Brian Truitt

USA TODAY

Robin Lord Taylor is moving up in the pop-culture world, from supervillain crime boss on Fox's Gotham to god-like figure in the new video game Dishonored 2.

In this week's episode of The Mothership, USA TODAY's geek culture podcast, Brett Molina (@brettmolina23) and Brian Truitt (@briantruitt) interview the actor about his voice role as the Outsider in the video-game sequel, his top games of all time and what his fine-feathered bad guy Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin, has been up to this season on Gotham.

And in our Nerd Alert segment, Brian breaks down his thoughts on the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and if there's some magic in the new movie franchise.

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