In a recent interview to IGN,
Donal Logue, who is playing Detective Harvey Bullock in the upcoming comic
book-based tv show, Gotham, spoke about how his character and James Gordon,
played by James McKenzie, may inadvertently create the villains that they will
then spend years fighting.
"I would say
Bullock more than Gordon in a way... Because some of them are coming from both
the ranks of the underworld and the police department. I won't say who it
is, but I met someone recently who was in the military, and this person was
at this place in their career where they were making a decision between
going Special Forces and going full "Hooah!" into the life, or
not knowing if they were going to remain there. There was someone above
them who was like, 'The only reason you're here is because you couldn't
make it in the outside world.' So in a case like that, sometimes
decades later, that's why people do what they do, because someone back
then told them they couldn't do anything else."
Logue continued,
"I think that Edward Nigma and Penguin and so on are
people that. Whoever's come into contact with them in this stage [haven't
been that helpful to them], and from my perspective, from the Gotham City
Police Department, that would be Bullock... You know, if you're mean to
someone, if you've dismissed them or whatever, that might be the little
bit of psychological scarring that causes them to make the decision that
they make."
The actor
then tried to explain how a Gotham series minus a Batman will be good.
"It's
interesting because people will say, 'What good is Gotham? A Gotham
without Batman is stupid!,'" the actor acknowledged. "What's
fascinating about Gotham is like, what happened in the 20 years before Batman
was so effed up that it needed a vigilante to come and save it -- and those
moral decisions have repercussions. Like, Gordon does stuff that seems to come
from a good place, but you can do something and -- this kind of goes back to
the statecraft argument -- say, in Vikings time, if I want to kill my enemy, I
have to kill his kids. If I don't kill sons, they're coming after me and mine
for the rest of our lives. So you've got to pull the root out. That's something
that Gordon struggles with, being that brutal. Then later, if some bad s**t
goes down, you can say, 'Well, that was your bighearted moment.' It's kind of
mock politics, so it'll be interesting to see. I'm super fascinated to see
where a lot of these things go. The question is, how did we get there? How did
we get to the point where we had to have a Batman?"
Gotham stars Ben McKenzie (Detective Gordon), Donal
Logue (Detective Bullock), Zabryna Guevara (Captain Essen), Sean Pertwee
(Alfred),Jada Pinkett Smith (Fish Mooney), Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin), Erin
Richards (Barbara Kean), Drew Powell (Butch Gilzean), David Mazouz (Bruce Wayne),
Camren Bicondova (Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman), and Corey Michael Smith (The
Riddler).
Written by Bruno Heller (The Mentalist), Gotham will
explore the origin stories of Commissioner Gordon and the villains that call
Gotham home.
Danny Cannon (CSI, Nikita) will helm the pilot and
executive produce the show alongside Heller.
What do you
think? Will you be tuning in to watch the show?
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