Joker actor honored the late star who played the DC Comics villain before him.
“When I started acting again and going to auditions, I’d get to the final callback and…. [I’d] always lose to this one kid, no actor would ever say his name because it was too much,” he recalled of DiCaprio while the crowd laughed. “”You have been an inspiration for over 25 years to me and so many people.”
Though the actors haven’t starred in a film together, they have played the same character, with Phoenix playing Garry Buckman-Lampkin in Ron Howard’s 1988 filmPhoenix went on to praise Bale’s commitment to his roles in ways that he could “only dream” of: “It’s infuriating,” he joked before begging Bale to “just suck once.”
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