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 Aaron Eckhart
Interview By: Michael Dance For how long has Aaron Eckhart been on the cusp of stardom? It was about to happen when he came out of nowhere to star in the vicious comedy In the Company of Men back in 1997. Then again when he played Julia Roberts's love interest in Erin Brockovich. Then finally when he starred in the one-two-three punch of The Core, Paycheck, and Suspect Zero -- except that all three of those movies flopped. Eckhart went back to his indie roots in Thank You for Smoking, a satire on spin and the nicotine industry that landed him some terrific reviews that all agreed the same thing: this time, finally, Eckhart would be a star. True to form, his next movie, The Black Dahlia, flopped. Luckily, from the strength of Smoking, director Christopher Nolan cast him in the pivotal role of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight -- a little movie you may know is the sequel to another little movie, 2005's Batman Begins. So the question remains: will it happen this time? "I love Harvey Dent," Eckhart says about his character, who Batman fans know is destined to become the villainous Two-Face before the end of the film. "When I read the script I was amazed at the transformation that Harvey has. And given that the Joker is the engine that propels the movie and transforms the action, I was surprised how much Harvey had to do. And what a light he is in the movie. It's interesting to get to know Harvey as an altruistic leader of Gotham City, trying to clean up the city and confront the issues that no one wants to confront -- and then to see his transformation into Two-Face. I think the audience is going to have a little more empathy and understanding of Two-Face since they got to know him as Harvey Dent." The character is one of the Batman mythos's classics, right up there with Jim Gordon (played once again by Gary Oldman) or Batman's butler Alfred (played once again by Michael Caine. "I was familiar with Dent inasmuch as he was an iconic Batman character," Eckhart says. I didn't know his ins and outs, and when I got the part -- thank goodness, thank you Chris -- Chris sent me the comic books, and I started to do research. Eckhart soon realized that the character had a farther reach than he realized. "You know it's funny, when people knew I was going to be Harvey/Two-Face, they came out of the woodwork, and the most unlikely people were throwing me facts about him. It was like baseball statistics, like, how do you know this stuff? I used [some of it], but we had such a beautiful, complex structure in the script, we didn't have to do much besides say our lines and have the emotional intensity. I'm not an aficionado of Harvey/Two-Face, and I'm sure once ... |
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