He recalled his first costume fitting for the Robin suit, another of costume designer Laura Jean Shannon‘s contributions to the series. This included the scenes when one or both of them were in superhero suits.Īlthough supersuits are not the easiest costumes to wear, Lycugro said, “everyone wants to dress as a superhero.”
“If you want to picture what it‘s like with me and Ryan on set, it is really us in an intense scene and then all of a sudden we just start dancing,” he said. Since that first night of bonding, Lycrugo said it was a “two-step” with Potter that fed into the way the characters also interacted).
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Lycrugo recalled that actor Potter, who was the first of the seasoned series regulars to work with him, invited him to come to set to meet the cast. This is shown in the way they all look out for him, be it Dick‘s methods in training him or the casual affection Tim and Gar share throughout season 4. Of course, the showrunner noted, he is also loved by the Titans. And because of that, there‘s a little more joy and fun in it. “Robin was medicine for Dick or a life vest, and certainly for Jason Todd, given his background,” he continued. Tim not only grew up with his birth parents, but they are very much alive when he sets out to become a Titan at the end of season 3.
Walker said that the traits Lycurgo keyed in on also signify how the Robin persona has evolved from one that was “born of dysfunction” and “loss.” Dick‘s family died in front of him Jason’s abandoned him to an addict uncle and he later ended up in foster care and working as a petty criminal. They were even pitching a Red Hood spin-off with a mostly-reformed Jason Todd ( Curran Walters), Dick‘s successor as Robin who went off the deep-end in Titans‘ third season.īrenton Thwaites and Jay Lycurgo in Titans. Other ideas Walker shared with Rotten Tomatoes included Gar spending a long time exploring The Red, but not, Walker said, to “the exclusion of his Titans family.” And he said that Tim would have carried on as the show‘s Robin both because of the emerging universe spinning out from 2022 feature film The Batman and a desire to doubled down on what New Teen Titans comic book creators Marv Wolfman and George had already established. There was even talk of doing a season centered on Dick and Kory. These stories included reincarnating Jinx ( Lisa Ambalavanar), an ally in season 4 who died during a battle with May and introducing Terra, a character from the comics. The decision to cancel the series came just after the writers and Walker were spitballing ideas for what they’d expected to be a fifth season. “We wrote ourselves into a corner intentionally,” Walker explained.” How do you bring back the various Titans from where they are in their lives? What kind of momentous event would do that? We’d just started talking about that when our fate was revealed.” This proves that, even though they may need some time apart, the Titans will always be stronger together. The group also got one last adventure when they defeated Blood Brother. Dick and fire-powered Tamaranian Princess Kory Anders ( Mame-Anna Diop) finally acknowledged their mutual attraction and returned together to San Francisco. And the show‘s latest Robin, Tim Drake ( Jay Lycurgo), chose to split his time between Metropolis, where his boyfriend Bernard ( James Scully) lives, and Gotham City, where he will continue to train as Robin. Superboy Connor Kent ( Joshua Orpin) elected to spend some time with Superman. Shapeshifter Gar ( Ryan Potter) elected to travel The Red, the ephemeral realm of animal consciousness. Empath Rachel ( Teagan Croft) decided to attend college in Bludhaven. In the series finale, most of the team choose new directions.
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You could take any of our main cast - the core four and beyond - and make a very exciting TV series around them,” he said. “The funny thing about Titans is there‘s all these shows embedded into the show. The ending was surprisingly hopeful and - as showrunner Greg Walker told Rotten Tomatoes in an interview conducted before the Writers Guild of America strike began - was a glimpse into some ideas he and his writing team had about a potential subsequent season. Ryan Potter, Anna Diop, Brenton Thwaites, Jay Lycurgo, and Teagan Croft in Titans.
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