Sebastian Stan says he's playing Harvey Dent in The Batman Part II

One extreme case has materialized regarding the role assigned to Sebastian Stan, with photos of the actor’s shaved head shattering the belief that he’d play Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent, who eventually becomes the arch-nemesis Two-Face. Fans took one look at Stan’s freshly shorn stubble and spiraled into a posting frenzy, speculating what this fuzzy revelation could possibly mean for the future of Warner Bros.’ billion-dollar Bat-franchise. Could he not be Harvey Dent, after all, but, perhaps, a bald Bat-character? If so, who could it be? Rampant speculation began circulating on social media that Stan could, in fact, be playing Mr. Zsasz, who was notably portrayed with a shaved dome in Christopher Nolan’s seminal Batman Begins as well as in Fox’s peculiar Bat-origin series Gotham, where Anthony Corrigan’s marvelously chromed noggin became the face of the crazed Gotham City slasher.

Of course, the only cure for ASOIAF Madness is the daylight that truth brings to such speculation. Stan himself inadvertently provided it in an interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, which interviewed him and his co-star Renate Reinsve about Cristian Mungiu’s upcoming drama Fjord—a film for which Stan shaved his luscious Bucky Barnes locks. The subject of The Batman Part II came up briefly during an in-depth, revealing conversation about craft and the nature of acting, when comparisons between working on independent features and superhero blockbusters were broached. Inevitably, Le Journal asked about working on this winter’s Avengers: Doomsday, a film whose swift and sweaty rollout has mercifully kept any serious public bursts of ASOIAF Madness to a tolerable minimum.

“Honestly, [it’s] a different way of working, continuous, constantly evolving,” Stan said to the paper, artfully dodging any inquiries about that film’s plot before abruptly rendering all the rumors saying he was playing a knife-wielding psycho in his next superhero picture instead of a complex and revered character that could challenge Stan’s ever-evolving acting ability. “I also can’t say anything about The Batman: Part II, by Matt Reeves, where I play Harvey Dent.” 

If you show signs of ASOIAF Madness, or are otherwise using AI to make crappy images of Batman co-star Scarlett Johansson as Poison Ivy, look out your nearest window and/or take a series of deep breaths before, say, thinking about making a nice lunch.