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Aaron Eckhart Gives Another Reason to See Dark Knight

He's a rare commodity: an actor with sense

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  July 29th, 2008 at 07:34 AM  | 

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Carter Wood points to a BBC interview with Dark Knight co-star Aaron Eckhart:

Lang: The movie’s already done incredibly well. I think it’s broken records in its opening weekend in the United States. I mean, do you think that because America’s in an election year, the economy going down the tubes, a lot of uncertainty in the world, do you think it touched a nerve?

Eckhart: (Laughs) You’re very anti-American here.

Lang: Yes?

Eckhart: We’re having our problems…First of all, I will never disparage America on foreign soil. I am a proud American.

You can listen to the full interview here. The quoted exchange comes relatively early on.

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  • Erick

    I think I’ve read before that he is of the left, but that is refreshing to hear.

  • bk

    “First of all, I will never disparage America on foreign soil. I am a proud American.”

    In any case, he gives a nice answer.

  • aaronbg

    ….and if you haven’t seen the Dark Knight yet…why are you still sitting there go see it….it was better than the first one I swear.

  • Pentagon16

    Don’t forget that Gary Oldman is a bigtime conservative Tory in the UK as well.

    Eckhart was in this month’s edition of Men’s Health, he is a down to earth guy who lives on his own horse ranch and does his own range work… he is a super cool dude and at least he is sticking up for the US when he really didn’t have to..