SPOILER ALERT! This story comprises particulars from the season finale of The Penguin on HBO.
Sure, OuncesCobb managed to stoop that low.
In one of many remaining scenes of The Penguin‘s eight-episode season, Colin Farrell‘s character had one remaining 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), Ouncestakes 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.
“Ounceshas 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 absolutely trusts it from individuals,” LeFranc tells Deadline. “In so some ways, he’s a damaged man. With regards to Victor, it was actually vital to me that Ounceskill 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 Ouncesat his weakest, at his most weak. Ouncesreally seems like he wants a degree of energy. He can’t have weak spot, so he kills Victor.”
“It’s not due to something Victor did unsuitable,” continues LeFranc. “I feel 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 all the time seen our present as a tragedy. I hope that individuals are appalled by what Ounceschooses to do as a result of there’s no justifiable motive that we’ve been given for him to do it, which is all the time vital. I feel so much about who dies and when and what individuals may take into consideration these deaths. Who has energy in that second? Who mistreats any person else in that second to create these darkish and horrible justifications?”
Happily 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 she or he advised me the complete arc of Victor’s character,” he tells Deadline. “So I knew the place we had been headed from earlier than I even acquired 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 try to create an arc that may finish and hopefully, make it as tragic and stunning as potential,” says Feliz. “Ouncesdoesn’t need any weaknesses. He simply skilled what it’s like when somebody he cares about is put by means of ache. I feel he doesn’t wish to really feel that weak once more, so he may as nicely simply take Victor out now earlier than somebody makes use of it in opposition to him.”
Feliz says the loss of life 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 sort of a giant 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 sequence, so I knew stepping into that it will be one and achieved. If there’s a strategy to exit, what higher method than to go down by the hands of the kingpin himself. And I’ve by no means died on display earlier than!”
