
Next Monday, FOX airs the all-new episode of
Gotham, titled "Beasts of Prey," which introduces the character of the Ogre, played by Milo Ventimiglia, a serial killer who targers young women and goes after those close to anyone who investigates him.
Ventimiglia recently talked to the digital media about his work on the show.
The actor first talked to SciFi Vision about how he got the role of the Ogre. "I got a phone call from my agent saying that they wanted me, and I said, "Great." I’m a huge fan of Bruno Heller, his work, and I’m longtime friends of Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue, and I’ve been watching the show. And it was just one of those things where I had those connections, and then I went, "I’m free at the moment. So this sounds like a lot of fun." "
Ventimiglia also talked to the site about how the Ogre on
Gotham is different from the original in the comics. "He is different than what’s in the DC universe. I took what was on the page, written by Bruno Heller’s team, and I pretty much went off of that. And my understanding of what they were looking for in a serial killer was a guy who was just looking for love, and as simple as it sounds, but as complex as it may be, and I just went with everything was off the page as it was written, knowing that it wasn’t a direct pull from the DC universe and the original Ogre. So it was actually exciting and fun and simple, because they wrote a really, really complex, dark character that was a lot of fun to play."