“It’s an increase to energy story on some stage for Oz, so I knew typically the place I wanted to depart him as a personality,” LeFranc says of The Penguin‘s relationship to The Batman. “However then actually the fantastic thing about it’s that I had lots of freedom inside that to play. Matt [Reeves, director of The Batman] was actually gracious about saying, ‘Yeah, you possibly can create new canon.’”
That new canon comes throughout in Sofia’s self-actualizing within the wake of her father’s dethroning, which complicates Oz’s personal machinations.
“For me, crucial and important factor in any story, irrespective of should you’re between two movies or something, is the characters,” LeFranc says. “Ensuring that you just do the work to have the characters really feel alive and wealthy and sophisticated, that you’ve got backstory for them, whether or not you totally see it or not on display screen, and that you realize the place they’re emotionally going.”
The principle drive of Sofia’s story is summarized superbly in a shocking scene from episode three through which she and Oz attempt to persuade the boss of Gotham’s Triads to distribute a brand new drug known as Bliss. To ease the boss’s trepidation, Sofia provides a speech in regards to the psychological want that drives each particular person and the way the folks of Gotham experiencing ache from all the pieces they’ve misplaced have change into determined. Sofia could also be gesturing towards teenagers dancing on a membership ground, attempting to recover from the devastation the Riddler wrought in The Batman, however she’s actually speaking about herself.
“That speech is sort of a weirdly weak second for her,” Milioti explains. “She’s in a really unsafe atmosphere, not simply the membership, however with Oz close to all of it. She is aware of how folks take a look at her when she walks in a room.”
Sofia’s capacity to make use of that vulnerability and shock those that would underestimate her makes her a formidable opponent to Oz and a bigger risk to Gotham Metropolis usually. And, for Milioti, it’s what makes Sofia match inside the world of Batman.
