Christopher Nolan casts like a director who expects the second and third chairs to do real work. The internet usually collapses those films into one lead and one villain. ActorRating is for the rest of the frame — the district attorney, the father figure, the scientist, the spouse — the performances that make the set pieces mean something.
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Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight (2008)
Harvey Dent gets half a movie as hope and half as tragedy, and Eckhart never plays either as a costume change. The Two-Face turn only lands because the upright prosecutor was already slightly too sharp, slightly too hungry. In a film famous for Ledger, Eckhart is the moral geometry: what Gotham loses when it breaks its white knight.
