Willem Dafoe wants to play a “Joker imposter” alongside Joaquin Phoenix
nme.comSpider-Man: No Way Home, shared his idea for a new take on a supervillain character.“There is something interesting about, like, if there was a Joker imposter,” Dafoe told British GQ.“So it would be possible to have not duelling Jokers but someone that says to be the Joker that isn’t the Joker.
And that kind of opens up the possibility of an interesting story, particularly if you had Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and then you had someone who was either imitating or riffing off what he did.”He added: “I fantasised about that.
But other than that I am not talking to anybody [about it], you’re the first one.”Elsewhere in the interview, Dafoe joked about playing villains, saying: “I don’t know what that is.
I’ll play dumb. You play characters. I could say, ‘Oh yeah, it’s fun to play villains ’cause you can do things that you can’t do in life, or it’s fun to play with your dark side.’ But I don’t know.
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