Aaron Eckhart has expressed interest in reprising his role as Two-Face in Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to The Dark Knight.

The actor portrayed Harvey Dent and his disfigured alter-ego in Batman’s last film outing, which saw the character seemingly killed off in the end. Eckhart, however, is now appealing to Nolan to bring the villain back in a soap opera-inspired twist.

“I think I’ve talked myself out of the job. I thought I’d died. But you know, America’s grown up on soap operas and reinventing people so why doesn’t Chris take that into consideration,” he said.

Eckhart added that he would “love” to return as the character, but would understand if Nolan made a clean break from the last film out of respect for the late Heath Ledger, who died from an accidental drug overdose in January 2008.

“If Chris asked me back, I would love to. Heath really was meant to come back as The Joker [for the next movie] as we all would want him to do so. Maybe this will be the way it is and be its own little thing.”

Production on the next Batman film is rumored to begin next year.