Gyllenhaal on DK

After a year of nothing about Rachel Dawnes in The Dark Knight, from Metro.com.uk, Maggie Gyllenhaal has come out to talk about her role, that was previously played by the wife of scientology nut Tom Cruise.

Is your Batman character a damsel in distress?There are moments of that. Chris
Nolan, the director, would joke about how I had to resign myself to being a
little bit of a damsel in distress but he pushed me in other ways to make her a
powerful character. I play a lawyer and have real relationships with the people
I’m interacting with in the movie. She’s very smart and a real rounded person.
Of course, if you’re the girl in Batman, you’re going to be a damsel in distress
to some extent but she’s a really great character. So many people I play are a
mess; Rachel’s really clear about what’s important to her and unwilling to
compromise her morals, which made a nice change.

I didn’t mind the character being there, but having seen the first one many times, Katie Holmes was so butch.

I speculated that Rachel has a romantic relationship with Harvey Dent in this movie, which leads to disaster.