Joker’s new disorder

Actor Joaquin Phoenix has had to lose a significant amount of weight to fit the role of Joker. He opened up about how the transformation had taken a toll on him, to the point where it became a disorder. He said, "Once you reach the target weight, everything changes. Like so much of what's difficult is waking up every day and being obsessed over like 0.3 pounds. Right? And you really develop like a disorder…...But what I didn't anticipate was this feeling of kind of fluidity that I felt physically. I felt like I could move my body in ways that I hadn't been able to before. And I think that really lent itself to some of the physical movement that started to emerge as an important part of the character."