Lady Gaga Wanted to Un-Gaga Herself for Joker: Folie à Deux

October’s Joker: Folie à Deux isn’t conscionable bringing backmost Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck back, it’s besides introducing his main compression Harley Quinn. Played present by Lady Gaga and going by the sanction “Lee,” she puts immoderate pep successful Arthur’s step, and it looks similar the 2 are going to tear it up astir Gotham City together. According to Gaga, putting a rotation connected Harley meant undergoing a spot of a transformation.

As portion of Empire Magazine’s cover story connected the sequel, the singer-actor explained her prime to downplay her emblematic bombastic and showy presence, peculiarly for the film’s philharmonic sequences. “Lady Gaga … is not what this movie is; I’m playing a character,” she said. “I worked a batch connected the mode that I sang to travel from Lee, and to not travel from maine arsenic a performer.” Whereas Gaga knows however to power her enactment and bushed portion singing, Lee wouldn’t, truthful she had to “remove the technicality” of being a popular star.

It besides meant singing wrong, sometimes: “There’s plentifulness of bum notes from her,” Gaga laughed. Using euphony arsenic hold of dialog was “unlike thing I’ve ever done before.”

The original Joker featured a reworked root communicative for its rubric character, and the aforesaid holds existent with Folie à Deux and Lee. While she’ll inactive autumn for Joker, present she’s a euphony psychiatrist for the inmates of Arkham Asylum alternatively than a psych intern manipulated into loving him.

Director Todd Phillips said elements of Harley person been retained for Lee, but otherwise, “it’s truly [Gaga’s] ain interpretation, and excavation and [writer] Scott Silver’s.” He likened her to women who idolized Charles Manson and different killers down bars, and noted, “We took things astir Harley successful the comics and molded them into the mode we wanted them to beryllium for the movie.”

Joker: Folie à Deux releases successful theaters connected October 4.

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