Joaquin won the Best Actor award again for "Joker" and paid tribute to Heath Ledger

The award-winning "Joker" won the Best Actor Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards today (January 20), but what's important is that the winner, Joaquin Phoenix, the lead actor of "Joker", paid tribute to Heath Ledger in his acceptance speech, and Joaquin said that he stood on Heath Ledger's shoulders.

At the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor, Joaquin Phoenix said: "I stand on the shoulders of my favorite actor, Heath Ledger." In 2008, Heath Ledger's Joker was very popular, and netizens also liked that Heath Ledger and the Joker were a perfect combination. Without Heath Ledger's dramatic version of the Joker in "Batman: The Dark Knight", the image of the Joker might never have been filmed specifically to present it. In fact, many actors are forced to be compared with Heath Ledger after playing the Joker, and this situation has always troubled them.

Earlier at the Venice Film Festival, Joaquin Phoenix told the media that if Arthur Fleck (the Joker's real name) in the movie "Joker" was a rounded and normal image, it would be completely different from what he thought. He said: "In fact, I think I am interested in Arthur because I can't find a better word to describe him. (Playing Arthur) is not just torture, but even a little joy. This is his way of finding happiness, feeling connection, feeling warmth and struggling in love. This is also part of my interest in the role, and I think it's worth exploring. I don't think a character is painful. I never define a character in this way."

Joaquin Phoenix Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor

Before the release of Joker, Christian Bale, the star of The Dark Knight, said he found Joaquin brave enough to follow in Ledger's footsteps after accepting Heath Ledger's vicious challenge. Bale said: "Joaquin Phoenix is ​​one of the best actors I've ever been around, but I've worked with Heath. You know, it takes courage to continue to play the Joker on the screen, and he (Joaquin) always makes interesting choices."