Barry Keoghan didn’t simply take inspiration from Alex DeLarge for his Riddler audition tape however the visuals of Stanley Kubrick.
He was cured all proper…Earlier than he was solid because the Joker in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, actor Barry Keoghan despatched in an audition tape for the function of the Riddler. However he took inspiration from an unlikely place — no, not Jim Carrey however moderately Stanley Kubrick.
Barry Keoghan’s look in his Riddler tape clearly takes some cues from A Clockwork Orange’s Alex DeLarge with the cane, bowler hat and eyeshadow, however he additionally framed it in a approach that may deliberately recall to mind the emblems of Stanley Kubrick. Keoghan lately informed Esquire, “I simply made it up. I needed to make it Kubrick-y: symmetrical, the X on the again, the sq. doorframe, every thing sq.. I simply needed swag to come back throughout. Swag and endearing. It was simply me giving my concept. After which I’s like, I’ma ship this in!” You already know, identical to Kubrick used to say earlier than submitting his last lower.
After all, Barry Keoghan would land a cameo because the Joker as a substitute whereas Paul Dano acquired the Riddler, bringing his personal stage of Zodiac-esque menace to the half. However one can simply see Keoghan carrying the Clown Prince of Crime ahead and bringing his personal contact — one thing that may stand outdoors of the Oscar-winning turns from Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix. Come on, you noticed what he did as a teenage character in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, think about the derangement he might convey to one of the vital charismatic, sadistic villains on the market.
Exterior of his dip into the DC realm, Barry Keoghan has had a stellar — and much-deserved — run as of late, coming into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Eternals the 12 months earlier than and incomes his first Academy Award nomination with The Banshees of Inisherin. He can subsequent be seen in Saltburn from Promising Younger Girl director Emerald Fennell.
As for the whereabouts of the Joker, Phoenix is ready to reprise Arthur Fleck with subsequent 12 months’s sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, with Woman Gaga stepping in as Harley Quinn.
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