"That scene means so much to me. I've been asked, 'Why does Nadia go there? She can send people to bring her son back,' but she doesn't, because she calls her son 'joon,' 'dear,' and she is ready to sacrifice herself for him. We can't help it."
"On The Penguin, the Maroni family is now Iranian, an ethnicity switch from the DC Comics in which these characters originally appeared. The change was inspired by series creator Lauren LeFranc writing Nadia specifically for Aghdashloo and helps build out this contemporary version of Gotham as a multicultural city with myriad competing crime families jockeying for power."
"For Aghdashloo, Iranian mobsters count as a representation win: 'Why not?' she remembers saying in response to a red-carpet question about their inclusion in the series. And although Aghdashloo's role is contained to only four episodes, her Nadia is an effective foil for Oz, a representation of how brutal he's willing to be."
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