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How ‘The Penguin’ Star Cristin Milioti Delivers Her Tour-de-Force Performance as Sofia Falcone: ‘I Had the Time of My Life’
"The Penguin" star Cristin Milioti discusses her tour-de-force performance in Episode 4 and how filming in Arkham Asylum felt "like a play."
So in 2022, when Milioti was approached about playing the unhinged mobster Sofia Falcone in “The Penguin” — starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb, the role he originated in Matt Reeves’ 2022 blockbuster “The Batman” — she was understandably wary of further disappointment. Overnight, Sofia’s posh and privileged life turns upside down: After becoming a tabloid sensation as a serial killer, she’s sent to Arkham, where she’s brutalized both by her fellow inmates and the physicians tasked with her care, despite her constant, panicked protestations of her innocence. By the end of the episode, back in the present day, Sofia calmly waits until her family is asleep in the Carmine mansion, and then pipes carbon monoxide throughout the house, gassing them all to death — save her young niece and the Falcone underboss, Johnny Viti (Michael Kelly).
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