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[camwyn]

I got to see the debut of the animated Batman: The Killing Joke in a movie theater yesterday (it's out on DVD, the bigscreen stuff was just a promo). I think I can safely say that if Jared Leto really claims to be sooooooooooooo messed up and sooooooooooooo psychologically scarred and sooooooo forever darkened by playing a PG-13 eyebrowless wonder of a Joker in Suicide Squad, then he is a lousy actor. A good actor produces a convincing evil madman by, you know... acting. Like Mark Hamill, who was fantastic as this Joker.

Also? As the Joker, he's a fantastic singer. No, seriously, they took the song the Joker does during the tunnel-o-madness sequence in the original comic and made it into a Broadway-style musical dance number, and Hamill sang the whole thing perfectly.

So, yeah. Mr. Leto, unless your performance turns out to be a million times better than I suspect it is going to be, your 'ooooh darkness in my sooooooooooooul' fails to impress me. Mr. Hamill has been doing something far nastier and far more messed up for far longer and he's to this day one of the nicest actors I've seen in interviews.

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[bjornwilde]

I've long taken the whole "Joker curse" as marketing hype. If it's not, it's Leto getting too into the role and not the role getting into him.

[camwyn]

I've seen some indications in a few places that Leto is a jerk to his fellow actors behind the scenes and has generally acted like someone you only hang out with if you really have to. I get the impression that he's just using the Joker part as an excuse to be more of a jerk than usual.

[bjornwilde]

That's been my take away from this. I know I've read stories of him doing this on the set for Suicide Squad, do you know if he's done it at other sets?