Misha Collins loves Tommy Lee Jones, even if his Two-Face performance was "clownish buffoonery"
Gotham Knights star Misha Collins prefers Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent, though he still loves Tommy Lee Jones' other work
Let the record show that Misha Collins really is one of Tommy Lee Jones’ biggest fans, even if he doesn’t like one particular performance of his. With Collins’ new CW series Gotham Knights, he now follows in the older actor’s footsteps in playing the role of Harvey Dent, a.k.a. the DC villain Two-Face. While some might enjoy the over-the-top nature of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, it simply wasn’t Collins’ cup of tea.
“I really liked the simplicity of Aaron Eckhart’s portrayal in The Dark Knight, and the clownish buffoonery of Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face was way too campy for my taste,” he says in a new interview with The A.V. Club. “Which is funny, because Tommy Lee Jones is actually probably one of my favorite actors, what he did in The Fugitive—this is not hyperbole at all—I probably watched his performance in The Fugitive 15 or 20 times as an actor, just trying to be like, ‘What is he doing there?’ Because I really… I love him as an actor. But I really thought that his portrayal of Two-Face was not to my taste.”