I chatted with young Bruce Wayne himself, actor David Mazouz, earlier this week at FOX's Television Critics Association after party about the Batman prequel TV show's upcoming third season, during which time the subject of DC's live-action feature films came up. "I just saw Suicide Squad," said the actor, 15. "I loved it!"
Mazouz cited the characters as his main reason for enjoying the David Ayer-directed movie: "You love them. They were bad guys, but you love them. And that is something that we do on Gotham, if you look at someone like the Penguin. Any other incarnation of the Penguin that you see in the comic books, he's evil and just kind of this... and in Earth One by Geoff Johns, I'm thinking about it because I just read it, he's this mayor, and he's just evil. He's bad. There's nothing redeeming about him. He's just a bad guy. But with Gotham, you like him. He has redeeming qualities, he cares about his mom. And Robin Lord Taylor kills it, but you know that you're doing something right when you're rooting for the bad guy. He's a terrible, terrible person. He kills people with absolutely no regret. But you like him"
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Mazouz cited the characters as his main reason for enjoying the David Ayer-directed movie: "You love them. They were bad guys, but you love them. And that is something that we do on Gotham, if you look at someone like the Penguin. Any other incarnation of the Penguin that you see in the comic books, he's evil and just kind of this... and in Earth One by Geoff Johns, I'm thinking about it because I just read it, he's this mayor, and he's just evil. He's bad. There's nothing redeeming about him. He's just a bad guy. But with Gotham, you like him. He has redeeming qualities, he cares about his mom. And Robin Lord Taylor kills it, but you know that you're doing something right when you're rooting for the bad guy. He's a terrible, terrible person. He kills people with absolutely no regret. But you like him"
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