‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ actor says people on set predicted it was going to bomb

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Joker: Folie à Deux, has revealed actors on set had already been predicting that the film would flop.Following its release to largely negative reviews, it became the first Hollywood comic book movie adaptation to have earned a ‘D’ score, and drew an estimated domestic box office opening of $40million (£30.5million) on its opening weekend.That was roughly half of the equivalent take of its predecessor – well short of its original projections of $70million, which Warner Bros.

were reportedly “stunned and sorely disappointed” by.During an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Dillon, who played an an Arkham Asylum security guard, said many actors on set predicted as much, saying it was “the worst film ever made.”“I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels.

This was loved by the wrong kinds of people,” he said. “This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces.

And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane.”Director Todd Phillips‘s decision to embrace musical theatre elements was hailed by Gaga as “a very big swing”, while she also praised the film’s “audacity and complexity”.“It has no plot,” Dillon continued.