Joaquin Phoenix spoke with Christopher Nolan about playing Joker in The Dark Knight, however says he “wasn’t ready then.”

During a latest interview on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin, Joaquin Phoenix revealed he was approached to play the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. However, Phoenix didn’t assume he was able to play the function on the time. Of course, Health Ledger wound up playing Joker and completely stole the present, even profitable a posthumous Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

“I remember I talked to Chris Nolan about ‘The Dark Knight’ and that didn’t happen for whatever reason,” Phoenix mentioned. “I wasn’t prepared then. That’s a type of issues the place it’s like, ‘What is in me that’s not doing this?’ And it’s not about me. There’s one thing else. There’s one other individual who’s going to do one thing. … I can’t think about what it could be if we didn’t have Heath Ledger’s efficiency in that movie, proper?“

Phoenix continued, “I don’t know whether or not Christopher Nolan was coming to me saying, ‘You’re positively the individual.’ I can’t keep in mind the context of how we met, however I do know we met. My feeling was I shouldn’t do that, however perhaps he additionally was like, ‘He’s not the man.’“

Twenty years later, Phoenix was lastly able to deal with the Joker. The 2019 movie was a phenomenon, grossing over $1 billion worldwide and incomes Phoenix an Oscar for Best Actor. Unfortunately, the latest sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, has bombed, each on the field workplace and with critics and audiences. At the second, the movie has solely grossed $201 million worldwide and will probably lose the studio as much as $200 million. Yikes.

Our personal Chris Bumbray wasn’t a fan of the sequel, feeling that it solely exists as a result of the primary film made a boatload of cash. “Perhaps Joker was too big of a hit not to get a sequel, but watching Joker: Folie à Deux, you get the distinct feeling that this was an exercise in style for Phillips rather than a sequel that HAD to be made,” Bumbray wrote. “As it is, though, this Joker sequel spins its wheels and winds up being an often dull courtroom movie livened up by occasional flights of fancy into musical numbers. Those sequences are the best in the film, as without them, this would feel like a wholly unnecessary epilogue to what was originally a pretty powerful film.” You can try the remainder of Bumbray’s overview proper right here, and be sure you tell us what you consider the movie as properly.

Although it’s onerous to consider anybody aside from Heath Ledger as Joker in The Dark Knight, may you might have seen Joaquin Phoenix in the function again then?