clown pas de deux Actor Tim Dillon has a small role as an Arkham Asylum guard in Todd Phillips’ sequel. Joe Rogan podcast.
“I think what happened, after the first time clownthere was a lot of discussion, like, ‘Oh, this is what involuntary celibates like. This is loved by the wrong people. This sends the wrong message. Angry man! Nihilism! All these ideas. And then I thought, “What if we go the other way?” Now, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are tap dancing to crazy levels.
The song-and-dance blockbuster, which Warner Bros. declined to market as a musical but will send Phoenix and Gaga into the musical or comedy film category at the upcoming Golden Globes, was a hit both commercially and when it was released last month. Reviews failed.
The film grossed just under $38 million domestically in its first weekend, but fell 81% in its second weekend. Its global box office total was nearly $205 million, but more than $145 million came from overseas.
Clown: Pas de deux The film has a 32% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received a D CinemaScore from audiences.
Continuing to talk about the sequel, Dillon said the actors had a feeling while making it that they were making a bad movie.
“It had no plot. We would be sitting there, me and everyone else wearing these security suits because we worked at Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of these and we would hear this crap, and I would go, ‘This What the fuck? ’ They’d say, ‘This is going to explode, man.’ I said, ‘This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me…’ We were talking about it at lunch, and we’d say, ‘What’s the plot? “Is there a plot?” I don’t know, I think he fell in love with her in prison? …I can’t even stand the hatred. That’s how scary it is,” he told Rogan.
Last month, Quentin Tarantino praised Clown: Pas de deux Appear in Bret Easton Ellis podcast.
“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like it a lot, and I went to see it hoping to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it would be an intellectual exercise at arm’s length, and ultimately I didn’t Think it will work like a movie, but I will appreciate it for what it is,” the director said. “I’m just nihilistic to the point of enjoying a movie that doesn’t quite feel like a movie. In a way, it’s like a giant mess. I don’t think it’s an intellectual exercise. I really get caught up in it. I really like these musical sequences and I’m really stuck on them. I think the more mediocre the songs are, the better.
