Joaquin Phoenix has revealed that Christopher Nolan initially approached him to play the Joker for 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” a role which ultimately went to Heath Ledger.
The actor spoke about the situation during an interview on “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin,” saying that he didn’t feel ready at the time that Nolan was developing the film.
“I remember I talked to Chris Nolan about ‘The Dark Knight’ and that didn’t happen for whatever reason,” Phoenix said, according to Variety. “I wasn’t ready then. That’s one of those things where it’s like, What is in me that’s not doing this? And it’s not about me. There’s something else. There’s another person who is going to do something. … I can’t imagine what it would be if we didn’t have Heath Ledger’s performance in that film, right?”
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