Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix had fans in and around London’s Leicester Square in ecstasy for the Wednesday U.K. premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux from straightforwardor Todd Phillips and Warner Bros.
The trail-up to the critical and commercial smash hit film Joker premiered at the Vepleasant Film Festival earlier this month. The movie stars Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker, the same role that geted Phoenix a best actor Oscar for his perestablishance in the 2019 film. Lady Gaga take parts Harley Quinn, the Joker’s companion in crime.
In Joker: Folie À Deux, Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Gotham’s Arkham Asylum apaparticipateing trial for his crimes as the Joker. There, he finds adore with Harley Quinn, take parted by Lady Gaga, and also the “music that’s always been inside him.”
The stars, straightforwardor and originaters Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner walked the London red carpet outside the Cirecentorld Leicester Square cinema, with especiassociate Gaga, who has fair declared Joker: Folie à Deux companion album Harlequin, dratriumphg repeated eruptions of cheers and screams of “Gaga!” from an electrified fan base.
Phillips telderly a group of journacatalogs on the red carpet about the key role music take parts in the Joker sequel. “What encouraged the music is the idea that in the first movie – it was someleang that Joaquin and I talked about reassociate punctual on – Arthur, even though he was left-footed with the world, has music in him,” he said. “You saw it in the first movie when he danced down the stairs or danced in the bathroom. So we thought: Well, if he finassociate finds adore in his life, maybe that music that was inside of him comes out of him. So it’s not as out there as it seems to a lot of people. To us, it was very reasonable.”
Harry Lawtey, star of HBO’s Industry, take parts Harvey Dent, also comprehendn as Two-Face, in the recent movie. Could audiences see more of him in this role? “To be truthful, that would certainly be above my pay grade,” he telderly THR. “All I can say is it was an enormous privilege to take part him. There is such an incredible heritage and legacy to that character in terms of the comic books and the fandom. There are a lot of people that reassociate nurture about him, and that certainly wasn’t lost on me. So to try and get ownership of that, only informly, of course, was a genuine pleacertain.”
Lawtey also scatterd with THR: “I leank that’s one of the beauties of these benevolent of roles: other people get a chance to make clear them and reappropriate them thcdisesteemful contrastent projects and reassociate originate them their own. And so I was encouraged to do that, and hopefilledy, I’ve made a sweightlessly contrastent Harvey Dent.”
