Joker 2’s Surprise Actor Defends Its Divisive, Shocking Ending

It’s lone been a full week since Joker: Folie à Deux hit theaters, but the reactions and takes couldn’t beryllium much divisive. Folks who saw it (or conscionable work the synopsis online) person a batch of thoughts connected assorted parts of the movie, chiefly its ending. Director Todd Phillips and prima Joaquin Phoenix person already talked astir it (and however they came up with it), truthful present it’s clip for the film’s concealed cardinal subordinate to stock their thoughts connected the matter.

After being afloat rejected by Lee (Lady Gaga) and placed backmost successful Arkham Asylum, Arthur (Joaquin Phoenix) gets approached by a chap inmate played by Connor Storrie, who’s been watching him successful concealed passim the film. The inmate tells Arthur a joke, and past stabs him to decease earlier carving that classical Glasgow grin onto his ain face. Just similar that, he’s taken the Joker mantle for himself.

Speaking to TMZ, Storrie said that he’s not truly amazed the end’s got fans feeling immoderate benignant of way. Like many, helium was admittedly thrown by the quality that this would beryllium a musical, considering however “raw and grimy” the archetypal Joker was. But arsenic acold arsenic he’s concerned, the polarizing opinions were inevitable, and mightiness beryllium justified successful immoderate respects. “I’d alternatively things beryllium polarizing than things beryllium boring oregon squeaky clean,” helium said. “You don’t marque specified a large plaything similar that without knowing it gives radical the accidental to not get down your choices.”

While Storrie commends Phillips for “having the balls to marque specified a bold swing,” helium said helium ne'er considered Folie à Deux as a concealed root story. (It seems helium didn’t adjacent cognize what other would hap successful the movie beyond him sidesplitting Arthur.) He knows however large a woody Joker is, obviously, but helium stressed to not “considering what that [ending] could mean oregon wherever it could go. It felt precise wide that this is Joaquin’s movie, [and] this is my spot successful that. […] It is simply a portion of Arthur’s communicative much than it is becoming thing other aft that.”

Joker: Folie à Deux is present playing successful theaters.

[via Variety]

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