We were like, “Do you live on a farm? What is this? Where’s your halo?” At Christmas this year, he made us all homemade fruit preserves, which is just wonderful. He wants to get the best out of his scene partner, which is just an amazing quality in an actor like, yeah, I don’t know. It feels like he’s more on your side than his own, when you’re doing a scene with him. Turner and Duela are supposed to not get on very well and rub each other the wrong way, but we get on so well that it was hard. That’s a prominent dynamic in the first few episodes. It was quite hard to be wary of Olivia’s character, Duela. We had about 22 weeks, before we even started shooting, to just hang out and get to know each other, and we were all living in the same building. When we shot the pilot, we had a lot of time. MORGAN: Us actors from all over the place, piled together in a room, stuck there for eight months and disconnected from the outside world. What was it like to meet each of those actors, as they got cast in their roles, and to find the dynamic with each of them? It was just like building any other character.īecause your character was framed for murder, he’s working with a team made up of individuals that he probably never would have chosen to work with. The character was aware of Batman’s existence, living in Gotham, but he’s just your average person, so I didn’t feel like I had to build him to fit an archetype of the world of Gotham. That was the extent of it, with the bright colors. As a kid, I had seen the old sixties TV show, so that was my understanding of it. Before I did the show, I hadn’t seen a lot of Batman films. MORGAN: Building this character and thinking about who Turner was, I tried to understand Gotham as well as I could. I did about eight self-tapes and a couple of meetings, and Olivia and I did a chemistry read over Zoom. Since I got the part, they’ve gone very far away from that version of the character. A few months before I got the email about this show, I tested for David Rapaport, the casting director, on a different show, so when it came through, I was like, “Maybe this is that show.” But then, the character description, at the time, was like, “Muscled jock.” I messaged my manager and was like, “Maybe there are other roles I could go in for? This seems like a cool show, but this role is not for me.” Thankfully, they changed that. And then, eventually, I got into meetings. Week after week, it was another self-tape. What was the audition process like for this? Was it a long process where you had to wait a while to find out whether you’d get to do this, or did it all happen pretty quickly?
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