“I got to really dive into my Joker fandom,” he says. I was like ‘oh can I get a little too artsy with my wide shots? Should I have gotten a little more coverage?’ But then my editor said that that was her favorite scene to edit because they just bring this powerful thing together.”Īnother dream come true for Johnson was working with the Joker. “I was worried because-I liked the way that we shot it, but as we were shooting, I got nervous. “These black women came in there and they did not play around! They both made me cry at different moments,” he says. Johnson says of costars Javicia Leslie and Robin Givens: And when time runs out, Ryan outs herself as Batwoman when she saves Jada from Zsasz. This doesn’t immediately fix things between them, but it does begin to build trust.
While the clock is ticking down, Jada reveals the truth about her past and Ryan’s birth. So what I wanted to make sure in this scene was that they were having fun and that we were finding that comedy and they were letting themselves enjoy it.” THE TRUTH ABOUT JADA AND RYANĪnother big moment happens when Zsasz holds Jada and Ryan at gunpoint, and threatens to kill Jada if Batwoman fails to appear. It’s the clowning around the laughing, it’s the giggling, it’s the joking around. “The fun of romance is the imperfection,” he says. Johnson was intent on making the scene enjoyable for the cast, crew, and audience. “Everyone was comfortable and most importantly, everyone was having fun.” “I talked to them as much as I could on the phone and in person beforehand, just to make sure that no one was doing anything they didn’t want to do,” Johnson tells us by phone. He utilized intimacy coordinators on the set, and had artists storyboard the entire scene to give the performers the complete idea. Ryan and Sophie getting together is a thing fans (me) have been waiting for, and as the director, Johnson was mindful of doing it right. Much closer in Ryan and Sophie’s case, as the episode ends with the pair having sex for the first time. Amidst the chicanery, characters reveal themselves, and get closer to each other. The Joker’s toymaker, Kiki Roulette, pretends to help Mary and Alice, only to betray them and give the joybuzzer to Marquis.
Marquis sends Zsasz after Jada, and Ryan gets caught in the crosshairs. In “Broken Toys,” Marquis Jet is on the loose, and the Bat Team needs to fix the joybuzzer so they can try to save him.
We talked to him about his directorial debut, his favorite scenes to shoot, and more. The episode, which also saw Ryan Wilder and Jada Jett come to Jesus, was directed by the show’s very own Luke Fox, Camrus Johnson. Last night’s episode of Batwomanfinally made Wildmoore canon.