Joaquin Phoenix stormed out of an interview when asked if his “Joker” could incite unhinged fans with a “mass-shooter mindset.”

The 44-year-old actor, who got an 8-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival for his portrayal of the deranged villain, flipped when probed by The Telegraph‘s film critic, Robbie Collin.

“Aren’t you worried that this film might perversely end up inspiring exactly the kind of people it’s about, with potentially tragic results?” the critic asked Phoenix, noting his Joker was “an unstable, self-pitying loner with a mass-shooter mindset.”

“Why? Why would you…? No… no,” the star asked, walking toward Collin to clasp his hands before walking out on him, according to the UK paper.

Phoenix finally returned to finish the interview after an hour’s “peace-brokering” with a Warner Bros PR, Collin said.

“Did you bug out?” the star asked with a giggle — saying he panicked because he had never considered the seemingly obvious question, Collin noted.

Phoenix, who admitted only seeing the Jokers previously played by Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson, said he was not too worried about the film’s success.

“I don’t get pleasure out of the idea of being seen in a movie. ‘It makes me more uncomfortable than anything,” he told the critic.

“The reason I do it is I f–king love doing it.”