Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix Were Offered the Role of the Joker in The Dark Knight, But Turned it Down
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix were both offered the role of Joker in The Dark Knight , but ended up turning it down, according to the film's casting director. When speaking at the Nashville Film Festival (via TV Intelligentsia and Batman News ), Christopher Nolan's longtime casting director…