Saturday
05Jul2008
Aaron Eckhart Wants to Play Superhero, Too
Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 10:54AM 
Could
Aaron Eckhart go from supervillain to
superhero? The affable actor who plays Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the upcoming
The Dark Knight says he wouldn't mind saving
the day one day.
“Is it for me?” Eckhart told
If Magazine. “Are you nuts.
I want my piece.”
He says that he hasn't had any discussions to play any superheroes currently in
pre-production, meaning despite the cleft chin and the blond locks, Eckhart has
not been approached to play Captain America. There's also the issue of his age -
at least to Eckhart - since he just turned 40.
“I don’t know, I’m getting older – I don’t know if there
are any old superheroes,” he said. Uh...Robert Downey Jr.?
“That’s true, bastard,” laughed Eckhart.
Eckhart, like everyone else in the cast, loved
working on The Dark Knight, which may be the reason he's anxious to play
both sides of the superhero fence.
“I had fun doing this movie. I like action in general. I like to run around and be on cool motorcycles. I always get a tinge of jealousy when I see it and I’m not in it. I don’t know what’s left. It would have to be a good script and a good director. I think Chris [Nolan] is a special guy, a special director. I think when all is said and done, he’ll be one of the greats. To work on so many levels on action, comic and dramatically and thematically and I don’t know if anyone could have done what he did.”Eckhart claims he loved Superman and Batman as a kid, and both of those roles have been taken. So, as Eckhart wondered, who's left? He may have answered that question himself: “I’ve forgotten his characteristics and what he does, but I remember liking the Green Lantern a lot." Now you're talkin'.
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