Phoenix won an Oscar for playing the Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker, becoming the second actor to do so, following Ledger’s posthumous honors in 2009.

Joaquin Phoenix donned his best clown makeup to play the iconic DC villain in 2019’s Joker. Yet Phoenix could have played the Clown Prince of Crime in The Dark Knight. In a recent appearance on ...

Joaquin Phoenix has revealed in an interview that he almost played the Joker in The Dark Knight, a revelation that could have changed superhero cinema notably. When The Dark Knight premiered in ...

Phoenix also won an Oscar for playing the Joker in the 2019 film. THR recently reported that 2019’s Joker would have ended with Phoenix’s Joker carving a smile into his face, similar to Ledger ...

Joaquin Phoenix Says He Spoke to Christopher Nolan About Playing Joker in ‘Dark Knight’: “I Wasn’t Ready Then” Heath Ledger famously portrayed the Clown Prince of Crime in a posthumous ...

Joaquin Phoenix has revealed he almost played the Joker ten years before Todd Phillip’s titular film. The Gladiator actor, 50, starred as the Batman villain in the 2019 origin movie Joker and ...

Joaquin Phoenix revealed for the first time during a recent interview on “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin” that he was approached to play the Joker by Christopher Nolan for 2008’s “The Dark ...