One Year Later, ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE Star Jared Leto Reflects On Returning As The Joker (Exclusive)

One Year Later, ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE Star Jared Leto Reflects On Returning As The Joker (Exclusive)

Believe it or not, it's now been just over a year since Zack Snyder's Justice League arrived on HBO Max, and we recently got Morbius star Jared Leto's thoughts on his return as The Joker...

By JoshWilding - Mar 29, 2022 04:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Justice League

On March 18, 2021, Zack Snyder's Justice League was finally released on HBO Max. We never thought the "Snyder Cut" would see the light of day, but after the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign finally broke Warner Bros. down, they allowed the filmmaker to share his vision for the movie with the world. 

It received a far warmer critical response than Joss Whedon's 2017 disaster, and Snyder even shot a few extra scenes for an epilogue that set the stage for his planned sequels. Jared Leto's Joker got to return, and the Suicide Squad star gained what many felt was redemption after most of his performance as the Clown Prince of Crime in that 2016 movie was left on the cutting room floor.

During our recent conversation with the Oscar-winner (who is doing the rounds to promote Morbius), we asked what that response meant to him and how it felt to reprise the villainous role.
 


"It was great. Working with Zack is a beautiful thing. I adore him," Leto enthuses in the video interview above. "I really loved the opportunity. It was really special and I enjoyed it a lot. It’s a unique thing to have been part of DC and to now have been part of Marvel. It’s pretty amazing."

It's hard to say whether we could see more of this Joker down the line. Joaquin Phoenix played the iconic Batman villain in Joker, of course, while Matt Reeves has chosen Eternals star Barry Keoghan to be The Batman franchise's Harlequin of Hate. Despite the Snyder Cut of Justice League supposedly being a hit for Warner Bros., it doesn't appear as if the studio is looking to continue that story.

Stranger things have happened, and, as far as we know, Leto will still be the DCEU's Joker even after The Flash rewrites reality. It would certainly be interesting to pit this Clown Prince of Crime against Michael Keaton's Dark Knight, though the two actors can be seen together before then in Morbius

Morbius will be released in cinemas on March 31.
 

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DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 3/29/2022, 4:13 PM
Same old comments, debates and insults in 3-2-1 …
DannyDischarge
DannyDischarge - 3/29/2022, 4:14 PM
I would have enjoyed 2016’s Suicide Squad as a so-bad-that-it’s-good cringe fest if Jared Leto’s Joker was in it more.
XnotAcitizenX
XnotAcitizenX - 3/29/2022, 4:15 PM
He's easily the worst part of each universe. Congrats.
dracula
dracula - 3/29/2022, 4:15 PM
Worst Joker of all time. (Including animated ones)
dracula
dracula - 3/29/2022, 4:16 PM
Has 2 or 3 moments left
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 3/29/2022, 4:18 PM
His teeth smell weird
grif
grif - 3/29/2022, 4:25 PM
boy o boy was that scene too long
Super12
Super12 - 3/29/2022, 4:36 PM
Worst joker by FAR....but...I'll admit the Snyder Cut did a lot to make him somewhat palatable. I actually really enjoyed that exchange between him and Bats surrounded by that post-apocalyptic setting. I could probably stomach more if I had to...maybe.

RichardGrayson
RichardGrayson - 3/29/2022, 4:43 PM
Go away Jared Leto
micvalpro
micvalpro - 3/29/2022, 4:43 PM
Leto is so overrated. He’s a decent actor at best.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 3/29/2022, 4:46 PM
Good interview. Nice questions, Josh.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 3/29/2022, 5:07 PM
Zack Snyder's Justice League is a real pearl.

And by "pearl", I mean it from the perspective of the oyster: a constant irritation that your body can neither expel nor absorb, a glittering horrible cyst that grows and grows until finally someone splits you open to pry it from your flesh and in your dying moments, you may know some transient peace. The pain. The pain is gone. Darkness.
Moriakum
Moriakum - 3/29/2022, 5:08 PM
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 3/29/2022, 5:27 PM
We live in a society
VileBlood
VileBlood - 3/29/2022, 5:37 PM
I want to know how many Snyder fans stood up and cheered for this scene?

Can we get a poll to find out?
MovieMonster
MovieMonster - 3/29/2022, 5:40 PM
Honestly, I'm a little Joker'd out. Leto was terrible, Pheonix was great, and what we've seen of Keoghan is interesting but I'd like to see Reeves' franchise explore other rogues and maybe have Joker pulling the strings in the back. It would be a change of pace.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 3/29/2022, 5:43 PM
Never really could take him seriously, plus he didn't even laugh but instead had this wear low roar.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 3/29/2022, 6:05 PM
I just love how Ayer made him this hunka hunka gangster and Snyder then made him this weird cult leader. Nothing was ever Joker about the character, and I applaud them for making a character that unrecognizable
lordSTALE
lordSTALE - 3/30/2022, 1:21 AM
@bkmeijer1 - Snyder thanked Ayer for "creating" the character then immediately changed every single "creative" choice Ayer made to that Joker except the cringe acting (and laugh) 😂😂😂
TheVengeance
TheVengeance - 3/29/2022, 6:23 PM
IDK why but deep down as a former athlete and competitor, and I know it’s just entertainment but the disloyal DC and Marvel actor flip floppers for some reason bothers me haha
Vigor
Vigor - 3/29/2022, 6:26 PM
@TheVengeance - that's just.. silly lol
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