Willem Dafoe wants to play 'Joker Imposter' opposite Joaquin Phoenix in 'Joker 2'

Willem Dafoe was recently seen getting into show of his iconic villain Green Goblin/rman Osborn in movie Spider-Man: Way Home. In a recent interview, Dafoe opened up about what attracts him to play villains in movie and also shared an interesting plotline for a sequel of Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix. actor said that he would love to play iconic villain alongside Phoenix in sequel of movie if makers decide to make one. 

Willem Dafoe wants to play Joker alongside Joaquin Phoenix

In an interview with GQ, Willem Dafoe shared an interesting plotline for a possible Joker sequel and said he would love to play Joker alongside Joaquin Phoenix. Dafoe said, "re is something interesting about, like, if re was a Joker imposter. So it would be possible to have t dueling Jokers but someone that [claims] to be Joker that isn't Joker." 

He added, "And that kind of opens up possibility of an interesting story, particularly if you had Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and n you had someone who was eir imitating or riffing off what he did. I fantasized about that. But or than that I am t talking to anybody [about it], you're first one." 

Dafoe also opened up about what attracts him to play villains and said," I don’t kw what that is. I’ll play dumb. You play characters. I could say, ‘Oh yeah, it's fun to play villains ’cause you can do things that you can't do in life, or it's fun to play with your dark side’. But I don't kw. I'm t thinking about those things." 

Meanwhile, after success of Joker, re were rumours that makers were planning to make a sequel to movie, however, thing has been confirmed yet. In an interview with Playlist, Joaquin Phoenix was asked about Joker 2 and when it will go on floors, to which Pheonix said, "I mean, I dun. From when we were shooting, we started to —you kw, uhh, this is an interesting guy. re are some things we could do with this guy and could [explore] furr. But as to wher we actually will? I don't kw."