I do feel like it should be said that Ledger wasnât even working on Batman when he died. It was a different project entirely, and his overdose was likely accidental carelessness owing to multiple doctors in different cities or areas prescribing him different medications that shouldnât have been taken together, because if youâre rich enough you can wander into a doctorâs office and go âI have X issue, nothing Iâm doing is managing it properly, give me something for itâ, and theyâll just take your word for it. So Health Ledgerâs death probably has only a little bit to do with Dark Knight (or not at all) and a LOT more to do with his well-known issues with anxiety and depression, which heâd admittedly struggled with long before Batman. The people who worked with him on Batman have never said much about him seeming âdisturbedâ or otherwise bothered by the role out of character, and was even one of the nicer and more upbeat people on set. The only people who have implied that the Joker pushed him toward a mental breakdown were people writing speculative articles, fans who wanted a satisfying reason for his death, and⊠Jack Nicholson, who was already bitter before Ledger died that he didnât call Nicholson for advice on how to play the character, because Nicholson owns the Joker, apparently.
So Leto is capitalizing on this âitâll make you KUH-RAZYâ thing that isnât actually a thing (because, like storywonker said, Hamillâs been doing it forever and a day with a much more manic persona for the character and is fine) and is passively perpetuating a lie about a man who, in life, was an intensely private person. Leto is trying to out-Joker Ledger by being an unprofessional dipshit who harasses his coworkers when his competition isnât even alive. Assnugget.
Also, Ryan Reynolds understands how humor works. How he plays up Deadpool is entirely comedic. Itâs good-natured and laugh-with-me (and laugh-AT-me) rather than inviting an audience to laugh at other people once heâs purposely made them uncomfortable. Leto sent someone a dead rat; Reynolds told some jokes with a few kids dressed as X-Men who were in on it. Leto is trying to ~comment on society~ with his ~edginess~ in one of those âisnât it hilarious that people have POSITIVE FEELINGS ABOUT ANYTHING ahahahaâ; Reynolds shitposts on Twitter.Â
People DO make fun of Ryan Reynolds. The difference is that Reynolds is in on YOUR JOKE because he started it, so itâs in good fun even if you genuinely dislike him. Leto is mistaking unfunny miscondect for quirk and edge. People are making fun of Leto because Leto isnât in on the joke that is his behavior, so he wonât â and canât â roll with it and make it genuinely entertaining like Reynolds does.
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