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A brand new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux simply hit the web, pleasing followers of comedian e-book films and completely thrilling followers of “gradual movement gyrating on staircases” films. Todd Phillips’ follow-up to 2019’s shockingly profitable, billion dollar-earning Joker options a number of lavish musical numbers involving Girl Gaga, and apparently zero references to Batman, who’s presumably nonetheless only a small boy on this more and more complicated universe.
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One intriguing element within the trailer: Steve Coogan is in it! The British comedy star can briefly be seen in some sort of an interrogation room, together with Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, sandwiched between two TV cameras.
When he appeared within the earlier teaser trailer, U.Okay. followers have been shocked by Coogan’s presence, with some likening it to a “soar scare” and others claiming that they have been “fully taken out” of the world of the film when Coogan confirmed up. Though the perfect tackle Coogan’s casting could have been the suggestion that the scene will contain him and The Joker unloading dueling Michael Caine impressions.
So who’s Coogan taking part in? Nicely, in line with the actor, he’s solely in a single scene, portraying a cable TV interviewer who sits down for a chat with The Joker, aka Arthur Fleck.
Steve Coogan is taking part in a TV present host? Might that imply that his long-time comedy alter ego Alan Partridge is now part of the DC universe?
The character has but to be named on the movie’s IMDb web page, so there’s all the time an opportunity that he could possibly be known as “Alan Partridge,” in reference to Coogan’s fictional chat present host. Partridge was first created by Coogan and Armando Iannucci for the satirical radio information program On the Hour, method again in 1991.
After spying Coogan within the trailer, followers couldn’t assist however level out that the concept of Partridge assembly The Joker will surely be attention-grabbing.
Clearly, it is a little far-fetched. However whereas Coogan’s character could not actually be known as “Alan Partridge” within the movie, hiring him within the function of a TV interviewer appears like a symbolic meta-nod to Partridge, not in contrast to how the primary film solid Robert De Niro as a late-night discuss present host, seemingly as a tribute to his iconic efficiency as Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (which Joker liberally borrowed from).
As Fard Muhammad identified on social media, Coogan’s character could also be patterned off of The Tomorrow Present host Tom Snyder and his well-known interview with Charles Manson. In any case, their haircuts aren’t so dissimilar.
Though, in Joker: Folie à Deux, Coogan’s character is sporting a tie, whereas Snyder’s opted for no tie — presumably as a result of it’s by no means an awesome thought to put on potential strangulation units whereas visiting murderous cult leaders.
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