star David Dastmalchian says the film's demonic talk show has something in common with Heath Ledger's Joker. "The Cairnes brothers sent me a bunch of footage that they accumulated of Don Lane. He was the Johnny Carson of
Australian television. He did this famous interview with Tom Waits, and a lot of people think Heath Ledger took inspiration from it for his portrayal of The Joker," Dastmalchian told . "[The likelihood of shared inspiration] is pretty cool, and it’s also the cyclical nature of being a storyteller and the strange path that it’s followed." The was broadcast on
Late Night Australian TV in 1979, and involves a very calm Don Lane and a rather chaotic 29-year-old Tom Waits. A seemingly inebriated Waits sits down next to Lane, and when you fast forward to the 1:45 timestamp – your jaw will drop. Waits' voice is near-identical to the one Ledger used for The Dark Knight's Joker, and the mannerisms are similar as well. Oddly enough, Dastmalchian had a small part in The as Thomas Schiff, a cop who is revealed to be a henchman for the Joker. The found footage horror, written and directed by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, stars Dastmalchian as the host of a 1970s talk show who invites an allegedly possessed young girl onto the show for a special
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