Update: The first look at Two-Face! Aaron Eckhart is not just another pretty face
There were plenty of name actors lined up hoping to get the role of Two-Face, but in the end Nolan went with Eckhart because of his “complexity and this aura he has of a good man pushed too far,” Nolan said. Two-Face in the film is more of a vigilante hunting down the Joker than he is a criminal, as he has most often been portrayed in the comics. His trademark is flipping a two-headed coin, one side defaced, the other pristine, and letting its landing determine his actions, often in situations where he has a gun to someone’s head.
“The difference between Batman and Two-Face is how far they are willing to go and how they make their point,” Eckhart said. “Otherwise, we’re talking about vigilante crime-fighting. That’s what Batman is all about. He has a strong sense of justice. And Harvey Dent has an extremely strong sense of justice. His fiancée is killed. He’s horribly injured. But he is still true to himself. He’s a crime fighter, he’s not killing good people. He’s not a bad guy, not purely.”
The 40-year-old, square-jawed Eckhart has a history of playing authority figures pulled away from the bright path. He was a cop on a path to destruction in “The Black Dahlia,” the slick tobacco lobbyist in “Thank You for Smoking,” the junior executive looking to punish women in Neil LaBute’s “In the Company of Men,” all of them roles in which bad deeds are simple to see but bad men are hard to recognize.
“You look at a good guy too long and it’s not that exciting, it’s the Boy Scout always doing the right thing,” Eckhart said. “I’m interested in good guys gone wrong. They’re not the bad guy, they’re the good guy doing bad things.”
– From LAtimes
Update: Here’s the first look at Aaron’s Two-Face from the new Dark Knight Trailer:
