GOTHAM: First Look At Lesley-Ann Brandt As 'Copperhead'

GOTHAM: First Look At Lesley-Ann Brandt As 'Copperhead'

Fox seem to have done a very good job of keeping this quiet, but their take on DC villain Copperhead makes his her debut on tonight's fall finale of Gotham, "Lovecraft". See some snaps of lovely South-African actress Lesley-Ann Brandt after the jump.

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 24, 2014 07:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Gotham
Source: the Wrap
DC Comics fans will know that Copperhead was originally a male character, but the snake-like assassin was given a female makeover for the Batman: Arkham Origins video game, and Gotham have evidently followed suit. In tonight's epsode, "Lovecraft", Copperhead (real name Larissa Diaz) will be played by Lesley-Ann Brandt, and The Wrap have provided some stills.

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Selina leads a new friend on a perilous journey through Gotham to evade the assassins on her trail. Following a misstep, Gordon is reassigned to duty at Arkham Asylum in the all-new “Lovecraft” episode of GOTHAM airing Monday, Nov. 17 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GTH-109) (TV-14 D, L, V) Cast: Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney, Sean Pertwee as Alfred, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne, Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Zabryna Guevara as Captain Sarah Essen, Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma/the future Riddler, Victoria Cartagena as Renee Montoya, Andrew Stewart Jones as Crispus Allen, John Doman as Carmine Falcone Guest Cast: Richard Kind as Mayor James, Drew Powell as Butch Gilzean, Mackenzie Leigh as Liza, Nicholas D’Agosto as Harvey Dent, Leslie Odom Jr. as Ian Hargrove, Luke Forbes as John Hargrove.
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SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/24/2014, 7:55 AM
I'd stalk her.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 11/24/2014, 7:59 AM
SKOne
SKOne - 11/24/2014, 7:59 AM
So, one metahuman hunting the other. She looks great. I really want to give this show the benefit of the doubt, but they are going to have to introduce a DC hero character at some point (I personally feel Dr. Midnite would be perfect) for this show to have any longevity after Joker finally appears in the season finale.
ZeoTV
ZeoTV - 11/24/2014, 8:04 AM
this show needs to change its name to Batman Origins:Penguin and focus on cobblepot the falcone's and maroni's
batz11
batz11 - 11/24/2014, 8:06 AM
She was a much better Naevia on Spartacus (than Cynthia Addai-Robinson, who's now on Arrow)...

She was boinking Deathstroke too, what the hell...crossover?
batz11
batz11 - 11/24/2014, 8:08 AM
@Rormachine

She's South African, not American...
ManThing
ManThing - 11/24/2014, 8:10 AM
I wonder when they are going to throw The Joker in the mix.
cocaegelo
cocaegelo - 11/24/2014, 8:12 AM
So..everybody in Gotham is waaaay too old. When bruce become Batman he will fight with the geriatric part of the Arkham.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 11/24/2014, 8:14 AM
Batz thanks, read it wrong on Wiki!
McGee
McGee - 11/24/2014, 8:16 AM
@SuperCat
NinjaKickTheDamnRabbit
NinjaKickTheDamnRabbit - 11/24/2014, 8:18 AM
So I don't get that Dent is older then Bruce when they are supposed to grow up and be friends. Seriously they need to slow down a little with the Batman villians. They are all going to be 50-60 by the time Bruce takes up the cowl. Also what time period is this? Old cars but cops have cells?
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 11/24/2014, 8:22 AM
@NinjaKickTHeDamnRabbit

I think they were going for a stylised time period kinda like how they did in The Animated Series.
FordEl
FordEl - 11/24/2014, 8:22 AM
I liked the change Arkham made and its cool how its now added into the mythos
FordEl
FordEl - 11/24/2014, 8:22 AM
Catwoman vs Copperhead would be an interesting fight
osideous
osideous - 11/24/2014, 8:30 AM
@cocaegelo im in agreement with you. Grifdeadpoolteabag it's not a stupid quip. it's legitimate considering. Bruce is like 10-12 and everyone else is in their mid to late 20's. Gordon should be older than Bullock. and Harvey Dent is supposed to be Bruce's age. I mean those two grew up together. the show is great, but let's not try and hide the serious [frick]ed up age gap.
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 11/24/2014, 8:45 AM
Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne didn't grow up together. I honestly don't know where some commenter are getting this from. It's not from the comics. They met as adults. Harvey Dent was the District Attorney when Batman began his career. A D.A. is the highest member of a district's legal department. A skilled attorney who is either elected or appointed to the position. D.A.'s are not young men. They are older men.

