Joker 2 actor rips own movie as ‘worst film ever made’ after it fails at box office

A Joker 2:Folie À Deux star has called the movie “terrible”, claiming other co-stars predicted during filming that it would tank.

Comedian and actor Tim Dillon didn’t have to see much in his limited time on the set of Joker: Folie À Deux, to know the movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga wouldn’t resonate with the public.

Dillon, who played an Arkham Asylum guard in the flick, slammed his own movie during a candid conversation with Joe Rogan on his podcast.

“I was in Joker 2, which just came out. It’s the worst film that has ever been made,” the New York native admitted.

“I heard it was so bad,” Rogan quipped.

“It’s actually not ‘so bad,’ it’s the worst film ever made,” Dillon reiterated.

Comedian and actor Tim Dillon has slammed his new movie Joker 2 in a podcast with Joe Rogan.

The original Joker film, released in 2019, raked in more than $US1 billion at the box office, making it the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. The highly anticipated sequel was released in early October, but grossed an underwhelming $US200 million.

“I think what happened, after the first Joker, there was a lot of like talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people and this sent the wrong kind of [message]. Male rage! Nihilism!’ You know, all these thinkpieces. And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing, to a point where it’s insane.”

Dillon played an Arkham Asylum guard in the flick. Picture: Warner Bros.

Joaquin Phoenix reprises his title role in Joker 2. Picture: Warner Bros.

The 2019 feature, directed by Todd Phillips, was criticised ahead of and after its release due to the romanticisation of evil and the celebration of a mass-murderer in Phoenix’s character.

Rogan asked what would motivate Phillips, who also directed Folie À Deux, to make such a terrible picture.

“Because it’s hubris, number one. The idea that … people love it so much, they’re gonna accept it in any version,” Dillon theorised.

“It has no plot,” he added of the film, revealing that he and his fellow actors on set knew the movie would flop.

Lady Gaga joins Phoenix in the sequel. Picture: Warner Bros.

“We would sit there – me and these other guys, we’re all dressed in these f***ing security outfits ‘cause we’re working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them, and we’d hear this crap, and I’d go, ‘What the f**k is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is gonna bomb, man.’”

Dillon doubled-down on his disgust of the film, saying “it’s not even hate-watchable, that’s how terrible it is.”

The actor, 39, says he could sense in the cinemas that the audience wasn’t getting it.

“You’re sitting there and there’s these people, you know, in the [cinema], and they’re all confused, and I’m watching their reactions, and they’re all like staring and everything.” Admitting the film starts out with promise, Dillon says its downfall is the movie’s transition into a musical.

The comedian said he knew the movie would tank even during filming. Picture: Ben Cohen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“I think they thought that this would be received differently,” Dillon said of the visionaries. “I think they’re maybe in a little bit of a bubble.”

“All they had to do was blow some sh*t up, have ‘em escape from prison, have ’em do something. Get a couple scenes in the courthouse, or something. …The first one was really great,” he said. “And if you were a fan of the first one, the second one was like, kind of, I think, insane.”

“It would be like if Godfather 2 was about like, the Corleone family going legit … and apologising for the mafia,” he joked. “They were like, ‘Hey, I’m sorry we did all this sh*t. We now have a bakery.’”

A representative for Phillips and Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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