In an interview to TV Line, actor Ben McKenzie, who
will be seeing as Detective Jim Gordon in the upcoming Batman-based show
Gotham, spoke about doing a show in the world of Batman, without Batman,
Alfred's role and more.
TVLINE
| Do you feel less pressure, because there is no Batman in Gotham, or more pressure, to deliver a compelling drama
without him?
I
would say that there’s always pressure when you’re dealing with a
world that is so beloved by the fans of that world — and Batman has got to be
the deepest and broadest fan base in the entire world, I would think.
Maybe Superman [is bigger]…? But I don’t even know if that’s true. So they
care deeply about it, and the responsibility you have as a creative entity
within this thing to try to do it well enough to where they don’t hate you. Not
having Batman I feel is kind of freeing, because it doesn’t put pressure
on whomever would have to play that role. David Mazouz, who plays the young
Bruce Wayne, is a fantastic actor and a lovely young man, and he gets
to reinterpret the role. We’ve seen Bruce at 12, but we usually just
use that as the backstory [for a Batman story] and then jump
forward. So the fact that we sit there in the present and watch this young
man try to understand what his future will be, because he is presented with
both alternatives, is a special thing. Alfred and I will battle over his
soul, effectively….
TVLINE
| Is that how you are describing the Jim Gordon/Alfred dynamic?
Broadly
and generically speaking, yeah, because Alfred has also been reinterpreted
as a much stronger man, a military Royal Forces guy. As such, he’s not going to
sit there and quietly, kindly explain things to Bruce; he’s going to say,
“Stiff upper lip, shoulders back, chest up, look grief in the eye and
don’t blink.” Jim is also a military man, but he’s also sort of a
gentler soul –at least initially.
Source - TV Line
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