Joaquin Phoenix may be delivering one final punchline. The Joker star revealed in a recent interview that he asked director Todd Phillips during filming💫 to start work on a sequel – and in typical Clown Prince of Crime fashion, it’s not clear whether he was joking or not.

“Long before the release or before we had any idea 🎃if it would be successful, we talked about sequels,” Phoenix told the . “In the second oꦉr third week of shooting, I was like, ‘Todd, can you start working on a sequel? There’s way too much to explore.’”

But before we get too worked up about any Joker sequel talk,♚ it’s worth noting that Phoenix may just be messing with us. He teased: “It was kind of in jest – but not really.”

Phoenix, though, is adamant that Joker’s box office – which is nearing a billion dollars, the highest ✃of any R-Rated movie in history – won’t tempt him back for an encore. “I wouldn’t just do a sequel just because the first movie is successful,” he explained. “That’s ridiculous.”

The conversation around a Joker sequel has now shifted dramatically both pre and post-release. Phillips himself 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:told sister publication Total Film that “if people show up to this movie, and Warners came to us a🐓nd said, ‘You know what? If y🗹ou guys could think of something…’ Well, I have a feeling that he and I could think of something pretty cool.”

He 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:later walked that back and definitively said, “We have no plans for a sequel.&rꦫdquo;

꧟Joaquin Phoenix’s latest quotes, however, may have fans wishing he and Phillips have one final ace up their sleeve when🎶 it comes to a possible Joker sequel.

Find out where Joaquin ended up on our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Joker actors, ranked.