In 2005 there were rumors that Christopher Nolan wanted Sean Penn to play The Joker in The Dark Knight. Now 13 years later, Penn has addressed those rumors on the latest episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“I don’t recall that. If he did, he never told me himself,” Penn replied when asked about the rumors that Christopher Nolan wanted him as The Joker. “Between the indelible one that Jack [Nicholson] did, and then when Heath Ledger came along and made it a new kind of rock and roll. Listen, yes, over the years I’ve been offered a couple of things that became extremely successful genre pictures, and in most cases when I looked at them I think that with me in it, they would not have been extremely successful genre pictures.”
Obviously we lucked out and got an amazing Joker in Heath Ledger, but how do you think Sean Penn would’ve done in the role? Let me know in the comments below.
SOURCE: Happy Sad Confused (via ComicBook.com)
