GOTHAM: Nicholas D’Agosto Talks 'Harvey Dent' And The Chances Of Seeing 'Two-Face'
Gotham continues to shake things up as it explores the titular city before Bruce Wayne dons the cape and cowl as Batman, and in this interview with Nicholas D’Agosto, we learn more about his take on Harvey Dent and whether or not we should expect to see his transformation into Two-Face...
Like a lot of the other future villains we've met so far in the series, Gotham's Two-Face is quite a bit older than Bruce Wayne, and we'll get the chance to learn more about him in next week's episode. Talking to Entertainment Weekly recently, actor Nicholas D'Agosto was asked where exactly Harvey Dent is mentally when we first meet him. "I don’t want to go so far as to say they’re written. I don’t want to stress that too much. The character does get established as a positive character that Jim Gordon [Ben McKenzie] can get behind. But there’s an ambition in his Harvey Dent, there’s almost a craven ambition to him, and that can lead to his more angry episodes. It lends itself to a darker element to him that most people will know. Dent is still a pure and genuine character who switches with the accident." As for how much Gotham will pay homage to the character's comic book roots and if we'll see any forshadowing, D'Agosto added: "Oh yeah. It’s a facet of the television world. It’s important to speak to a larger audience and to speak to have these kind of [touchstones] because people have their minds in so many different shows. Definitely from the first scene you’ll see me flipping a coin. I hope it comes across like in Eckhart’s version where it was used by Harvey as a tool to subtly manipulate people into getting his way."
Of course, one of the biggest questions in regards to Gotham is whether or not we'll see some characters take on their villainous personas BEFORE Bruce Wayne decides to become the Caped Crusader, and when he was asked whether or not we'll see Harvey become Two-Face, the actor teased: "I don’t know. They always keep us actors in the dark. I think it would be at least a couple of seasons. They’ve taken certain license with certain elements of the story, like they’ve played up a large age difference between Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne. So who knows where they’ll go with it? I hope I get to be Two Face somewhere in the middle of the run so I can really explore these two halves." What do you guys think?
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