"It just looks violent and vicious, and that's what we wanted because that's the first time you really see Arthur go crazy on somebody." "It didn't look rehearsed at all," Aguilar says. Phoenix opted for a quick thrust to the neck, then the eye, and some head bashing for good measure. So we told the stunt double, 'This is what we prepared, but you just don't know, and you have to roll with it, basically.'" Would he stab the stunt double in the heart? In the neck? Stunts like these are always meticulously choreographed, but when you're working with an actor like Phoenix, who thrives on doing the unexpected, a certain degree of flexibility is required.
Stunt coordinator George Aguilar didn't know where actor Joaquin Phoenix - on the way to transitioning Arthur to the murderous Joker - would strike.
Today, we're speaking with the SAG-nominated stunt coordinator George Aguilar of Joker.Īrthur Fleck was about to kill his former clown colleague Randall.
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