Cristin Milioti would ‘love to revisit’ her ‘Penguin’ character

Cristin Milioti isn’t ready to say goodbye to The Penguin.

The Palm Springs star discussed her reaction to her Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the DC crime series during a conversation with Entertainment Weekly‘s The Awardist podcast on Tuesday, and said that she hopes to eventually return to her character, Sofia Gigante.

“It feels unfinished to me for sure,” Milioti told EW. “Oh my God. I mean, I would love to revisit her, especially because of where we last see her. So to me, it doesn’t feel finished, but I don’t know. We’ll see.”

Milioti clarified that conversations to bring The Penguin (and her character) back do not include her “at this moment,” but she remains enthusiastic about playing Sofia again. “That’s a question for people who are above my pay grade,” she said. “But yeah, I know that I would love to anyway.”

A follow-up to Matt Reeves’ 2022 movie The Batman focusing on Colin Farrell’s conniving Oswald Cobb, The Penguin landed 24 Emmy nominations on Thursday morning, making it the second-most-nommed show of the year (behind Severance, which nabbed 27 nominations). The show’s other nominees include Farrell, Deirdre O’Connell (in Supporting Actress for a Limited Series or Movie), writer Lauren LeFranc, and directors Jennifer Getzinger and Helen Shaver.

“It’s a very fabulous day,” Milioti told EW. “I’m so thrilled for our show. I’m so thrilled for my fellow cast. I’m so thrilled for our crew to be recognized at this level with 24 nominations. It’s just really overwhelming.”

Milioti acknowledged that although playing a traumatized, murderous character led her to “some dark places” in her performance “both emotionally and physically,” she loved the process of playing Sofia nonetheless.

“I really mean this when I say it: It was also a joy to get to explore those things because I had been wishing for a role like this and searching for a role like this for a while,” the actress explained. “I knew when this role came to me, how special it was, and I really connected with it. I connect with Lauren’s writing and her brain so deeply. And so it was a pleasure to go to those places because I believe in this show and I believe in this character. So it was taxing, but in a good way.”

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Milioti also said that awards shows tend to make her “very sentimental” because they facilitate reunions between cast and crew members who have moved on to other projects. “My favorite part of them is getting to be reunited with everyone from The Penguin, ’cause we shot it a long time ago, and our characters also are often separated, so we don’t really get to hang that much,” she said. “And that’s been really, really lovely. And I really, deeply hope we get to revisit this in some way. And this won’t be a sort of final celebratory moment, but we don’t know.”

Listen to the full conversation with Milioti, as well as interviews with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story‘s Cooper Koch and Dying for Sex‘s Jenny Slate, above.