Yet there’s still athirdcharacter that audiences have yet to see and Monaghan says its the best one yet.
Look, it all kinda makes sense when you watch it (read our final season review).
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This has been such a weird character for you.
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Your characterhas died, was resurrected, died again and then was replaced by his twin brother.
What’s that even like?
It’s a weird challenge.
It’s definitely an extremely unique challenge that’s unique to the comic book medium.
It’s a joy to play characters so heightened and insane as these are.
But I definitely didn’t have any concept of where the story was going.
So how would you describeJeremiah at this point in the story vs. Jerome?
I would say the transformation is not fully complete yet.
Jeremiah at this juncture is much more methodical and obsessive.
Jerome was more of a throw everything at the wall and see what sticks kind of dude.
I find Jeremiah is very exacting and precise.
He doesn’t believe he’s insane.
Every action he takes is trying to bring Bruce to his side.
Whereas Jerome was more of a generalized chaos kind of person.
Which is more fun to play?
They’re both a complete joy.
I’ve had a lot of fun with Jeremiah in season 5.
So I had to take the extreme of Jeremiah of making him much more stoic.
He’s eccentric as like a David Bowie key in.
He’s foppish a little bit.
I took a lot of inspiration from Tim Curry inRocky Horror Picture Show.
He’s this eccentric, flamboyant, arrogant character.
What’s been the weirdest or toughest scene for you to shoot?
The only way to do this scene was to do one long 20-minute take with all the extras there.
So it was like doing a short play and required a lot of communication and precision.
The final product turned out pretty decent but it was a hard thing to do.
Our critic noted that you haveplayed two of the best Jokers ever.
That was the case when I talked about it prior.
It’s one of the coolest opportunities I’ve ever had.
As an actor that must have been frustrating for a while though.
Wasn’t that kind of frustrating?
It looks like that one of these guys are going to become him.
Is Jeremiah somehow redeemable in a way Jerome wasn’t?
It’s hard to tell.
I’m not sure if Jerome was necessarily irredeemable either.
He’s the victim of terrible circumstances.
Is there any chance of seeing Jerome again, somehow?
The spirit of Jerome lives inside of Jeremiah.
We’re seeing this confluence of ideologies within Jeremiah creating this new thing.
One finalGothamquestion: They’re not secretly triplets, are they?
No secret other twin.
we’re seeing a very linear story arc with Jeremiah.
