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Magda/Rio/Elsa/Alex - Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)

To play multiple characters is a great gambit for an actor, and it flexes a muscle that I was curious about. But truly it is the themes that drew me; the dangers of demagoguery, demonization of others. Is mankind innately selfish, prejudiced, or is there something fundamentally good about being a human being? – Natalie Dormer on her character(s) in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. (x)

Natalie Dormer as Magda in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020- )

Gillian Anderson in Crooked House - production stills (2017)

Rio is another one of Magda’s personas. She is the red-headed bisexual ringleader of a Chicano gang known as the Pachucos.

There will come a time when the world is ready for me, when nation will battle nation, when race will devour race, when brother... will kill brother, until not a soul is left. Are you ready, Tiago Vega?

You take what you want. You make your way up. You use your brains. You use your nerve. No one's going to give us anything, Rico, so we make them. First, we make them look. Then, we make them scared. We are Pachuco. We are Chicano. We are Aztec. We are Spade. We are Wop. We are Dago. We are Chink. We are Queer. We are everything they fear. And we go out dancing.