Following on from the recent full trailer and today's covers, Empire has shared two new images from Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie À Deux, giving us another look at Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck alongside Lady Gaga, who will play this movie's take on Harley Quinn, "Lee."

Phoenix never seemed particularly interested in reprising his role for a sequel to Joker in interviews around the time of the movie's release, so what ultimately convinced him to return? It seems the script taking some unexpected turns and the ideas it presented feeling "dangerous" were the declining factors.

“It’s the only way that I can do any movie,” the actor explains. “If it doesn’t feel like it’s dangerous, if there’s not a good chance that you’re gonna fail spectacularly, then... what’s the point?”

“That was literally the reason to do it,” adds Phillips. “The only reason Joaquin...