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

I'd stalk her.

this show needs to change its name to Batman Origins:Penguin and focus on cobblepot the falcone's and maroni's

@Rormachine

She's South African, not American...

I wonder when they are going to throw The Joker in the mix.

Batz thanks, read it wrong on Wiki!

I liked the change Arkham made and its cool how its now added into the mythos

@ADV3point0

You mean Arkham Origins, not Arkham City

She was naked on Spartacus FYI

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.

@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.

Hey, a gun and black leather. Awesome, exciting, original, and totally on point.

Or not, whatever, that's fine.

@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.