8 Little Known Ways Aaron Eckhart Made Nolan’s Two-Face Awesome

4. No Make-Up Meant He Could Actually Act

When discussing the disfigured side of Two-Face before audiences finally got to see it, Eckhart was clearly excited for the unsuspecting fans, saying "Chris has gone way farther than people think". And boy was he right; so many of the concepts fans had thrown up pre-release look incredibly restrained compared to the hideous scarring present in the finished film. What makes The Dark Knight take on Two-Face stand out from other representations of the character is that disfigurement is very much on the reducing side of things; appearances in Batman Forever and The Animated Series (both of which used the traditional acid origins) have a much more exaggerated look. Only really possible because of the CGI used, it helped make Nolan's Two-Face, like all his villains, visually distinct. This also had the really welcome side effect of allowing Eckhart to act without the impeding effect of heavy make-up, meaning the character's anger and loss could be properly conveyed (something that never came across with Tommy Lee Jones' take).