'Dark Knight': Q&A with Aaron Eckhart
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Aaron Eckhart joins the Dark Knight cast as Gotham’s crime-fighting district attorney Harvey Dent. Hollywood.com caught up with the star to find out more.
HW: What did you think the first time you read the script?
AE: I knew that the Joker was in the movie. And I knew Heath [Ledger] was playing the Joker. And so I thought, okay it’s the Joker’s movie. And I started reading the script, and I was like, ‘Wow, Harvey Dent! Great, wow.’ You know, he does this and he kept on going and Harvey was such a great character. He did all these things. He was involved with Rachel Dawes, and with Bruce Wayne, and with Batman. And I was like inside my house [clapping] going, ‘Yeah, this is great!’
HW: What did you think about Batman and Harvey in relationship to the city?
AE: I liked how Harvey felt about Batman, because we’re both crime-fighters. But we both do it in different ways. One is inside the law, one’s outside the law. One has tools and the other one doesn’t…There’s a lot of those issues that are going on today in our world. Decisions that have to be made and people are who standing up and are unpopular for those decisions…It’s a heavy movie in a lot of ways.