Director Todd Phillips says the stars of anticipated sequel Joker: Folie à Deux don’t know how good they are.
The character of the Joker stands tall in the canon of superhero mythology, even though he is draped in darkness, destructive ill will and chaos. He is the antithesis of everything good and honourable, and yet, when
“So it wasn’t so much that we were worried, or that we sat and pined over the idea of what is Joker without a Batman; it was really just an attempt to do a backstory on this really tragic person, but through a really realistic lens. What you know about Joker is: he has white skin, we’re going to tell you why his skin is white. And it wasn’t he fell into a vat of acid because that doesn’t feel real in this world.
Lady Gaga, director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix in Venice ahead of Joker: Folie à Deux’s premiere at the film festival.“It wasn’t like we came up with the title and then went, ‘Ooh, that’s it’. Scott Silver and I were writing for a year before we stumbled on that term and, quite frankly, we went, ‘God, this is so perfect, how could we not have it?’ And so it became the thing,” Phillips says.
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