10 Movie Characters Who Were Perfectly Cast (The Third Time)

10. Two-Face - Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight)

The Predecessors

Billy Dee Williams originally played a pre-Two-Face version of Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, and while decent enough in the role, he never made much of a dent (sorry), nor did he actually get the opportunity to play the character's villainous alter-ego.

Williams was supposed to return as Two-Face for Batman Returns but ended up being written out of the script, though the fully-formed character eventually appeared in Joel Schumacher's divisive 1995 Batman Forever, as played by Tommy Lee Jones.

Jones certainly brought the requisite madness to the role, though the material did him little favours, and he found himself constantly forced to compete with Jim Carrey's rubber-faced mugging as The Riddler.

Third Time's The Charm...

Harvey Dent was re-introduced in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, with Aaron Eckhart giving fans by far their best-acted and most dramatically water-tight iteration of the character to date.

Eckhart's chiselled good looks and boundless charisma made him a perfect fit for Gotham's "white knight", and thanks to a script that stripped the character's typical cartoonishness away, he was able to deliver a gritty and (relatively) grounded iteration of Dent's transformation into Two-Face.

Eckhart also did a fantastic job once the switch occurs, aided by some fantastically grotesque make-up effects, cementing the tragic downfall of Gotham's greatest hope for a brighter future.

Though Heath Ledger justifiably got most of the movie's acting plaudits, Eckhart's sublime performance also deserves to be singled out.