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Todd Phillips ‘Can’t Say Yes or No’ About Joker 3
But he can explain how he “scared” Joaquin Phoenix into doing a sequel in the first place.
Five years ago, Todd Phillips’s Joker snuck into Venice and emerged an unexpected winner of the Golden Lion, the first trophy in an awards-season hot streak that eventually saw Joaquin Phoenix hoist the Best Actor Oscar. As Phillips revealed at the official Venice press conference for Joker: Folie à Deux, that pressure gave the follow-up to the 2019 hit much higher stakes. Folie à Deux has found a novel way to address the heightened stakes for a Joker sequel: make it a musical, and add one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
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