Shiny Media favourite Maggie Gyllenhaal is a proper actress, with a brain full of clever opinions and a huge library full of leather-bound books (probably.) One thing she isn’t is a tabloid darling or media favourite, and so it was a welcome switch when it was announced that she would be replacing Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes in the next Batman film. But how does she feel about inheriting the role from Mrs. Tom Cruise? Well, being able to string a sentence together without help from her PA, she’ll tell you. "I'm not walking into Katie Holmes' performance.”
"I'm thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who's alive and smart. Chris (Nolan) asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress." Ooer – did anybody else feel the cold draught there? Credit to Maggie for speaking her mind and saying what many other people in Hollywood are bound to be thinking.