![]() ![]() “People would be surprised that it was a light set. “He’s not someone who was lost in this pain,” Phillips said. ![]() Phillips said that while Phoenix committed to losing all the weight to get into character, Phoenix wasn’t method acting while on set. Phoenix is introduced to audiences as Arthur Fleck, a social outcast who begins to rebel against the world around him. “Joker” goes wide on October 4 and is a “deep-dive character study” of the famed Batman villain “in the vein of a Sidney Lumet/Martin Scorsese picture,” according to Phillips. When we finally looked at what he lost, it was 52 pounds. “Neither of us put a number on it,” Phillips told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman in an interview last Friday. Joaquin Phoenix lost 52 pounds to play “Joker” in the upcoming film after director Todd Phillips said he wanted his character to look “wolf-like and malnourished and hungry.” ![]()
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