The other great “Joker”
The failure of Joker: Folie de duo at the cinema it doesn’t change the fact that Joaquin Phoenix is an exceptional actor, and that he plays a formidable Joker in Todd Phillips’ two films. Furthermore, rather “Arthur Fleck” than “Joker”, since these DC films insist on their difference from other DC productions, both The Batman by Matt Reeves or, until the arrival of James Gunn at the helm of DC Studios, the DCEU films where Batman and the Joker appear. A separate film and a separate Joker, for an actor also separate.
Joaquin Phoenix is so good at embodying Batman’s favorite enemy that he has arguments that annoy the one who delivered, to the current majority of fans of this universe, the better performance in the role: Heath Ledger The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan. And it turns out, as revealed by Joaquin Phoenix himself, he could have played this role in this huge 2008 hit.
“I wasn’t ready.”
In retrospect, it is now obvious that any actor would have wanted to be part of it The Dark Knightconsidered one of the best superhero films of all time and simply one of the best films ever made, critically acclaimed and a global box office phenomenon with many records shattered. But then, as Joaquin Phoenix said to Rick Rubin on the podcast Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubinthere was no favorable outcome to his meeting with Christopher Nolan.
I remember talking to Christopher Nolan about “The Dark Knight,” but it didn’t happen, for one reason or another. I wasn’t ready at that moment. It’s one of those situations where you say, “What is it about me that makes this not work? But it’s not about me. There’s something else. There’s another person who’s going to do something (.. .) And I can’t imagine what it would have been like if we hadn’t had Heath Ledger’s performance in this movie.
My feeling was that I shouldn’t do it, but maybe Christopher thought, “He’s not the guy I’m looking for.”
Therefore, the casting of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker was not over The Dark Knight, and the actor does not remember precisely the context of this casting, that is, whether Christopher Nolan wanted it more than anyone else. In the end, everything went well as Heath Ledger from Christopher Nolan and Joaquin Phoenix from Todd Phillips shone in the exercise, receiving the posthumous award firstOscar for best supporting role in 2009 and the secondOscar for best actor in 2020.
Source: Cine Serie
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