‘Joker 2’ Actor Slams the Sequel: ‘The Worst Film Ever Made’

It’s not just audiences and movie critics that have rebelled against Joker: Folie a Deux, as even an actor who appeared in the ill-fated sequel has called it “the worst film ever made.”

Tim Dillon, an actor and comedian who played an Arkham Asylum guard in the movie, appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast to discuss what went wrong with the sequel, which was both critically reviled and a box-office bomb, the Hollywood Reporter writes.

“I think what happened, after the first Joker, there was a lot of talk like, ‘Ooh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces,” Dillon said. “And then I think ‘What if we went the other way?’ And now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane.”

Dillon added that, during filming, he and his unnamed co-stars were cognizant of the fact the sequel was “going to bomb.”

“It has no plot. We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these security outfits because we’re working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them, and we’d hear this crap, and I’d go, ‘What the fuck is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I go, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever…,’ Dillon said. 

“We were talking about it at lunch, and we’d go, ‘What is the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I think he falls in love with her in the prison?’”

As for whether Joker: Folie a Deux could enjoy a legacy as a so-bad-it’s-good movie, Dillon added, “It’s not even hate watchable. That’s how terrible it is.”

Joker: Folie a Deux currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 32%, compared to the original’s 68% score. While the first Joker became the highest-grossing rated-R movie by making over $1 billion at the box office — a record since broken by Deadpool & Wolverine — Joker: Folie a Deux limped to $200 million worldwide before stumbling out of theaters.

From Rolling Stone US.