Cristin Milioti knows that Sofia Falcone is an iconic Batman Villain in The Penguin

The moment Sofia Falcone walks into that fateful family dinner wearing that yellow dress The Penguinfourth episode, “One Hundred Years”, Actress Cristin Milioti solidified the character as one of the best Batman villains ever. His canary in the coal mine moment is one of the best scenes of the show, and was created in a collaboration between Milioti, penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc and director Helen Shaver.

Then we saw the events that led the mob heir to be scapegoated by his father for the murders at the hands of the Hangman and his trauma in Arkham because of him; she was freed from her sins only after her death in The Batman. But even then, his freedom came with more bad juju, no thanks to Oz, who quickly lost his brother and his drug empire plans in the present day. In “Cent’anni”, she was in front of her family who continued to gas her by sending her to Italy in an attempt to take her power like many others before her.

In an interview with IndieWireThe actress shared how much of a team effort it was to create her dream Batman villain role with LeFranc. “Pretty much as soon as I signed up. I had an hour-long phone call with Lauren where she walked me through everything, and then I had the first four scripts,” Milioti said. “I’ve had time to call and talk to her and really sit down with them and study them, and she’s kind of walked me through the last four in terms of what’s going on, the big events here, but so I got it pretty soon after signing up.”

From the beginning Milioti was game for anything. “I’m a big fan of Batman, my lifelong dream is to be a Batman villain and to be able to really see his whole story. So it comes from the brain of a woman, you can like the feeling, you can feel “, he said.

The yellow dress has launched quite a Reddit thread where to find it; in fact, it was created by costume designer Helen Huang especially for the moment when Sofia enters her power. “I had 10,000 accessories for that dress,” she said. “We were in constant conversation with Helen about what would be the freest flow and allow you to see this body language – it’s the first time you see her really breathe, and experience joy, and experience lightness … but we want that it shows all the scars, and then we also knew he was going with this gas mask eventually, so he also wanted to do something with his eyes where you could see through the visor of the gas mask.

Milioti described Sofia’s entrance on the scene as showing her “new war painting”, and noting that “there has been a change in her”. Combining all these things was so exciting. And even knowing that we were building this Batman villain, like when are you going to do this?”

Milioti hopes she will return to the role as we all do, as there are “endless possibilities” where Sofia can go next.

“Obviously I want to see her out of Arkham. That’s like number one. I don’t want her there. So I want to see her out of there, and then exact revenge,” he said. “Maybe now he would be even more of a loose cannon, because before he was quite focused on him and gaining power, but depending on what happens to him here, he could be an even bigger target. I would like to explain that.”

The Penguin is streaming on Max.

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