🤡 Interesting fact: Joker (2019) — Joaquin Phoenix’s haunting, high-pitched laugh was developed after the actor spent months watching videos of people suffering from pathological laughter, a medical condition that causes uncontrollable nervous outbursts. Phoenix wanted the laugh to feel “painful” rather than joyful, treating it as a physical symptom of Arthur Fleck’s trauma. He lost 52 pounds for the role by eating little more than an apple a day, which he claimed made him feel a sense of “phys