SPOILER ALERT! This story incorporates particulars from the season finale of The Penguin on HBO.
Sure, OzCobb managed to stoop that low.
In one of many last scenes of The Penguin‘s eight-episode season, Colin Farrell‘s character had one last shock to divulge to followers: nobody, completely nobody, is protected in his more and more violent orbit.
Regardless of his love and admiration for younger Victor Aguilar (Rhenzy Feliz), Oztakes the lifetime of his most trusted confidante. For EP/Showrunner Lauren LeFranc, it was vital to show that “inevitable high quality” of the Penguin earlier than it wraps its restricted season on HBO.
“Ozhas proven himself to be somebody who’s narcissistic and lives in his personal delusion. He has actually struggled with receiving love and seeks it out from his mom, however by no means totally trusts it from folks,” LeFranc tells Deadline. “In so some ways, he’s a damaged man. With regards to Victor, it was actually vital to me that Ozkill him — not as a result of he has any motive to, and Victor did come by means of for him. Victor is like household. But Victor noticed Ozat his weakest, at his most weak. Ozreally seems like he wants a stage of energy. He can’t have weak spot, so he kills Victor.”
“It’s not due to something Victor did mistaken,” continues LeFranc. “I believe Oz, in that second, actually selected to kill his personal coronary heart and embrace the monster that he’s. It’s a horrible tragedy, and I’ve at all times seen our present as a tragedy. I hope that persons are appalled by what Ozchooses to do as a result of there’s no justifiable motive that we’ve been given for him to do it, which is at all times vital. I believe so much about who dies and when and what folks may take into consideration these deaths. Who has energy in that second? Who mistreats someone else in that second to create these darkish and horrible justifications?”
Luckily for Feliz, he knew from the very starting that his character was not lengthy for the fictional metropolis of Gotham.
“On the very first assembly I had with Lauren, we sat down and he or she advised me the whole arc of Victor’s character,” he tells Deadline. “So I knew the place we had been headed from earlier than I even received to New York [where production occurred].”
On the very least, it helped inform his character’s journey. “I knew the final word level of what it was, so I might attempt to create an arc that might finish and hopefully, make it as tragic and stunning as doable,” says Feliz. “Ozdoesn’t need any weaknesses. He simply skilled what it’s like when somebody he cares about is put by means of ache. I believe he doesn’t wish to really feel that weak once more, so he may as effectively simply take Victor out now earlier than somebody makes use of it towards him.”
Feliz says the demise scene was shot within the wee hours on Roosevelt Island in NYC’s East River. Within the week main as much as their scene, Farrell would typically nudge the younger actor and ask “you prepared for our scene? You prepared for the factor?”
“It was type of an enormous deal,” admits Feliz. “Colin was good. He was checking if my throat was all proper as a result of I might inform him, ‘go for it. Don’t maintain again a lot.’ I simply needed it to really feel actual, no matter that’s. Am I bummed? Not essentially. I imply, I knew it was going to be a restricted collection, so I knew stepping into that it will be one and accomplished. If there’s a method to exit, what higher approach than to go down by the hands of the kingpin himself. And I’ve by no means died on display screen earlier than!”
