SEEING DOUBLE

Genre legend William Shatner on voicing Bat-baddie Two-Face…

How did you go about developing the distinct voices of Harvey Dent and Two-Face?

Organically, I guess, is a good word. I allowed the bad guy to emerge out of the good guy, much like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. There are these different voices inside our heads all the time. “Should I eat that candy? Should I not eat that candy?”

When I was in the sound booth, they played a scene where the artist had a little green going [on Harvey’s cheek], and then it got bigger… Seeing that, I just fell into doing the voice. As the artist did his thing, I was doing my thing. It was spontaneous.

What was your relationship like with Adam West?

A long, long time ago we did a pilot together, prior to Batman and prior to Star Trek – Alexander The

Great. It didn’t sell, so they made it into a film, and it was fairly well received.

Then each of us went our way. But we would see each other at Comic Cons. We’d be having lunch and sit at a table and talk, and I got to know him over the years and I really admired him. [He was] a lovely, lovely sophisticated man.