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Why Playing The Joker Was Liberating For Joaquin Phoenix · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywoodcrest Joker is in theaters today, which sees
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Speaker 1: the cameras focused on Batman's arch nemesis rather than the
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Speaker 1: Cape Crusader himself, taking the film in a much darker
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Speaker 1: direction than any movie to ever sworel out of the
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Speaker 1: DC Universe start. Joaquin Phoenix is receiving Oscar buzz for
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Speaker 1: his disturbing but powerful Joker performance, which he calls one
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Speaker 1: of the most liberating of his career, and that's due
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Speaker 1: in part to the manic nature of the Joker. He
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Speaker 1: tells the AP, there seemed to be an infinite number
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Speaker 1: of ways to interpret how he might behave in any moment,
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Speaker 1: and there wasn't anything that didn't make sense. So we
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Speaker 1: would shoot takes where I would cry and others where
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Speaker 1: I would make jokes or be angry, and it would
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Speaker 1: be the same scene and they all made sense. That's
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Speaker 1: so rare. There's something really exciting about that because it
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Speaker 1: keeps you in this state of perpetual investigation and trying
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Speaker 1: to find something new. Joker is out now, that's direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood.