The Batman Director Reveals How Barry Keoghan's Joker Got Those Scars
The following contains spoilers for The BatmanThe Batman has managed to keep itself in the headlines for quite some time after its release, which is already one heck of an achievement. Granted, Batman v Superman has periodically kept itself in the minds of moviegoers over the years as well, but for admittedly very different reasons. The Batman, however, appears to be receiving almost universal praise, and that energy only intensified with a certain new recent revelation.
After Warner Bros. Pictures recently released a deleted scene from The Batman featuring Barry Keoghan's Joker in all his grotesque glory, new questions immediately began circulating. Why was the scene deleted from The Batman? Will this version of The Joker show up again? What's a good fast-acting upset stomach medicine? But perhaps one of the most morbidly interesting questions to surface is this: just how did this Joker get his scars?
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Well, in a fascinating reversal of expectations from The Dark Knight, it turns out these scars weren't self-inflicted, as might have been the case with Heath Ledger's iconic take on The Joker. According to director Matt Reeves, he was born that way. «It's like Phantom of the Opera,» Reeves explained to Variety. «He has a congenital disease where he can't stop smiling and it's horrific. His face is half-covered through most of the film.» This adds a new dimension to the character of The Joker. What if whatever made him a deranged killer affected him on the outside as well as the inside? Suddenly, some viewers may have begun to wonder why the scene was cut from The Batman in the first place.
«It's not about some version where he falls into a vat of chemicals and his face is distorted, or what
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