Theo Rossi chats with THR at the premiere for 'The Penguin' and reveals how cold the sets were due to Colin Farrell being covered in prosthetics. Plus, he shares what sets 'The Penguin' apart from other villain stories.
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00:00Give us a little rundown of your character and his relationship to Penguin.
00:04My relationship is to Sophia Falcone. I'm with her.
00:08And I'm, you know, if this was divided in sides of Oz and Sophia,
00:12I am team Sophia all the way, and I'm with her.
00:15You know, we first pop up ten years before in Arkham,
00:18in the flashbacks with her and I, and then it's really a cheerleading,
00:23supportive, her doctor trying to get her to be the,
00:28supporting her and being the worst human being possible.
00:32Well, it's so crazy because I feel like even in recent days,
00:35a lot of people have been likening the show to The Sopranos.
00:38So what have you been making of those comparisons?
00:41I think it's the best show that's ever been made.
00:43So I'll take that comparison all day.
00:45It's better than being compared to many others.
00:49I don't want to slight any shows because they're all really hard to make.
00:52But Sopranos is the greatest show ever made.
00:55So if five people say that on the planet, we've won.
00:59I mean, yeah, it's arguably one of the greatest shows on television.
01:02Yeah, I think the HBO thing, I think the gangster,
01:04I think Gotham being New York, I think it all works.
01:07I think that Oz kind of looks like Tony a little.
01:10They have similarities.
01:12So I think there's a lot of that.
01:14The mother stuff, there's a lot of similarities.
01:17The psychiatrist, I'm discovering this as we go.
01:21I know, you're like, actually, you know what, I agree.
01:23Actually, I agree with all of it.
01:25Well, I know that when you look at Colin,
01:28he completely just transforms in this series.
01:32What was your first reaction when you saw him step out onto the set?
01:35We met later in the series
01:37because our characters don't run into each other until later.
01:40And when I did, it was fascinating because it's a lot of work.
01:46That's a tremendous amount of makeup.
01:48The sets were freezing because he's sweating in that much makeup.
01:52I heard the set was really, really cold.
01:54About 50 degrees. I had a winter coat on in June.
01:57So you just keep as warm as you can
02:00and you do the best you can in the frozen temperatures.
02:04Well, I know there's a lot of super villain stories that are out there,
02:07but what's one thing that people would be surprised to learn
02:10about Penguin's story in this series?
02:12Sophia. I mean, the rise of Sophia Falcone,
02:15the rise of that character,
02:17and if you know the comic and you know whatever,
02:19she really takes it to a level that I just think is absolutely extraordinary.
02:23And to have people like Julian Rush, the doctor,
02:26this strange character lifting her up to do what she's got to do
02:31from Arkham to ten years later in the present day,
02:34I think learning about her is going to be the thing
02:37that's going to surprise a lot of people.
02:39What super villain story would you love to see a spinoff of next,
02:43particularly in Gotham?
02:46Probably the Dollmaker.
02:48It's a really strange, obscure character
02:50who takes people's skin and wears it.
02:53Yeah.
02:55So ones that people maybe haven't really seen come to life yet.
02:59Yeah, Clayface, the Dollmaker.
03:01There's a lot of strange ones that are out there.
03:03Not the basics like Riddler, Joker, the ones that have been done.
03:06More obscure.
03:08More obscure.
03:09There's some really cool obscure characters.