Gotham’s Robin Lord-Taylor has confirmed that he’s about to go full Penguin in the season five time-jump…complete with the iconic fat suit.

The actor, who has been playing the power-hungry Oswald Cobblepot throughout the show’s run, confirmed on the Wendy Williams Show that the dapper man who ‘waddles like a penguin’ will actually end up looking like one too.

He confirmed: ‘We jump forward at the end of the season so we actually get a glimpse of the Penguin that we all know and love.’


The Penguin’s transformation is almost complete (Picture: Giovanni Rufino / FOX)

After years of elements of the character slowly creeping in to the series of Gotham, Robin revealed that the ten-year time jump confirmed by actor Cameron Monaghan last week will bring around a whole new Penguin.



‘I was talking to our costume designer I was saying like, I don’t want him to be like a cartoon, like, I was thinking like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka! I didn’t want that kind of look,’ he explained.

‘So we went with something a little more monstrous, there’s a hunch on his back …He’s becoming a monster.’

Oswald Cobblepot has been always been short and round like a Penguin – and Danny DeVito’s portrayal sent chills around the world (Picture: Rex)

The Penguin has been brought to life from the comic books several times throughout the history of the Batman franchise.

He’s always been portrayed on screen and in the DC lore as a short and rotund character with a pointed nose (like a beak), wearing a black and white suit and a dark scowl.

In 1992, Danny DeVito played the character with a penchant for fish and taking over Gotham city, and sent chills through anyone who watched Tim Burton’s dark adaptation of the politician’s origin story.

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Meanwhile, in the new version of Gotham, which is ending at the end of this season, Penguin has been fast running out of allies in the battle for Gotham in season five of the Fox favourite, after claiming all the ammo available as his own.

However, we’ve been teased with an unlikely team up with Jim Gordon, as a threat bigger than each other threatens to wipe them out completely.

Gotham season 5 continues Wednesdays on Fox in the US and a later date in the UK.

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