There is a new tourist attraction in the Bronx,
and it sucks.
- Yeah! - All right?
Trash.
Outrage.
REPORTER: A set of stairs in the Bronx
plays a crucial role in the new "Joker" movie.
And now they're getting the social media treatment.
Instagrammers and fans are flocking to the steps
to get the perfect photo.
Hold up.
Who here is from the Bronx?
AUDIENCE: Yeah!
Yeah.
You know those stairs.
Who here hates these steps?
AUDIENCE: Yeah!
Who here has almost died going down these steps in the winter
when they don't shovel them?
Who here stays on the BX13 to go up so you don't
have to get on those steps?
And now you've got people coming from Switzerland, like,
[GERMAN GIBBERISH].
Shit is terrible, man.
You can't shoot a movie where I once smoked angel dust.
It's not allowed.
And people like, what if we had sex on the steps?
I was like, yeah, people have sex on the steps all the time.
All the time, dawg.
It ain't sexy.
Nuh-uh.
You usually smell it before you see it.
Spent a lot of time on them steps.
Seen a lot of motherfuckers get thrown down on them steps.
[LAUGHS]
REPORTER: There are no superheroes
in this movie, and no ordinary heroes, either--
just a troubled man played by Joaqin Phoenix
who has various transformations in his life filmed right here
on these stairs at the corner of Shakespeare and Jerome avenues.
That's the funny thing about that whole area is,
like, they've got funny street names
like Shakespeare Avenue or Featherbed Lane and shit like--
nah, this shit was dangerous.
Shakespeare used to live over there.
[LAUGHS]
He's my nigga.
I used to be on the block.
He'd be like, yo, I wrote this sonnet, my nigga.
MERO: Yo, yo.
I was like, yo, word. Facts, facts.
Right?
Yo.
I was like, yo, that Romeo and Juliet, nigga?
Super fly, dawg.
And I'm so excited for this movie.
I want to feel what he feel.
No, you don't.
No, you do not.
You don't want to feel Julio's boot in the back of your back.
And you flying down the stairs uncontrollably, like--
REPORTER: That's the reason these narrow stairs
now getting some attention.
Maybe the next big tourist attraction?
Goosebumps.
I almost-- I just got mugged two minutes ago.
[LAUGHS]
Wow, wow.
This guy came up to me-- no mask on.
Gun right in my ribs-- give me your shit.
Gave him my iPhone 11, my iPad Pro-- it was awesome.
Like, it's an amazing experience.
Five minutes ago, when I was driving,
I was getting excited for this.
And I didn't know why, but I was, like--
I just imagine, like, all the titis
walking down the stairs, like--
Yeah, just trying to go do laundry--
Hey, wait, wait!
--just trying to live their life.
(HISPANIC ACCENT) Why-- what you doing here?
What you do here?
It's dangerous for you here.
You police?
You no police?
Go away.
Go away right now.
I tell you.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
REPORTER: As many take pictures mimicking
that famous pose by the joker as he dances down these stairs.
Come on, man.
Is she dancing to Jeremy Renner?
What's going on, dude?
(SINGING) So Poppa, keep your cool.
I gotta tell you.
So Poppa, keep your cool.
I gotta tell you.
So Poppa, keep your cool.
I gotta tell you.
(SINGING) These stairs will never be the same.
JEREMY RENNER: (SINGING) I'll never be the same.
He was going through some huge change,
and it was like, he is--
DESUS: Does she got a warrant?
Like, why you look--
Like, y'all, I got an open case.
But I'm gonna talk about "Joker."
It was good cinema.
He's like, yo!
This is my mixtape.
That's the guy to just yell at you at a bodega.
What "Joker?"
What the fuck are y'all talking about?
I'm just-- I-- this is my cover for Clap a Nigga Volume V.
[OUTRO MUSIC]