Joker 2’s Shock Actor Defends Its Divisive, Surprising Ending

It’s solely been a complete week since Joker: Folie à Deux hit theaters, however the reactions and takes couldn’t be extra divisive. Of us who noticed it (or simply learn the synopsis on-line) have lots of ideas on numerous elements of the film, primarily its ending. Director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have already talked about it (and the way they came up with it), so now it’s time for the movie’s secret key participant to share their ideas on the matter.

After being totally rejected by Lee (Woman Gaga) and positioned again in Arkham Asylum, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) will get approached by a fellow inmate performed by Connor Storrie, who’s been watching him in secret all through the movie. The inmate tells Arthur a joke, after which stabs him to demise earlier than carving that traditional Glasgow smile onto his personal face. Identical to that, he’s taken the Joker mantle for himself.

Talking to TMZ, Storrie mentioned that he’s probably not shocked the top’s bought followers feeling some sort of means. Like many, he was admittedly thrown by the information that this may be a musical, contemplating how “uncooked and dirty” the primary Joker was. However so far as he’s involved, the polarizing opinions had been inevitable, and may be justified in some respects. “I’d moderately issues be polarizing than issues be boring or squeaky clear,” he mentioned. “You don’t make such a giant swing like that with out realizing it provides folks the chance to not get behind your selections.”

Whereas Storrie commends Phillips for “having the balls to make such a daring swing,” he mentioned he by no means thought of Folie à Deux as a secret origin story. (It appears he didn’t even know what else would occur within the film past him killing Arthur.) He is aware of how huge a deal Joker is, clearly, however he pressured to not “contemplating what that [ending] may imply or the place it may go. It felt very clear that that is Joaquin’s film, [and] that is my place in that. […] It is part of Arthur’s story greater than it’s changing into anything after that.”

Joker: Folie à Deux is now enjoying in theaters.

[via Variety]

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