Joaquin Phoenix On ‘Joker 2’ Weight Loss: ‘In all probability Should not Do This Once more’ – The Boston Courier

Joaquin Phoenix shocked the world when he dropped a whopping 52 kilos for 2019’s “Joker” in a efficiency that gained him an Oscar for Greatest Actor. Now, he’s revealing why shedding the load once more for its sequel has been tougher this time round.

“I’m not going to talk through specifics of the diet, because I just think nobody wants to hear that. But this time, it felt a bit more complicated, just because there was so much dance rehearsal that we were doing, which I didn’t have last time,” Phoenix mentioned throughout a Venice Movie Pageant press convention on Wednesday, Folks stories.

“So it felt a bit more difficult, but it is safe. But you’re right, I’m now 49, I probably shouldn’t do this again,” he added. “This is probably it for me.”

In 2020, the actor revealed he ate a particularly restrictive weight loss plan, supervised by a health care provider, to realize his gaunt-like look in “Joker.” To rework into the enduring antihero, Phoenix mentioned on the time that he largely ate “lettuce and steamed green beans.”

The “Gladiator” alum went on to share that his co-star Girl Gaga (actual title Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) needed to undergo some bodily adjustments of her personal to play the Joker’s villainous love curiosity, Harley Quinn.

“Stefani also lost a lot of weight,” he advised reporters through the press convention.

“I remember when I first met you in rehearsals and then you went away and when you came back, you lost a lot of weight. It was really impressive,” he added, to Germanotta.

Elsewhere through the convention, Phoenix admitted he doesn’t know the precise quantity of weight he misplaced for the sequel, regardless of holding monitor final time.

“I know I was responsible last time for talking about it, but it’s difficult to do so that becomes your obsession because you’re working the entire time to get to a certain weight,” he defined.

“So then you end up talking about it, and then it just sounds like an actor going on and on about how much weight they lost. By the end of that run I was so sick of myself and angry at myself for making such a big deal about that part, because you just do what you’re fucking supposed to do. So this time I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that,’” he added.

He then teased the group by whispering into the mic, “It was 47 pounds,” solely to say that he was kidding.

“Joker: Folie à Deux” is ready to hit theaters Oct. 4.