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It’s only been a entire week since Joker: Folie à Deux hit theaters, however the reactions and takes couldn’t be more divisive. Of us who saw it (or factual read the synopsis on-line) non-public heaps of thoughts on heaps of parts of the movie, basically its ending. Director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix non-public already talked about it (and the plan in which they came up with it), so now it’s time for the movie’s secret key player to share their thoughts on the topic.
After being fully rejected by Lee (Lady Gaga) and positioned reduction in Arkham Asylum, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) gets approached by a fellow inmate played by Connor Storrie, who’s been looking at him in secret all the plan in which thru the movie. The inmate tells Arthur a shaggy dog memoir, and then stabs him to loss of life earlier than carving that traditional Glasgow smile onto his grasp face. Dazzling admire that, he’s taken the Joker mantle for himself.
Talking to TMZ, Storrie said that he’s no longer in fact bowled over the finish’s got fans feeling some form of come. Like many, he was admittedly thrown by the news that this would be a musical, brooding about how “raw and dirty” the first Joker was. But as a long way as he’s enthusiastic, the polarizing opinions non-public been inevitable, and might be justified in some respects. “I’d quite issues be polarizing than issues be expressionless or squeaky gorgeous,” he said. “You don’t make such a big swing admire that without lustrous it gives individuals the different to no longer salvage unhurried your decisions.”
Whereas Storrie commends Phillips for “having the balls to make such a plucky swing,” he said he by no technique thought to be Folie à Deux as a secret foundation memoir. (It appears to be like he didn’t even know what else would happen in the movie previous him killing Arthur.) He knows how sizable a deal Joker is, obviously, but he careworn to no longer “brooding about what that [ending] might imply or where it can probably lag. It felt very clear that that is Joaquin’s movie, [and] that is my spot in that. […] It is part of Arthur’s memoir larger than it’s becoming the relaxation after that.”
Joker: Folie à Deux is now playing in theaters.
[via Variety]
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