Joaquin Phoenix seems to be getting tired of answering the same Joker questions over and over again as he berated a journalist for asking an old question.
Last night, Joaquin Phoenix won a Golden Globe for Best Actor In Drama his performance in Joker making the first time an actor has received such an award for a comic book movie. Afterward, he answered a number of questions from journalists. One such journalist apparently asked him how Joaquin Phoenix got into the mindset of the character, prompting the eccentric actor to raise an eyebrow at the man and ask if this wasn’t old news. He then went on to answer the question but still seemed a bit confused as to why people were still asking him the same questions.
You can see Joaquin Phoenix’s reaction to the Joker question below:
Joaquin Phoenix bristles at journalist's question about how he prepared for #Joker: "I feel like I've talked about this for six months" https://t.co/vU3bAFReak #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/LX28ThiDUO
— Variety (@Variety) January 6, 2020
What do you all think of the journalist’s question? Was Joaquin Phoenix in the wrong to poke fun at him for his Joker question? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker:
Director Todd Phillips’ Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham. The DC Films movie is not part of the DC Extended Universe, and seems to play into Warner Bros.’s interests of making creator-driven superhero movies over necessarily building a hyper-connected shared universe… At least for the time being.
Joker is still playing in theaters and is currently available to watch on digital formats. The movie will see a release on Blu-Ray and DVD on January 7, 2020.
Source: Variety
