7 Little Known Tics That Defined Jared Leto's Joker Performance

4. It's A Portrait Of Difference

Just as Heath Ledger consciously chose to make his performance as The Joker markedly different to what Jack Nicholson had done before him, Leto purposefully built his Joker away from the other actors in his stead.

The make-up team chose to avoid any sort of permanent facial disfigurement (apart from the missing teeth that required the grill, of course and his palor isn't down to make-up.

But his physicality and his voice (and laugh) are also markedly different to what came before and it's very clear that this is neither an ostentatious pantomime performer or a chaotic agent of mischief. He has elements of both within him, but Leto draws more on the wiry modern Joker from the comics and makes him a gangster to set him apart. Even the way he moves is nothing like the confident gait of either of the other cinematic Jokers - it's almost as if he's trying to create an anti-Joker in terms of what had been done.

And while it's inevitable that some would compare his performance, anyway, the lack of specific parallels makes that a little harder to do.