build this little boat to get there. It’s already there for you. You just come aboard.

With such a pedigree of talent behind Gotham, is there any way that you would have declined signing on?

LOGUE: The issue would have been if Bullock were just a really minor character, or something, because I was juggling Law & Order stuff, at the time. But I had a meeting with Bruno that sold me on the show. He’s great. I’m the beneficiary of this pedigree of being on something that’s so front street, but I’ve never really done jobs because of that. To me, the people on Copper were rock stars. Before I joined that show, I loved that show. I like bands that don’t necessarily sell the most records. If I can manage to merge those two worlds, it’s fortuitous. It sounds like a company man kind of thing, but the network and the studio are so happy that it’s great. In the case of Terriers, John Landgraf was amazing. They were so good to me when they said, “We’re so sorry. We would love to, but we can’t. You understand.” TV is just really competitive. Even on our night, there are things that a lot of people watch.

Is there someone in your life who’s most excited that you’re a part of the DC universe?

LOGUE: I think my kids are really excited. More so than the other shows I’ve been on, they’re excited about this one. That’s really satisfying, for sure.

Is there one of the villains that you’d love to see Harvey Bullock mix it up with?

LOGUE: I think Two-Face would be fun. I’m excited to see what comes down the pike. People will continue to be tripped out by the level and quality of guest stars that we get to play even the smaller, crime-of-the-week villain roles. It’s really cool. Friends of mine are calling and are like, “What’s up with Gotham?,” like Danny Trejo. That would be awesome.

How cool is it to have the city of Gotham also play such a big role in the show?

LOGUE: All I have to do is stand there and the city does so much of the work for me. I always think it’s absurd when people go, “How can you have a show about Batman without Batman?” Gotham is plenty fascinating, Chinatown style. At the end of Chinatown, the rich get away with murder, but what a ride.

What’s it like to have David Mazouz, at the center of all of this?

LOGUE: He reminds us all of what we’re supposed to be doing, which is to pretend really hard that the stakes are the real stakes. He’s amazing. I love David. It’s great to see Sean [Pertwee] cut loose a little bit, too. We have a great group of people. Everybody in the cast is great.

Do you think Harvey Bullock and Jim Gordon are always going to have a push-pull relationship and continue to learn from each other?

LOGUE: Yeah, I hope so. We get closer, and then things happen that really test that because of betrayals. I think we’re finding that, and Ben [McKenzie] and I are finding that dynamic. We’re good friends and we work really well together. We’re having fun, trying to work as hard as we can to see where we can go with it. It’s exciting and cool.

What’s it been like to work with Jada Pinkett Smith and play with the dynamic between your characters?

LOGUE: She’s great. She came with all of that homework done. I can’t say enough about Jada. She’s married to one of the most successful actors in history, and he’s a great guy, but you forget that, in her own right, she’s an amazing actor. Thank god she’s back, and thank god we got her when she chose to come back. It’s nice to be in a world where you’re not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

Do you ever find yourself a little bit jealous that you’re not one of the villains?

LOGUE: I’ve played some good villains, in the last few years. I’m good where I’m at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.


http://collider.com/donal-logue-gotham-interview/