By Chris Snellgrove | Published
A long time ago Foley A. Dukes Making history as one of the worst superhero movies in Hollywood history, Joaquin Phoenix impressed us all the first time around. Joker The film grossed more than a billion dollars at the box office and helped its star win an Academy Award for Best Actor, surprising many that Warner Bros. cast the iconic actor in his first Joker makeup. Why not keep it? As it turns out, they almost did: Joaquin Phoenix casually mentioned that he had talked with superstar director Christopher Nolan about possibly playing the Joker. The Dark Knight But was not yet ready to play the famous villain.
Joaquin Phoenix could play Joker in The Dark Knight.
This shocking revelation came during the star’s recent appearance Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin. During the interview, Joaquin Phoenix said frankly that he doesn’t quite remember why he didn’t get the role of Joker… He said, “I remember talking to Chris Nolan about it. The Dark Knight And it just didn’t happen for whatever reason.” While he elaborated a bit more on his involvement with Nolan, Phoenix summed things up with a simple statement: “I wasn’t ready then.”
During the interview, Joaquin Phoenix was equally forthright in his assessment of why he wasn’t ready to play the Joker in the 2008 hit film: “It’s one of those things where it’s like, ‘I What’s not doing it?” he asked. In a slightly cryptic tone, he noted that “it’s not about me” and concluded that “there’s something else” that was keeping him from embracing the iconic villain years ago.
Kudos to Heath Ledger
Finally, Joaquin Phoenix answered his question by addressing the elephant in the room: namely that Heath Ledger finally portrayed the Joker. The Dark Knight And that gave what would be (quite literally, sadly) the performance of a lifetime. It may just be the benefit of hindsight, but Phoenix thinks that’s why he hesitates to portray the villain, saying, “There’s another person who’s going to do something.” He then said what you’ve probably been thinking this entire time: “I can’t imagine what this movie would have been without Heath Ledger’s performance.”
Lest anyone think he was suggesting that he should have gotten the role instead of Ledger (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor posthumously), Phoenix clarified that his memory was rather vague. She said she wasn’t sure if Nolan wanted to cast her in the role. “I don’t know if Christopher Nolan came up to me and said, ‘You’re definitely the person,'” she admitted, noting her belief that they at least met to talk about the film and the character. were, Phoenix pointed out that the director may have had his own reservations: “I had a feeling I shouldn’t be doing it, but maybe he was like, ‘He’s not. Boy.”
right time
Because Joaquin is clearly talented like Phoenix (he too won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker), we can’t help but be glad he didn’t play Batman. The Dark Knight. Ledger’s Clown Prince was a success because he was everything that Phoenix’s Joker was not: bold, theatrical, and unapologetically confrontational. Assuming Phoenix had gotten the role and the script hadn’t been changed, we would have gotten the worst of both worlds… a performance that pales in comparison to Ledger’s work. The Dark Knight And Phoenix’s later work Joker.
Plus, given the colossal failure of Joker 2 In light of the Oscar-winning, multibillion-dollar success of the first film, it might be time for us all to admit something uncomfortable: that first Joker The film was a lucky fluke, whose success shows how young audiences were ready for the film. Taxi driver A remake with the star in clown makeup. Joaquin Phoenix is immensely talented and his first Joker performance is iconic, but the failure of the sequel proves that talent counts for little when the script is this bad. The title was apt, for it was a folly a deux… a folly shared by both Phoenix and Phillips.
Source: Variety
