

"Who he was in the first few weeks of shooting was completely different than who he was in the end," Phoenix said of the character. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Joker Madness on Set I think it was something that was alive, in a way." "Sometimes one take would work and another wouldn't. "There were some scenes where, for whatever reason, it came out and it felt right and other scenes that it was a struggle," he told ETOnline. Although the Joker actor still says that he never felt quite settled with the laugh. Of course, Phoenix ended up with a cackle that’s more Heath Ledger, and less Jared Leto.

I would practice alone and then asked Todd to come over to audition my laugh, because I felt like I had to do it on the spot and in front of somebody else. "But honestly, I didn’t think that I could do it.

"I think Joker is a part of that’s trying to emerge, and I think that was a really interesting way of looking at this laugh," said Phoenix.
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And a synopsis of the movie reported by The Hollywood Reporter revealed that in the film, Fleck himself suffers from the disorder. In one interview, Phoenix described watching videos of people who suffer from pathological laughter, a disorder marked by bursts of uncontrollable and inappropriate laughing. Of course, maybe above everything else, the one thing you have to nail about the Joker is his blood-curdling laugh. Still, as Phoenix told The New York Times: "It's a horrible way to live." Then, as he reached his target weight, Phoenix said he started to feel “energized and excited,” using his hunger and new range of body movement to inform the role. You have to talk yourself into it and say, 'I can do this, I know I can do this.'" "You look at a flight of stairs and it takes like 30 seconds. "In the beginning, you're exhausted," Phoenix said. You start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that amount of time."Ībout a month later, Phoenix did one of his favorite things-making the late-night show rounds-and spoke on Jimmy Kimmel Live about what it was like to lose so much weight in that short of a time. And, as it turns out, that then affects your psychology. "I think that’s really what I started with. "The first thing for us was the weight loss," said Phoenix when Joker debuted at the Venice Film Festival. Phoenix lost 52 pounds for the role, a process that he suggested informed his performance.

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