Joaquin Phoenix is a favorite to win an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Joker. To get into the character of Arthur Fleck, Phoenix lost 52 pounds for the role by eating a restrictive diet that was supervised by a doctor.
Joaquin Phoenix ate "an apple a day" to slim down for Joker, where he plays the nearly skin-and-bones Arthur Fleck. According to director Todd Phillips, Phoenix declined the help of a nutritionist and other experts to lose some 52 pounds as Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver envisioned a scrawny Arthur-slash-Joker.
Phoenix said in interviews the severe weight loss may have given him "a disorder," making him obsessive about food and weight, causing him to withdraw from social events and interactions, and leaving him nearly too fatigued to climb stairs.
Since the release of the movie Joker, it seems almost as much attention has been paid to actor Joaquin Phoenix's dramatic weight loss as to his performance as the character Arthur Fleck. Director Todd Phillips considered the character's body size as one way to represent his vulnerability.
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What was Joker's mental illness?
The psychopathology Arthur exhibits is unclear, preventing diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia; the unusual combination of symptoms suggests a complex mix of features of certain personality traits, namely psychopathy and narcissism (he meets DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder).
Rumors swirled that Phoenix ate only an apple a day to prep for the role, but he brushed that one off. “It wasn't an apple a day. No, you've also got lettuce and steamed green beans,” he said.
According to director Todd Phillips though, Phoenix refused to consult a nutritionist for his weight loss regimen, instead choosing to make do with eating only a single apple a day to lose 52 pounds in record time.
Later, Arthur goes to Arkham State Hospital and steals his mother's records, and finds out that he was in fact adopted, and that Thomas Wayne is not his father and that Penny is not his true mother.
In the documentary I Am Heath Ledger (via Digital Spy) it's revealed that, in order to keep the prosthetics in their place as they got loose when he spoke, Ledger had to lick his makeup to keep it in place, and it ended up becoming part of the Joker's manic personality, as well as his most memorable mannerism.
When Jerome seemingly died, his corpse went through a procedure which attempted to revive him. When the procedure seemed to fail, a cult decided to instead remove Jerome's face due to his criminal reputation.
The assumption here would be that the Joker's day starts when he wakes up. But does he even sleep? There's not much in the various portrayals of the character that supports the idea that he needs 40 winks, but assuming that his personality disorder isn't supernatural, we can safely say that he does.
DC Universe. Harleen Quinzel was a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, and after meeting the Joker, she became his frequent accomplice, took on the name Harley Quinn, and got into an abusive codependent relationship with him.
Penny Fleck marks the second time in Batman media where the Joker's mother has appeared, especially given that the Joker's origins are a mystery as well his name in the mainstream comic book continuity.
"It wasn't an apple a day," he said. "No, you've also got lettuce and steamed green beans." Such a vast reduction in his daily calorie intake meant that Phoenix was able to drop 52 pounds, all the while resisting temptation in the form of Joker director Todd Phillips.
Originally Answered: How much did Joaquin weigh in the Joker? He was 180 pounds but he was talking about losing weight 125 that year. I hope that helped you answer your question.
But Phoenix, who has been vegan since the age of three and is a vocal animal advocate, wants this to change. Alongside PETA, the actor notes that turkeys are abused in the meat industry.
Joaquin Phoenix has been vegan for almost his entire life and often uses his fame to advocate for animal rights. During the 2020 film and television awards season, Phoenix helped various ceremonies add vegan food to their menus.
An Apple A Day Helped Joaquin Phoenix Lose More Than 23KG For The Joker. Phoenix's Joker looks unsettlingly emaciated in the film and not surprisingly, the actor had to lose a staggering 23 kilograms for the role. His diet? An apple and not much else.
Arthur Fleck is shown to suffer from a psychiatric disease called 'Pseudo-bulbar affect'. It occurs due to a traumatic injury to the brain or even due to ischemic injury i.e a Stroke. In Arthur's case, it probably was due to a traumatic (mechanical) injury to his brain as he was severely abused during his childhood.
Joe has criteria that correspond to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which is that he is often anxious about himself and the people he loves, so he cannot control his emotions to commit sadistic actions to kill people who he considers to interfere with the relationship between Joe and Beck.
Everyone knows Harley Quinn as the Jokers' girl, but how did she become Harley Quinn? Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life.
Penny had a mental disorder and her case history records at the mental health clinic mention Arthur having a head injury after she abused him, tied him to a radiator and beat him alongside her abusive boyfriend.
