Maggie Gyllenhaal Knows She’s Better Than Katie Holmes

Posted on July 23, 2007 at 5:31 am (PST)

Indie darling Maggie Gyllenhaal has made some comments that sound suspiciously like a Katie Holmes slam.

The two actresses bear a striking physical resemblance, which we’d never noticed before. And, though Gyllenhaal will be playing Rachel Dawes in "The Dark Knight," according to MSNBC, she says that marks the end of any similarities between her performance and the one phoned in by Holmes for the last Batman installment.

“I’m not walking into Katie Holmes’ performance,” Gyllenhaal said, reports WENN. “I’m thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who’s alive and smart. Chris (Nolan the director) asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress.”

Alive and smart. You couldn’t come up with a pithier, more accurate way to describe "the opposite of Katie Holmes since she married Tom Cruise."