Robin Lord Taylor Talks Initial Fan Backlash Over Playing the Penguin on 'Gotham' (1)

Robin Lord Taylor snagged the chance of a Hollywood lifetime when he got the role of the Penguin for Fox's hit series Gotham. But with such a huge role comes a huge amount of passion from the fans who love Batman's famous nemesis, and the actor says it wasn't all positive.

"We got a lot of blowback and skepticism," he recalls of the initial announcement of Gotham. "Which is fair, I totally get it. People have ownership over these characters, they take it very seriously. When my casting was announced, I got a lot of it too. Like, 'He looks too much like this!' or 'He looks too much like that!' or 'He's not enough this, not enough that.' I never experienced that before."