Could Joaquin Phoenix win an Oscar for playing the Joker? Yes, it's happened before and it might just happen again.
, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the villainous clown, was released Wednesday and it's already generating Oscar buzz for Phoenix. The Todd Phillips directed film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week alongside a slew of other films with big Oscar buzz like Noah Baumbach'sThe trailer follows Arthur Fleck through a series of setbacks like the loss of his job and public humiliation on a late-night TV show for his stand-up comedy performance.
To get into character, Phoenix studied people with a condition called Pathological Laughter or Crying , a disease which causes uncontrollable laughter or crying, often from out of nowhere. JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s tragedy “JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. The film will be released on October 4."It feels unique, it is its own world in some ways, and maybe, mostly, it scares the f***ing shit out of me or something. It might as well be the thing that scares you the most," Phoenix said. He went on to say the film isn't like any other genre.
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