The Batman Epic Crime Saga is more than just a film series starring Robert Pattinson as Gotham City’s Dark Knight. Last year, The Penguin pointed the spotlight on Colin Farrell’s Oswald “Oz” Cobblepot for eight episodes and was rewarded for that effort with numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe win for Farrell and an Emmy win for Sofia Falcone actress Cristin Milioti. And as CinemaBlend recently learned, The Batman director Matt Reeves, who was among The Penguin’s executive producers, actually “liberated” the HBO show’s team in a key way that I’m sure contributed to its success.
During my conversation with production designer Kalina Ivanov about her work on Peacemaker Season 2 (including a wild fact about Earth-X’s Hitler mural), we also talked about her experience on The Penguin, which netted her an Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Television Movie or Limited Series. Here’s what Ivanov told me when I asked her how difficult a balance it was making sure that the locations in The Penguin looked similar to what we saw in The Batman, but still put a unique spin on them:
