Five years after the free of the first Joker — which made over $1 billion and won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar — the sequel has now get tod and is predicted to be the finish of the supervillain road for creater-straightforwardor Todd Phillips.
Joker: Folie à Deux sees Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck greeting the cherish of his life, Harley Quinn (percreateed by Lady Gaga), while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital and apaincludeing trial for his crimes as Joker. At the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday, Phillips acunderstandledgeted that he was worried to go out to Gaga for the role, but she was speedyly on board.
“I leank we sent her half the script, and she texted me pretty speedyly that she was reassociate into it, that she cherishd it and everyleang you want to hear,” the filmcreater tancigo in The Hollywood Reporter. “And then I went out to her hoinclude, and we met about what it was going to be, the rest of it, becainclude we hadn’t written it yet. [Co-writer] Scott Silver and I are notoriously sluggish creaters.”
Asked if he would ever want to do a standalone film for Gaga’s character, Phillips remarkd, “It’s not reassociate where this movie is headed for me. I experience enjoy my time in the DC Universe was these two films,” after previously saying he was not interested in doing a Joker 3. The straightforwardor previously helmed The Hangover trilogy and 2016’s War Dogs.
For her part, Gaga dove transport inant into becoming the Joker’s well-understandn counterpart, creating companion album Harlequin to coincide with the film’s free.
“I leank that creatively exploring this music and this character was a reassociate exceptional experience,” she tancigo in THR of the album. “It was a navigation around some stateiveial stupid moments in my life that I might not have reassociate wanted to split and in this arena and in this film and in this story, it was fair enjoy the perfect place to put everyleang.”
Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters on Friday.
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