Watch Joaquin Phoenix Do a Creepy Dance in Joker , Anatomy of a Scene

A rundown bathroom with a flickering fluorescent light, a swooning piece of music and some slow, deliberate moves. Those spare ingredients go into crafting this downbeat but memorable moment from Joker. When the scene begins, Arthur Fleck the Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix) has just had an intense, lifedefining moment and finds a bathroom to collect and calm himself. He does so with a dance that the director Todd Phillips said Phoenix came up with on the day of the shoot. In his narration, Ph