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10 Actors You Probably Didn’t Know Almost Played The Joker

With Suicide Squad now in theatres, we're about to get yet another version of, come on let’s just come out and say it, the most popular villain in all of pop culture (Darth Vader doesn’t count, he eventually went good). Jared Leto joins a long line of esteemed actors to have played Batman’s eternal nemesis the Joker on both the small and silver screens – Jack Nicholson, Cesar Romero, Heath Ledger, Mark Hamill, etc.
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2) David Bowie

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David-Bowie

The Thin White Duke himself David Bowie could have been the Thin White Joker if plans to cast him as Batman’s nemesis had come to pass in the late 80s. Batman writer Sam Hamm thought Bowie would have been the perfect choice for the character: “Bowie would be kind of neat because he’s very funny when he does sinister roles,” he has said.

We would be inclined to agree as the late, great musical genius proved his natural talent at portraying a villain in 1986’s Labyrinth. In that film, he plays a baby-snatching goblin king who lusts over a teenage girl – and yet you still love him. Entertaining the audience while committing unsavoury deeds is necessity for the Joker and Bowie would have had that down pat.


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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'