Zazie Beetz is in talks to reprise the role of Sophie Dumond in directing Todd Phillips’ arriving Joker next project, Joker: Folie for two. She will join Joaquin Phoenix And Lady Gaga who will play Joker and Harley Quinn in the film.
The sequel will be a musical set primarily in Arkham Asylum, which is sure to be an interesting sequel. Beetz recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter and shared his thoughts on the sequel being a musical and thinks the gender shift “makes wonderful sense” and aligns with Phillips’ “creative approach to character”:
“I actually think it makes wonderful sense. I wasn’t really surprised. Todd [Phillips] he always had a creative approach to the character. I love musicals and I think of them as the characters feel and experience so much that they can only sing and dance about it, both with pain and with joy. “
Beetz went on to say that he finds singing and dancing a “cathartic experience” and said it would make sense for Arthur, who is “feeling and experiencing so much,” to switch to music, explained:
“I can actually see it inside of me too, because singing and dancing is a pretty cathartic experience for me. I was going through a really, really difficult time at some point in my life, and I just started dancing and crying on my own. And that was an expression that matched what I was in at the time. And so I can see Arthur, who is trying and experimenting so much, dancing and singing about it. He’s the Joker, so I think it makes sense to me. “
She also talked about her character’s fate explaining that Sophie survived the first film because her character “never actively hurt Arthur” and her victims were “generally people who hurt him openly” and her character was just “a spectator of his situation”:
“Yes, in my mind, she lives because she never actively harmed Arthur. Her victims in the film were generally people who hurt him openly. Even in the horror of her realization around her own mood, she acknowledges that she is more of a kind of spectator to his situation than actor to his situation.So, to me, it made sense that she would not be harmed by him because his harm was intentional to some people and then to society in general, from which he also felt offended in a So, in my mind, she comes out unscathed, at least physically “.
Now, it looks like we’ll see her story arc continue into the sequel. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Source: Deadline
by Joey Paur
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