Gotham: Jessica Lucas Talks Tigress Costume

The Mad Hatter may have made his way to Gotham tonight, but some fans are still waiting for Jessica Lucas to suit up as Tigress.

Will the actress ever get a costume? Well, she hopes so.

“Of course, yeah. I’m hoping for that eventually,” Lucas told ComicBook.com’s Good Knight Gotham aftershow. “Right now we’re still focused on building up who Tabitha Galavan it and establishing more of that. Eventually I tink the plan is to turn her into Tigress. I don’t know what the writers have in store or when that’s going to happen, but I hope it happens. That would be awesome.”

You can check out her full interview below.

She noted that there’s really not much of a blueprint for how or if that might happen because — even ignoring the fact that Gotham tends to take plenty of liberties with its existing DC characters — the Tabitha Galavan version of Tigress is not one that exists in the comics.

“I felt like I had free reign to do what I wanted” with the character, Lucas said, noting that since Tigress isn’t exactly a household name, so it’s kind of nice to know the odds of her disappointing lots of fans by not sticking to a strict script are pretty small.

She talked at some length about the tensions between her character and Robin Lord Taylor’s Penguin, saying that she doesn’t believe Penguin will move against Tabitha because of her relationship with Butch, whom Penguin respects…

…at least until the fifth episode of this season, when she says the Butch/Penguin/Tabitha dynamic might get a significant shakeup.

Supergirl airs on Mondays at 8 p.m.; The Flash on Tuesdays at the same time, Arrow on Wednesdays, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow on Thursdays. The Flash will debut its new episodes on The CW starting October 4; Arrow, October 5; Supergirl, October 10; and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow October 13.