Joker won’t be your average comic book movie. The upcoming Todd Phillips film is taking a much different approach to the Batman character – aiming for an R-rating, playing the festival circuit, and already generating awards season buzz. Whether or not the movie will live up to this hype remains to be seen, but you can be confident in star Joaquin Phoenix‘s abilities. Phoenix is one of the best actors working today, and he clearly took this role seriously. Case in point: the actor recently revealed that rather than just adopt a generic maniacal laugh for his Clown Prince of Crime, he actually researched a specific mental condition to emulate.
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