Mark Hamill Based Joker Voice On ‘The Invisible Man’ & Jay Leno https://t.co/0inqmJxWCspic.twitter.com/mpHw3CrBqF
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Hamill discussed voicing the Joker and his inspirations for the role.
"I would imitate the old Universal horror films and I realize, in retrospect, I wasn’t doing it consciously, but Claude Rains as The Invisible Man. [As Rains] ‘Crazy? You think I’m crazy? I’ll show you who’s crazy!’ So he had sort of the grit that I incorporated into it. And I said to voiceover people later, I would do a character and I would say, ‘It’s sort of like Howard Cosell meets Jay Leno. Is that a cheat?’"
“I would say, with The Joker, he’s different every time you play him,” Hamill continued. “You try and play him like the first time you’ve ever done it. In one script, he’s meant to be really menacing and another was a parody of Thelma and Louise where Harley and Ivy teamed up and Joker was left shuffling around the apartment in furry slippers and totally cuckolded, so he was played as kind of a goof in that one. So he’s different every time. That’s the way I look at it. But, boy, I’ve had so much fun doing it.”
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