Come see Gotham’s newest baddie at Vulture Festival , November 16 and 17 in Los Angeles, where we’ll be talking to Cristin Milioti. It was all for the penthouse view. An ivory tower to climb, conquer, and breathe the rarefied air of the Falcones, Bruce Wayne, Bella Reál, and every other Gotham City elite, cop, or criminal.
In conversation with Andy Serkis for Interview magazine, The Batman director Matt Reeves described Oz Cobb’s rise as a “dark American dream story.” At a young age, Oswald correctly identified a world of haves and have-nots, responding in kind with the type of atomized sociopathy that the American dream emboldens — even to the point of locking your own brothers in a watery grave. “His life is one of being rejected, and part of his ambition is driven by seeking some acceptance,” says Reeves.
“He is underestimated. He’s mocked. Everyone perceives him to a degree as a joke, but he has all of these deep-seated ambitions within him from his brokenness.
” In its final chapter, The Penguin holds a mirror to the Oz Cobb lurking inside every American: a sad, deformed child with no viable path in life except the false one leading back to the comfort of the womb. The Penguin finale opens with a Dr. Rush–induced flashback where Francis relives the moment she decided to end the life of her last living son.
Tough beat, by the way, that Rex Calabrese — the guy Oz based his whole populist branding and work ethic around — was the guy who not only.
