Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix address concerns about 'real-world violence' in Joker
of additional New York City police to theaters showing the DC film. Los Angeles police previously announced its department would do the same.
Phillips continued, explaining that it's the conversations being had by these people that bother him. "There’s been so much conversation around the movie by people who haven’t seen the movie; thinkpieces written by people who say, ‘I haven’t seen the movie. I’m not going to see the movie. I don’t need to see the movie,' " he said. "And then they write two pages about the movie.
Phoenix told the audience that while he typically doesn't consider what's going to happen after a movie's been made, he took some time to decide whether or not to take on the role of the Joker. "I gave all my sisters the script, and my mom. My whole family read it," he said. "And we had a lot of discussions about it."
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