Jared Leto pays tribute to past Jokers

Jared Leto has saluted past actors to have taken on the role of The Joker.

Leto told Entertainment Weekly: “The work that’s been done on this character by so many people before me has been so impactful, so incredible, so much fun, so profound, so risky, that it’s a very special thing to be asked to take on that responsibility,”

He also then compared playing the role with Shakespeare’s Hamlet “Actors reinterpret roles – that’s been going on for a great deal of time. From Scarface to Hamlet. In some ways it’s really interesting to reinterpret, redefine.”

“You just knew you had to do something different, you had to make it your own. That happens all the time.”

You can see Jared Leto’s turn as The Joker in Suicide Squad which hits screens on August 5.