"I knew, I had talked to the creator of the show, Bruno Heller, for a while. Well, actually, it wasn't necessarily a conversation, I was on the phone and I just listened for 15 minutes, and, like, scribbled onto a legal pad every word that he was saying. Because, we didn't have the script ahead of time, and all we had was the first script, and I had like one scene that was gonna last for like 25 seconds, and I'm like 'how the – am I gonna build a character off of this? This is insane.' You know, like, if you have a theatre script or a film script, you know, it's like the entire canvas is in front of you, and you're like 'alright, that's what it looks like, that is the trajectory of this character, and now i get to like fill in everything else' but I'm like, looking at a canvas, I don't know where the end is, and it's like a little ink blot right here, and I was like 'I don't know what to do with this.' So I was like 'Bruno, you gotta help me out here' and he was like 'well here's what we're thinking of doing with Ed' and it was, he talked about, having me look up autism and aspergers and, like, what those qualities are in a human being, and what it's like to have difficulty with social eptitude[sic]"
Cory discussing the physicality of playing Edward Nygma. Conversations with Robin Lord Taylor and Cory Michael Smithof GOTHAM
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