Jared Leto is the ultimate performance artist and his role as The Joker in Suicide Squad is proof. The people that think the behind the scenes shenanigans he was pulling was to psyche himself up for the role are among the butt of the joke. He used his role to satirize the concept of method acting and the braindead “film buffs” who put “method actors” on pedestals. He knew the film was going to be shit, the quality had nothing to do with the decision to sign onto the film. His role was a conduit for a much larger statement about film. Film is an escapist medium for people and is inherently a joke of a medium. It’s not taken seriously despite how hard fat greasy McDonalds arthouse Tarkovsky connoisseur would have you think otherwise. He sent his co-stars boxes of dead rats and rotten condoms to prove to their warped senses of self-worth that they’re scum and that nobody gives a shit that they can put on a costume and say memorized lines for 2 hours. He did this as social commentary to mock the likes of Day-Lewis and Robert Deniro who take themselves very seriously despite being glorified prostitutes. Leto proved that no matter how seriously you take your job as an ‘actor’ you’re still a fucking clown. This is not only the superior rendition of ‘The Joker’ but it’s also the greatest political statement ever made about Hollywood.