"I live in hope, and that guy was not hopeful" Eric Roberts, who played Gotham crime boss Maroni in The Dark Knight, says he wasn’t a fan of the plot to last year’s Joker, calling it “nasty”.
Roberts, who acted alongside Heath Ledger as the Clown Prince of Crime in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 blockbuster, told NME how he thought the recent origin story suffered from a script that was lacking in hope.
Discussing Joker, released to widespread acclaim in 2019, Roberts had no problem with Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of Arthur Fleck, describing the turn as “one of the most fun performances I have ever witnessed”, adding that he “loved it visually”.
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