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Marié Botha Talks Bringing Magpie To Life In ‘The Penguin’ & Dream ‘Harry Potter’ Role (INTERVIEW)

Heroic Hollywood sat down with Marié Botha, the actress behind the enigmatic inmate Magpie, to break down her role in the critically acclaimed series.

And I think in a few interviews Matt [Reeves] and Craig Zobel and Lauren LeFranc have said that for his point-of-view they did sort of look into shooting with shots from below and finding locations under bridgeways and in alleys, which was great. When I got the part, I immediately ordered all of the Magpie comics off of eBay and really created a nice thick sheet of given circumstances and cold hard facts about her, and then I sort of colored in the blanks and drew from my favorite villains, not just in this universe, but Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. And what that does to your growth as a person how that maybe stunts it a little bit and how that turns her into this kind of little girl persona but with a lot of anger underneath that undercuts her performance.

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