When Michael Chiklis sat down to discuss GOTHAM S3 at San Diego Comic Con over the summer, besides talking about his daughter Autumn’s love for Comic Con, he teased new things coming for Captain Barnes – the “inherent tension” between these two characters had always come from Jim going the “Vic Mackey” route and Barnes trying to stay on the right side of the law. He teases “something crazy happens.” And I cannot wait!
Over the summer at San Diego Comic Con, we had the chance to spend time talking to Aimee Garcia who is joining the cast of LUCIFER this summer with a quirky new character that will immediately confuse and surprise Ellis’ Luci. Aimee told us about joining the show, a great scene where she played with some improve in the premiere, and what it’s like working with this cast and crew. She’s a religious woman who works in the scientific field and Lucifer just cannot get a handle on figuring her out.
Writer and producer on GOTHAM, John Stephens, didn’t waste any time giving us a ton of great new character scoop when we sat down to discuss it all at San Diego Comic Con in July. It sounds like the seasons is moving full steam ahead, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
At San Diego Comic Con over the summer, Morena Baccarin promised that we’ll see Dr Lee Thompkins right from the get this season on GOTHAM, starting tonight. She and Jim had a rough time of it, and Jim and Leslie are in “very different places.”
LUCIFER’s showrunner Joe Henderson is one of our favorite people to talk to at events like San Diego Comic Con because he has a passion for the show, and an excitement for what LUCIFER will bring in S2 that is unrivaled. His excitement is infectious in the video from our round table as he talks about bringing Tricia Helfer’s Mom to the scene, how she’ll interact with the other characters, as well as bringing Dr Linda into the forefront a bit, what kind of romantic entanglements we might see this season, and above all, the Trixie of it.
When we caught up with Drew Powell (Butch Gilzean, GOTHAM) at San Diego Comic Con, he told us that he finds himself back with Penguin when S3 takes off tonight on FOX. They’re “up to no good, as usual.” The character seems to always find a way to get out of his jams, sometimes with hands and sometimes without! Drew also said that sad-sack lovelorn Butch is back – Tabitha really did a number on his heart, and he has to deal with that. Looking forward to a new battle we can expect this season.
One of the coolest EPs in the biz, Ildy Modrovich of LUCIFER gave us some good info on the genesis of Mom coming to the show in Season 2 while we talked with her at round tables in San Diego. She also let us in on a little secret about the battle of the bands they hold for WB shows shooting up near each other in the ‘Couve
Alfred is The Action Butler, as Sean Pertwee pointed out (mention his father being known as the Action Doctor), and this season will start off with him and Bruce in a fairly good place. They went through a lot in these first two seasons and as Bruce starts to grow up into the Batman we all know, it sounds like Alfred will be there to prop him up along the way.
Ben McKenzie promises us this year that Jim is a “disillusioned man” when GOTHAM season 3 starts up. Having lost his career, his love, his child, he’s lost himself. At Comic Con in San Diego, he previewed what we should expect from the season – new relationships, for him, for the good Dr, and the prospect of double dates (they don’t sound likely).
Tom Ellis, Lucy himself, was joined by one of this season’s newest additions, Tricia Helfer, who is playing, spoiler alert, his mother! The two gave us the details on what to expect from how Tricia’s Mom character impacts the cast, the family dynamics we’ve already seen, and what she might think of Trixie.