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Joker — Todd Phillips

Todd Phillips’ First Impression and Connor Storrie’s Joker: Folie à Deux Experience

In an email to GQ, [Todd] Phillips remembered meeting a then-unknown Storrie on Zoom for the first time, explaining: “What stood out most for me was his nuanced physicality and his wonderful intensity. We were able to chat for a bit and I remember picking up on how he seemed super committed to the craft, which seems like a no-brainer but isn’t always evident with younger, ‘newer’ actors. I liked him right away.” [...] Storrie wasn’t part of the press plans, but he flew himself to Italy anyway and crashed in a friend’s hotel room. “I wanted to be the first one to see it,” he explains. “I couldn’t even really pay attention to the story. Because I was like, I can’t believe I’m about to see myself, in this auditorium full of people, kill Joaquin Phoenix.”