If Harvey Dent is to be the D.A. around the time Bruce becomes Batman, which would be a good 10-12 years in this series' future, then he'd be in his 30s or 40s at that point. So, it makes sense for him to be in his mid-late 20s in this series. It definitely wouldn't make sense for him to be Bruce's age and become D.A. in his mid-late 20s.
HAQ
HAQ - 11/24/2014, 8:46 AM

DeltaActual
DeltaActual - 11/24/2014, 8:50 AM
Too much .... Way too much. They are cramming everyone Batman eventually faces into this show. I am losing interest every time they announce something from this show.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 11/24/2014, 8:59 AM
aknightinarkham
aknightinarkham - 11/24/2014, 9:19 AM
Copperhead isn't quite as obscure a villain as I was hoping Gotham would go (Ratcatcher FTW) but she's better than frigging Harvey Dent.
aknightinarkham
aknightinarkham - 11/24/2014, 9:20 AM
@ADV3point0

You mean Arkham Origins, not Arkham City
Foolsgoldfinger
Foolsgoldfinger - 11/24/2014, 9:21 AM
@cocaegelo Bruce Wayne is around 13. Selina Kyle is around Bruce's age. Cobblepot, Nygma and Dent are in their early to mid-twenties. Gordon is in his early thirties. Bruce becomes Batman in his twenties, which would make Catwoman in her twenties, Penguin, Riddler and Two-Face in their thirties and Gordon in his forties. What's the problem???
aknightinarkham
aknightinarkham - 11/24/2014, 9:23 AM
She was naked on Spartacus FYI
Kyos
Kyos - 11/24/2014, 9:50 AM
I just can't forgive her for leaving Spartacus, so that they had to recast Naevia. That pretty much ruined the character and the dynamics with Crixus and Ashur. And for what?

Many people were giving Liam McIntyre a hard time when he had the rather unthankful job of taking over the titular role after Andy Whitfield tragically passed away. I thought he did a solid job, all things considered.

Cynthia Addai-Robinson did a solid job as well, but a new actress who looked nothing like the old one and who took over the role in a critical phase of character development was just bad. Suddenly there was a character called "Naevia", who looked completely different from when we last saw her and behaved completely different as well due to developments in the story. Likely would have been better to just write in a new character instead.

I try to keep myself from getting seriously angry about things like movies and shows, but damn, I am still angry at Lesley-Ann Brandt for leaving and the producers for letting her go. >:(

Serves her right to get a small part on my least favourite CBTV show.
NoPhucksGiven
NoPhucksGiven - 11/24/2014, 9:54 AM
Copperhead has cute little buns.
AngelaB
AngelaB - 11/24/2014, 10:03 AM
@Kyos
Granted Cynthia Addai Robinson did not look much like Lesley Ann Brandt, but Cynthia worked much better with Manu Bennett/Crixus. They had a real dynamic together due to Manu being able to connect with Cynthia as an actor, whereas Lesley was too focused on herself. He said the best part of playing Crixus was when another actress took over the Naevia role--that doesn't say much about Brandt as a person (or actor).

Remember Lesley Ann left the show because she didn't get the money raise she asked for her. It was a tacky stunt to pull when Andy Whitfield became sick again and thus had to stall season two. Her career dwindling is karma and I'm glad the producers gave her the boot, that attitude wont get you anywhere.

Naevia actually still behaved the same way in Vengeance, it wasn't until War of the Damned where the character took a turn.
AngelaB
AngelaB - 11/24/2014, 10:05 AM
@batz11 I disagree. As Naevia, Lesley Ann Brandt delivered all her lines in the same emotionless voice. Cynthia Addai Robinson had more presence. It's just too bad they took the character off the deep end in the last season, considering all the progress she had just made regarding handling her inner demons.
OptionFour
OptionFour - 11/24/2014, 10:09 AM
Hey, a gun and black leather. Awesome, exciting, original, and totally on point.

Or not, whatever, that's fine.
batz11
batz11 - 11/24/2014, 10:18 AM
@AngelaB yeah, maybe it was just more of the direction of the character...I also hate recasting, probably more to do with that too...
Kyos
Kyos - 11/24/2014, 2:19 PM
@AngelaB

I hate unneccessary recasting, always have, likely always will. I kind of liked Addai-Robinson, but until the end of the show I was never really able to bring my mind to connecting her with the Naevia from S1 and Gods of the Arena. Her scenes with Crixus and probably even more Ashur just didn't work for me because of it.

So whatever kind of unpleasant person Brandt might or might not be (her departure didn't gain her any sympathies, that's for sure) - for my viewing pleasure it would've been way better if she'd stayed. In S3 I'd already reached a point where I'd simply stopped caring about the character at all.
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