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‘Joker 2’ Director Says Arthur Fleck Was Never Joker: ‘He’s an Unwitting Icon’ and Joker Is ‘This Idea That Gotham People Put on Him’


'Joker 2' director Todd Phillips says there was never a Joker inside Arthur Fleck.

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about the ending of “ Joker: Folie à Deux ‘ “He realized that everything is so corrupt, it’s never going to change, and the only way to fix it is to burn it all down,” director Todd Phillipstold Entertainment Weekly when asked about having Arthur confess to his sins. Phillips also stressed that this final encounter between Arthur and Lee is real and not imagined, as some fans have started to speculate on social media since the “Joker” sequel’s release.

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