The actor lost 52 pounds for the part, fully inhabiting his own version of the character.
has finally arrived. The three-time Academy Award nominated actor stars in the DC Comics origins story, which has its world premiere in Venice.
Phoenix negated being influenced by past silver screen Jokers. "For me the attraction to make this film was we were going to approach it in our own way. I didn’t refer to any past iterations of [the Joker]. It just felt like our own creations, which was really important to me and the key to it." When Fleck reaches his limits in being beat down, it's the perfect set up to create one of cinema's most terrifying villains. The film also stars Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Shea Whigham, Brett Cullen, Brian Tyree Henry and Glenn Fleshler.
"It was his struggle to find happiness and to feel connected and to feel warmth and love and that’s the part of the character I was interested in," he said. "He was so many different things to me. Who he was in the first few weeks of shooting was completely different than who he was in the end. He was constantly evolving. I’ve never had an experience like this. The more unpredictable and looser we left it, the more exciting it was.
For his part, Phillips described the different modulations on the laugh as the "affliction laugh," trying to be "one of the guys laugh," and the final developed laugh of "authentic joy."
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