Casting is ramping up on forthcoming TV series Gotham , with the show finding one of its villains in the shape of Jada Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith in The Matrix Reloaded.

According to Deadline , Smith will play Fish Mooney, “an imposing, hot-headed and notoriously sadistic gangster boss and nightclub owner with street smarts and almost extra-sensory abilities to read people like an open book who is not one to be crossed.”It’s already been announced that Robin Lord Taylor will play Oswald Cobblepot, who in this version of the story is a low-level psychopath who works for Mooney. And as previously reported , Ben McKenzie will play the show’s lead, James Gordon, although there’s no word yet on when the show will screen on FOX.

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