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Joaquin Phoenix Says He Talked To Christopher Nolan About Playing The Joker In ‘The Dark Knight’: “I Wasn’t Ready Then”


Joaquin Phoenix had his turn at playing the Joker in the Todd Phillips Joker films, but the actor could have played the DC Comics villain in The Dark Knight.

In a new interview, Phoenix revealed he had talked to director Christopher Nolan about giving life to Gotham’s Clown Prince of Crime. “I remember I talked to Chris Nolan about The Dark Knight and that didn’t happen for whatever reason,” Phoenix said on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin. Phoenix said that he didn’t recall if Nolan “was coming to me saying, ‘You’re definitely the person,'” or the context of their conversation, but he sure knows they met, adding, “My feeling was I shouldn’t do this, but maybe he also was like, ‘He’s not the guy.’”

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