Rhenzy Feliz knows how to keep a secret. star dabbled in the superhero genre on ’s , but Feliz was involved with a shocker like the one we saw this Sunday night. Playing the role of the Penguin’s sidekick, Victor Aguilar, Feliz is part of the most gut-wrenching twist that HBO has pulled off since finale.
Let me set the scene. When the spin-off series begins, Victor is a wayward teenager looking for any way to escape the slums of Gotham. A chance encounter puts him in the path of the Penguin, who is played by a transformative .
They foster a father-and-son relationship as two outcasts gaming the system of the city's criminal underbelly. Well, at least until the heartbreaking season finale ends in cold-blooded murder. The Penguin simply decides that Victor knows too much about his crimes, so he kills him.
Now that Feliz can finally discuss the finale, he’s ecstatic. “It was gruesome,” the 27-year-old actor tells me of his final scene. “By the end, you’ve grown to like Victor a bit—and you need to like Victor so that when he kills me you hate Oz.
” As much as audiences fell in love with Farrell’s performance over the course of , Victor’s death solidified the Batman’s villain’s cruelty. That seemed impossible just a week ago. Gotham's very own Tony Soprano was the only reason to turn on your television for the past two months.
Still, it was 's job to sell Farrell's character as a formidable villain before he shows up in , which will hit theaters in 2026. .
