Last week it was officially confirmed
that Terriers and Sons of Anarchy star Donal Logue had been cast in the
upcoming Gotham series as Detective Harvey Bullock. With production set to
start in a couple of weeks and with details still under wraps, the actor gave
some inside information regarding the setting of the show and the conflict in
it, in an interview to Nerd Repository.
"My kids watched the
animated series and I remember listening to it over the speaker on road trips
up to Oregon, I would hear it. It’s that tricky thing where I’m not that guy, I
don’t look visually like the guy even in the cartoon. Then there’s that weird
thing where I don’t want to take someone’s choice from the cartoon and match
it. I want to create a character, no different from Lee Toric in Sons of
Anarchy or King Horik [from History's Vikings] or Hank Dolworth in Terriers.
They’re all uniquely different scenarios and I don’t want to feel forced to do
an impersonation of something else, which is a difficult thing to keep up over
the course of a longer series. So we’ll have those talks."
Logue also teased the setting for
the series, which seems a little bit abstract.
"What I do love about
'Gotham,' that I can say so far, is that it creates this incredible world that,
for me, you can step into things that almost feel like the roaring '20s, and
then there’s this other really kind of heavy Blade Runner vibe floating around.
It has this anachronistic element to it where it feels like it’s either New
York in the '70s, or it kind of exists independently of time and space in a
way, and you can dip into all of these different genres. So I’m excited by
it.....There were a couple of examples of modern technology, but maybe an
antiquated version of it, that gave me a little bit of sense that it’s
certainly not the '50s and the '60s. No one’s making a joke about how “there’s
no way you can press a telephone button and have a piece of paper show up in
another machine.” There is an acceptance of a certain technological reality.
But its not high tech and it’s not futuristic, by any means.
He also talked about the conflicts
that he and Ben McKenzie, aka Jim Gordon might have.
"There’s kind of an
ambiguous line between good and bad. We have to let certain bad guys do certain
things, in order for the greater good, for this machine to keep working. And
then someone comes in who’s like 'No, I have a much more black and white view, I’m
not into this notion of moral relativism. There’s right and there’s
wrong.'....And what is law? Is law this platonic form of truth that floats in
space that is fixed, or is it something that’s this arbitrary thing where it’s
like “the law is me and you, right now, in this car. Whatever we determine,
that’s the law.” And that’s the kind of thing that will be a conflict in this
show."
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