JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Poster Released As Lady Gaga Details Her Approach To Playing Harley Quinn

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Poster Released As Lady Gaga Details Her Approach To Playing Harley Quinn

A new poster for Joker: Folie à Deux has been released which highlights the DC sequel's twisted leads. Lady Gaga has also talked more about how she approached bringing Harley Quinn to life on screen...

By JoshWilding - Sep 06, 2024 03:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Joker
Source: Vogue

Lady Gaga may have only a handful of acting credits to her name, but she's already proven herself a huge talent in front of the camera. Next up for the Oscar-winner is Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips' DC movie which will see her transform into Lee Quinzel, a.k.a. Harley Quinn. 

Talking to Vogue about how she approached the iconic character, Gaga said, "Harley Quinn is a character people know from the ether of pop culture. I had a different experience creating her, namely my experience with mania and chaos inside - for me, it creates a quietness."

"Sometimes women are labeled as these overly emotional creatures and when we are overwhelmed we are erratic or unhinged," the singer continued. "But I wonder if when things become so broken from reality, when we get pushed too far in life, what if it makes you...quiet?"

Gaga added, "I would say that I worked from a sense-memory perspective: What does it feel like to walk through the world and be...braced, in an intense way. And what happens when you cover up all of the complexities beneath the surface?"

It certainly sounds like an interesting approach to the character and, based on recent comments from filmmaker Todd Phillips, Gaga won't be heading down the same route as Margot Robbie or what we saw in Batman: The Animated Series

For many fans, that's a disappointment; however, it was arguably to be expected given what we saw from Arthur Fleck in 2019's Joker

A new poster for Joker: Folie à Deux has also been released which you can check out below.

Joker: Folie À Deux finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

The sequel stars Joaquin Phoenix once again in his Oscar-winning dual role as Arthur Fleck/Joker, opposite Oscar-winner Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born). The movie also features Oscar nominees Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Catherine Keener (Get Out), alongside Zazie Beetz, reprising her role from Joker.

Phillips, who was nominated for Oscars for directing, writing and producing Joker, directed Joker: Folie À Deux from a screenplay by fellow Oscar nominee Scott Silver & Phillips, based on characters from DC. This follow-up was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner. Lady Gaga served as music consultant.

Joker: Folie À Deux arrives in theaters on October 4.

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Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/6/2024, 4:08 PM
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Sometimes...this genre gives up more than just another movie. Sometimes we get art.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/6/2024, 4:10 PM
@Nomis929 - and sometimes we get pretension.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/6/2024, 4:15 PM
@ObserverIO - If this is being pretentious..I'll take it.

You can't run a porche' on regular. ;)
CaptainTriip
CaptainTriip - 9/6/2024, 4:20 PM
@Nomis929 - Nailed it. Gonna steal that “porche’” line 🤘
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/6/2024, 4:29 PM
@Nomis929 - tbf we have had a lot of genuine cinematic artists in cbms. Tim Burton, Bryan Singer, Sam Raimi, Guillermo Del Toro, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, James Gunn, etc.

And then there are posers like Todd Phillips.

Speaking of Tim Burton, I just saw Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and there are some similarities to the upcoming Joker 2. There's singing and dancing, member berries galore, a flimsy script and both are unnecessary sequels. But at least it's Tim Burton, y'know? An unpretentious legendary auteur.

You know what part of Beetlejuice 2 reminded me of Todd Phillips the most? (And I'm talking Joker Todd Phillips, not Hangover/Old Skool/Road Trip Todd Phillips)
Delia Deetz.

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Delia Deetz is a perfect commentary on people like this. Especially in the new film.
folieaturd
folieaturd - 9/6/2024, 4:33 PM
@Nomis929 - And sometimes we get a turd
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/6/2024, 4:35 PM
@Nomis929 - 100% man. This is comicbook characters in their raw and most artistic form.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/6/2024, 4:36 PM
@ObserverIO - booooo.
I love ya tho! 😃🤡💜
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/6/2024, 4:41 PM
@ObserverIO - comicbook movie artists? Sure. They all fit that mold.

JOKER/2? A very raw, not seen before style of art in the genre.

Oh, and please don't call 'The Batman's the same thing. That film was one long, pretentious, boring film that took itself way too dang serious. Ugh.....
What a drab film. Nothing original about it.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/6/2024, 4:42 PM
@Erik - considering your profile pic I understand why you expect turds.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/6/2024, 4:59 PM
@Erik - Exactly. Sometiemes these movies are a turd.

Case in point...

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Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/6/2024, 5:00 PM
@ObserverIO - I'd take Todd Phillips over James Gunn anyday.

in comedies or comic book movies.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 9/6/2024, 5:19 PM
@Nomis929 - can you elaborate a bit on what makes it art? Have you seen the film?
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/6/2024, 6:22 PM
@Itwasme - No. But from what was established in the first film and the conscious use of skill and creative imagination in the production of aesthetic objects is what makes it art to me.
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 9/6/2024, 6:37 PM
@ObserverIO - 'james gunn' lmao 😅
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/6/2024, 6:49 PM
@TheClungerine - Say it. Say that you think Todd Phillips is an auteur and James Gunn isn't, lol, I need to hear you say it!
TheClungerine
TheClungerine - 9/6/2024, 6:59 PM
@ObserverIO - I'm not in love with Todd's work but his joker was far better than anything Gunn has done imo
dagenspear
dagenspear - 9/6/2024, 8:48 PM
@ObserverIO - Ah yes nothing screams art like Catwoman eating a live bird and Penguin eating raw fish, and making that parasol seeming, to me, sex joke. Visuals? Maybe. But I think of Burton's work as more posing for the edginess than the Joker movie.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 9/6/2024, 8:49 PM
@lazlodaytona - How was it particularly pretentious or boring?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/7/2024, 4:01 AM
"Todd Phillips' Joker was far better than anything Gunn has done." - TheClungerine

sure. You guys wouldn't know real cinema if you were sat in a packed theater watching it for the 3rd time eating popcorn and having a great time with it.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/7/2024, 4:05 AM
Any one of the GOTG films is far beyond what Phillips achieved with Joker.

But because they're so dissimilar, how about comparing it to Super? He did what Phillips was trying to do but with actual character work, an actual script and artistic meaning. And without the self-important posturing.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/6/2024, 4:42 PM
Interesting…

Given the bits & pieces we have seen of Gaga as this version of Harley , she does have this stillness or quietness to her in which she almost feels resigned to her circumstances and a reserveness that is uncommon for the character.

Also , given the “Manson Girl” influence on this take that she seems to be Arthur’s enabler or perhaps might even be manipulating him for her own ends.

As of now , it does remind me to an extent of the recent Caped Crusader iteration of Harley aswell as the Telltale one where the dynamic between her & Joker was flipped.

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lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/6/2024, 4:46 PM
I am so very ready for this. Never been a Ga-Ga fan but the more I see of her in this I love her that much more.

Margot's Quinn is over the top out there which is what it should be.
But this JOKER and Quinn are comicbook names put on the most grounded, simplistic world of a movie that is not a part of the comicbook genre.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 9/6/2024, 6:40 PM
Nothing I've seen from this movie does anything for me, but I also felt the same way about the first one and liked it alright. Guess we'll see.

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