Sebastian Stan has seemingly confirmed his role as Harvey Dent, AKA Two-Face, in Matt Reeves’ long-awaited The Batman: Part 2.
While the Avengers star has previously been linked with the role, both Stan and Reeves have notably refrained from confirming his character definitively. Indeed, back in May, Stan simply said he would play “many roles in this one” — an ambiguous comment that fans took as a reference to Dent’s dual personality.
Now, however, in an interview with French outlet Le Journal du Dimanche, Stan has seemingly stated his role as a matter of fact: “[I] can’t say anything about The Batman: Part 2,” it’s reported he said, “where I play Harvey Dent.” Dent is, of course, Gotham’s heroic district attorney who becomes an adversary to Batman, previously played by Aaron Eckhart in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy.
Stan, meanwhile, was responding to a wider question about his superhero roles — which he’s allowed to say very little about due to the huge secrecy maintained by DC and Marvel around their respective movie productions.
Of course, we know that Stan will next reprise his iconic character of Bucky Barnes in Avengers: Doomsday, though he claimed he had “absolutely no idea” about the movie in general as Marvel withheld many details even from the actors involved in making it.
“Frankly, I have absolutely no idea,” Stan said. “Because we didn’t have a script. We were just shooting scattered scenes. It’s a different way of working, continuous, constantly evolving.
“The producers didn’t want us to read it in its entirety, to avoid journalists asking us questions,” he laughed.
The Batman: Part 2 is now filming in the U.K., with recent social media posts revealing the filming of a sequence involving Robert Pattinson’s stunt double and some GCPD squad cars in The Birkenhead Tunnel in Liverpool. Set photos have also revealed the film’s new logo. Just this week, the Batmobile turned up in the Scottish city of Glasgow, which will once again double for Gotham City. (Amusingly, the location has also just doubled for New York in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.)
After a recent delay, The Batman: Part 2 now opens in theaters on February 18, 2028. Avengers: Doomsday, meanwhile, lands on December 18, 2026. Should Bucky survive that, he’ll likely also be in Avengers: Secret Wars in December 2027.
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