AARON ECKHART has revealed he didn't watch Tommy Lee Jones and Billy Dee Williams playing Gotham district attorney Harvey 'Two Face' Dent before taking on the role himself in The Dark Knight. The actor steps into Dent's shoes in Christopher Nolan's Batman blockbuster, but wanted to create his own version of the coin-flipping character. "I never even thought about it because the movies have different directors and are from different times," he said. Eckhart, 40, added: "Chris Nolan is so different from Joel Schumacher who directed Batman Forever (featuring the Tommy Lee Jones version of his character), and the characters are so different. I got to create Harvey Dent and then do Two Face. I just did it my way." Although Two Face never appeared in the 60s Batman TV series, Two Face has been a prominent foe in the Batman comics and movies. He was played by Billy Dee Williams in the 1989 film Batman (although only in his Harvey Dent persona), Richard Moll (providing the voice) in Batman: The Animated Series, and then by Tommy Lee Jones in the 1995 film Batman Forever. Williams took the role in Tim Burton's Batman film on the assumption the character would develop in a future movie. He agreed a 'pay or play' contract, meaning they'd have to pay him even if he didn't reprise the part. Williams was reluctant to return to the Batman franchise when Two Face was written as a secondary villain to Jim Carrey's Riddler in the third movie and direct ...
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AARON ECKHART has revealed he didn't watch Tommy Lee Jones and Billy Dee Williams playing Gotham district attorney Harvey 'Two Face' Dent before taking on the role himself in The Dark Knight. The actor steps into Dent's shoes in Christopher Nolan's Batman blockbuster, but wanted to create his own version of the coin-flipping character. "I never even thought about it because the movies have different directors and are from different times," he said. Eckhart, 40, added: "Chris Nolan is so different from Joel Schumacher who directed Batman Forever (featuring the Tommy Lee Jones version of his character), and the characters are so different. I got to create Harvey Dent and then do Two Face. I just did it my way." Although Two Face never appeared in the 60s Batman TV series, Two Face has been a prominent foe in the Batman comics and movies. He was played by Billy Dee Williams in the 1989 film Batman (although only in his Harvey Dent persona), Richard Moll (providing the voice) in Batman: The Animated Series, and then by Tommy Lee Jones in the 1995 film Batman Forever. Williams took the role in Tim Burton's Batman film on the assumption the character would develop in a future movie. He agreed a 'pay or play' contract, meaning they'd have to pay him even if he didn't reprise the part. Williams was reluctant to return to the Batman franchise when Two Face was written as a secondary villain to Jim Carrey's Riddler in the third movie and direct ...