Since the Cruella trailer starring Emma Stone has released a few weeks ago, fans have been comparing the film to Joaquin Phoenix‘s Joker.
Now, Emma has finally broken her silence and addressed the comparisons. “It’s very different from Joker in many ways,” Emma, who stars as the title character in the movie, told Total Film. “I would never even remotely compare myself to Joaquin Phoenix.
I wish I was more like him.” Cruella‘s director, Craig Gillespie, also spoke to the comparisons, saying, “There are some really deep, emotional things that Cruella’s dealing with that send her to the villainous darker side.
So in that sense, it is [similar]. But it’s definitely its own thing. Just to sort of reframing Cruella, I thought it was important to.
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