Donal Logue is one of the leads in Gotham, the new FOX series that explores the origin story of James Gordon.
Logue plays Harvey Bullock, Gordon’s partner.
Logue is coming off several memorable roles on television, including King Horik in Vikings and Lee Toric in Sons of Anarchy.
He also appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Copper in the past couple years, besides some film work.
Logue, 48, recently spoke to MTV about aspects of Gotham, including the villains--which include Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor).
“You get to meet these people, it’s like, ‘well, why did they turn bad?’” Logue said.
“They didn’t wake up one day and be a fully-formed Danny DeVito ‘The Penguin.’ Were they picked on? Were they ridiculed? How did they form? For me, the most fascinating part of being in the show is to go, ‘oh, so that’s how he decides to turn his back on the good side and go to the dark side’… you always kind of wonder what made someone the way they were.”
From the beginning of the show, Cobblepot’s evolution into the Penguin is explored while other pre-villains include Edward Nygma, who later becomes the Riddler.
Unlike most of his television work, Logue wants to stay on Gotham for multiple years, saying he hopes it goes for at least five seasons.
And he had all good words about his on-screen partner Gordon (Ben McKenzie).
“This dude’s like someone I rolled with my whole life,” he told Zap2It. “Honestly, I couldn’t be more lucky to have a partner ... this is great. They got the most important thing, the carbon of ‘Gotham’ is Gordon. He is the way into all of these different worlds, including Alfred and Bruce. They got the right guy.”
McKenzie added that the series will adhere largely to the universe built in other previous media but also have taken some liberties.
“I think that’s the best scenario,” he said. “Of course we want people who are fans of these worlds to love the show, we’re killing ourselves 16 hours a day to do that. However, as artists we have to have the freedom to create and interpret as we see fit, otherwise we’re not doing our job.”
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