Much like his arch-nemesis Batman, one of the reasons why the Joker will always endure as one of popular culture’s most iconic figures is that the character is constantly being updated and reinvented, and there’s virtually no limit in the ways the Clown Prince of Crime can be interpreted.
While Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto, Cameron Monaghan and Joaquin Phoenix have all donned the makeup at various points over the decades, each actor played the role in such vastly different ways that you can’t really compare any incarnation of the Joker to the last, even though everybody has their favorite.
Thanks to Todd Phillips’ billion dollar hit, not only has Leto’s divisive performance in Suicide Squad seemingly been consigned to the history books, but Phoenix followed in Ledger’s footsteps by winning an Academy Award for his troubles and providing a daunting task...
While Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto, Cameron Monaghan and Joaquin Phoenix have all donned the makeup at various points over the decades, each actor played the role in such vastly different ways that you can’t really compare any incarnation of the Joker to the last, even though everybody has their favorite.
Thanks to Todd Phillips’ billion dollar hit, not only has Leto’s divisive performance in Suicide Squad seemingly been consigned to the history books, but Phoenix followed in Ledger’s footsteps by winning an Academy Award for his troubles and providing a daunting task...
- 6/22/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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