Todd Phillips pursued Joaquin Phoenix for months to star in Joker
What's more, it was a bit of a long road to get his man.' Dave Itzkoff. “It’s not necessarily in his five-year plan — although I don’t think he has one.”
It would take numerous visits with the three-time Oscar-nominee over about three months to get Phoenix on board with the R-rated take on the Warner Bros. property. Phillips recalled, “I kept waiting for him to just say, ‘OK, I’m in,’ And he never did that.” Where Phoenix is concerned, he said, “You just never get a yes. All you get is more questions.”
“It’s a horrible way to live,” Phoenix said of considerable weight loss for a role, which he had done numerous times.
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