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The Penguin’s Shohreh Aghdashloo Couldn’t Let Nadia Stay Quiet
“I couldn’t help myself. I thought, She would have to say something here.”
In “Homecoming,” he burns alive Maroni matriarch Nadia, played by Shohreh Aghdashloo, and heir Taj (Aria Shahghasemi), making them the latest victims of his plan to ascend to the top of Gotham’s criminal ecosystem. The change was inspired by series creator and showrunner Lauren LeFranc writing Nadia specifically for the gravitas-exuding, distinctly gravelly voiced Aghdashloo (who was recovering from bronchitis when we spoke), and helps build out this contemporary version of Gotham as a multicultural city with myriad competing crime families jockeying for power. I’m intrigued by you saying it was difficult to turn Nadia from a housewife into a mob boss, because in the scenes you have with Clancy Brown as your husband, Sal, it really seems like you are his most trusted adviser.
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