‘Gotham’: Robin Lord Taylor Confirms He Will Wear A Fat Suit For Penguin After Time Jump

During an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show, Gotham star Robin Lord Taylor confirmed he will wear a fat suit for his role as the Penguin in the final season of the series.

Gotham is set to conclude this year and Robin Lord Taylor’s The Penguin will soon become the iconic Batman villain fans remembers from the pages of DC Comics. While the character has gradually gained power and lost his sanity over the course of the series, Taylor assured fans they will see the Penguin from the comics before the show wraps:

“We jump forward at the end of the season so we’ll actually get a glimpse of the Penguin that we all grew up [on].”

After confirming he will wear a fat suit for his role as future Penguin, Robin Lord Taylor explained that the Penguin won’t look like a cartoon:

“It’s interesting, because I was talking to our costume designer John Glaser, and I was saying I don’t want him to be a cartoon-like, I was thinking of like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka.  I didn’t want that kind of look so we went with something a little more monstrous and there’s a hunch on his back. He’s becoming a monster in this season.”

Gotham continues next week with the episode titled “Ruin” and you can read the official synopsis below:

HAVEN COMES UNDER ATTACK ON AN ALL-NEW “GOTHAM” THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, ON FOX – Gordon and Penguin are forced to work together and alliances are shaken when Lucius, Nygma and Barbara all have different ideas of the culprit behind recent events at Haven. Meanwhile, Selina continues her quest for revenge against Jeremiah (guest star Cameron Monaghan) in the all-new “Ruin” episode of GOTHAM.

Gotham stars Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Detective Harvey Bullock, Morena Baccarin as Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/The Riddler, and Chris Chalk as Lucius Fox.

Gotham airs on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. on FOX.

Source: The Wendy Williams Show (via ComicBook.com)