Cameron Monaghan Reveals He’s Playing a Mystery Third Character on Gotham

Entertainment Weekly recently interviewed actor Cameron Monaghan, who discussed the final season of Gotham and his role as Jerome Valeska. In the show, Jerome is a character who has a lot of remarkable similarities to the Batman villain The Joker. He also portrays Jerome’s twin brother, Jeremiah, who has also been turned insane. During the interview, Monaghan revealed he’s playing yet another character this season who the audience hasn’t seen yet. Below are some highlights.

Monaghan on liberties for the final season: “I will say we’ve been given certain liberties in this final season that we haven’t been given before that’s going to make itself pretty apparent as you watch it. All I’ll say is when you have an episode that’s a full-on Batman episode running around in the future, you’re going to have characters that you’ll expect to see. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say at this point that it’s 10 years in the future — that’s been talked about openly by the producers and showrunners — I don’t want to say exactly what my role in that is, but it was kick ass. It’s one of the coolest opportunities I’ve ever had.”

Monaghan on Jeremiah’s transformation in Gotham: “I would say the transformation is not fully complete yet. Jeremiah at this juncture is much more methodical and obsessive. Jerome was more of a throw everything at the wall and see what sticks kind of dude. I find Jeremiah is very exacting and precise. He doesn’t believe he’s insane. He thinks his behavior is a natural response to the order and he has a very distinct plan to convince the one person that he really cares about to get onto his side and see his worldview and that’s Bruce. Every action he takes is trying to bring Bruce to his side. Whereas Jerome was more of a generalized chaos kind of person.”

Monaghan on a mystery third character he’s playing this season on Gotham: “Every time I came back I was told I was going to be killed off at the end of that arc. [Jeremiah’s] this eccentric, flamboyant, arrogant character. But the character I most enjoyed playing is the one in the final episode that we haven’t seen yet. Not triplets! No secret other twin. we’re seeing a very linear story arc with Jeremiah.”