The new movie Joker: Folie a Deux doesn’t actively feature the Batman villain Two-Face, but it does feature the origin story for the character.
Director Todd Phillips has confirmed that a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it moment in the movie reveals that one of the characters actually turns into Two-Face.
So, who is it?
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It’s Harvey Dent, played by Industry actor Harry Lawtey. Of course, if you’re familiar with the Batman story and previous movies in the superhero world, you’ll already know that Harvey Dent turns into Two-Face. Aaron Eckhart portrayed the character in 2008′s The Dark Knight and Tommy Lee Jones played him in 1995′s Batman Forever.
What happens that turns Harvey into Two-Face?
In a big finale moment of the movie, a massive explosion happens right outside the courthouse as Arthur Fleck is being sentenced for his crimes. We see Harvey laying in the rubble with half of his face burned.
“Yes, of course,” Todd told EW about Harvey being Two-Face. “[We’re] trying to put a realistic answer to why certain things happen. Why does he have [that face]?”
Todd noted that Harry is “playing the character before that character, he’s the young D.A. All we’re doing is saying, let’s use this lore as a foundation, but run it through a realistic lens, or at least a different lens than it’s been run through in other things, to make it our own.”
He added that omitting the Two-Face name from the movie was “not out of disrespect to the original material, not out of rejecting some other person’s idea. [It’s] just out of, how do we make this our own?”
Only four cast members from the first Joker movie returned for the sequel.
