Poison Ivy’s rapid aging explained
It has been confirmed that actress Maggie Geha will replace Clare Foley as Gotham’s interpretation of Poison Ivy. The thing is, however, that Foley is still in her early teens whereas Geha is closely approaching her thirties.
According to Stevens, one of Indian Hill’s escaped patients has the power to age someone rapidly simply by touching them. The patient only briefly touches Poison Ivy, causing her to grow around twenty years older.
This decision was made because the writers wanted to play around with Poison Ivy’s lore, but in order to do so, the character had to become a bit older.
“We’re not going to be aging Batman up anytime soon,” Stevens clearly stated, so Bruce Wayne becoming Batman is still a long way off. The only way this gifted patient will affect Bruce is through the non-romantic relationship that will unfold between Bruce and Ivy, with both parties influencing each other greatly as the season progresses.
“I don’t think we’ll see any super powers stuff. I think that would be way further down the line especially since this is an origin story show,” believes Maggie Geha. “So I think it’s going to be more about discovering how other people perceive her and what that means. A lot of people are focused on her sexuality. I think Ivy, in my opinion, doesn’t really feel sexual about anybody. I think if she notices this person is attracted to me, finds me appealing in a sexual way, I’m going to use that to my benefit. It’s more of a manipulative thing than anything.”
