The way Cristin Milioti saunters through the halls of the Falcone manor in a flowing chic cocktail dress, her face covered by a gas mask as she counts the dead bodies in her wake, evokes Michelle Pfeiffer. Milioti’s character on HBO’s The Penguin, Sofia Falcone, just finished gassing most of the key players within her mobster family’s underworld dynasty in their sleep as retribution for years of betrayals. She now surveys her handiwork and does so with the same panache Pfeiffer once channeled as Selena Kyle in Tim Burton’s 1992 classic Batman Returns. To Milioti, this is the highest of compliments.
“I’m sure that performance is always somewhere [in my head],” the South Jersey native tells Entertainment Weekly, “in the way that all those performances that you watch as a kid, that are so meaningful for you, take up permanent residence. I was 7 when Batman Returns came out and I saw it in theaters. It terrified me, but I also wanted to put it directly into my…
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