Cristina Milioti Know that Sofia Falcone is the Iconic Batman Villain in Penguin

The moment Sofia Falcone walked into that fateful family dinner in that yellow dress The PenguinThe fourth episode, “Cent’anni,” the actress Cristina Milioti confirmed the character as one of the best villains of Batman. His canary during the coal mine is one of the show’s best scenes, and was designed in collaboration between Milioti, Penguin producer Lauren LeFranc, and director Helen Shaver.

At that time we had already seen the events that led to the mob queen being killed by her father with Hangman’s murder and her suffering in Arkham because of him; he was only absolved of his sins after his death Batman. But even then, his freedom came with some serious juju, no thanks to Oz, as he quickly lost his brother and their drug empire plans in the present day. In “Cent’anni,” he was faced with his family continuing to exorcise him by sending him to Italy in an attempt to take over his power like many others before him.

In an interview with IndieWire, the actor shared how much of a team effort it was to create his role as the villainous Batman and LeFranc. “I just recently signed. I had a phone call that lasted for many hours with Lauren where she told me everything, then I received the first four documents,” said Mlioti. “I had time to call him and talk to him and really sit with them and read them, and he gave me the last four about what’s going on, the big events there, but I got it right after he signed.”

From the beginning Milioti was a game for anything. “I’m a big Batman fan, it’s been my lifelong dream to be a Batman villain and be able to show his whole story. For that to appear in a woman’s brain—you can just love the idea, you can feel it,” she said.

The yellow dress launched as many Reddit threads as it could find; in fact, it was created by costume designer Helen Huang especially at the moment Sofia is coming into her own. “I had 10,000 pieces of that dress,” she said. “We’ve been talking to Helen all the time about what can flow freely and let you see this body language—it’s the first time you see her really breathing, and feeling joy, and feeling light … and yet we wanted it to show everything. scars, and we knew that eventually it would go with the mask, so I wanted to do something with his eyes where you can see them through the gas detector. “

Milioti described Sofia’s entrance into the scene as showing off her “new war paint,” and showing that “there has been a change in her.” Putting all those things together was so much fun. And knowing that we’re creating this Batman villain, like when did you do that?”

Milioti hopes she’ll return to the role just like the rest of us, as there are “endless possibilities” for where Sofia could step in next.

“Obviously I’d like to see him out of Arkham. That’s like number one. I don’t want him there. So I want to see him get out of there, and then take revenge,” he said. “Maybe now he will be a loose cannon, because before it focuses on him and gains strength, but depending on what happens to him there, it can be a bigger rock. I would like to check that out.”

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