He’s going from “Supernatural” to the world of Batman.
Misha Collins, best known for starring because the angel Castiel on “Supernatural,” plays Harvey Dent on the brand new CW show, “Gotham Knights.”
“The dynamic on set was very different,” Collins, 48, told The Post.
“On ‘Supernatural,’ I joined within the fourth season. I used to be the brand new kid on a show where everybody was children on a playground. Coming into [“Gotham Knights”], it’s a young forged – most of whom don’t have experience on series television – and everybody was working hard to be prepared. So, in a funny way, I used to be working with a much younger and greener forged who were more skilled than the ‘Supernatural’ forged was. It was fun to see the evolution over the course of the season, where everybody began to loosen up and be more playful.”
Premiering Tuesday, March 14 (9 p.m.), “Gotham Knights” is about in Gotham, after Bruce Wayne has been killed. It follows his adopted son, Turner Hayes (Oscar Morgan), who forms an unlikely alliance with the youngsters of Batman’s enemies, as they’re accused of the crime and must scramble to seek out out who the actual perpetrator is. All of the while, district attorney Harvey Dent (Collins), who’s a friend of the Wayne family, leads the hunt for the killer.
“It was also different for me, because I used to be coming in because the old dude who had a variety of experience under his belt,” said Collins. “Occasionally, I might find my younger forged mates seeking to me like, ‘Is that this the way it’s done?’ And I still consider myself as a toddler. So, it was interesting to be in that position of being the grown-up on set – not one which I’m terribly well suited to!”
Dent can be the Batman villain “Two-Face,” although his visage remains to be intact at first of “Gotham Knights.”
“We’re starting with Harvey Dent because the district attorney, an iconic side character within the Batman universe,” said Collins.
“But we’re slowly evolving the character into the long-lasting villain, Two-Face. Up to now onscreen, the character goes from being the upstanding champion of justice and protector of town to being a villain, due to one terrible incident where he’s disfigured. What we’re doing with the character is showing all the cracks in Harvey’s psyche – his history of mental illness, the abuse of his childhood, after which finally attending to this catastrophic event that’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It feels grounded and real.”
Collins has seen the past portrayal of Harvey Dent onscreen, and he said he prefers Aaron Eckhart’s version from “The Dark Knight” to Tommy Lee Jones within the 1995 movie “Batman Without end.”
“I really like Tommy Lee Jones as an actor, I’m going back and watch his performance in ‘The Fugitive’ often. And at the identical time, I believed his Two Face was clownish buffoonery that made no sense. Someday, I’ll meet this acting legend and he’ll spit on my face for having said that.”
But, though he wasn’t a fan of that version of the character, Collins did share something in common with him.
“Once we were doing the mask for Two-Face, I actually have a contact lens in my eye, since the eye itself is broken and appears tousled. And the girl who’s an optometrist who did all of the measurements for the lens was like, ‘You understand, funny coincidence – I also did Tommy Lee Jones’ eye for his Two-Face, years ago!’”
Meanwhile, there’s a minimum of one “Supernatural” spinoff currently airing, prequel series “The Winchesters.” Collins said that he might return to that world.
“We had conversations in the primary season, nevertheless it didn’t work out with the timing. But, if there are subsequent seasons of ‘The Winchesters,’ I’m actually open to creating an appearance.”
