A viral moment of Lady Gaga locking lips with a woman on the set ofJoker: Folie A DeuxThe film didn’t make the final cut — and now, director Todd Phillips is explaining why.
While shooting for the sequel in March 2023, the 38-year-old singer-turned-actress Photo Sharing a lesbian kiss with a female protester. In a deleted scene, Gaga’s character, Lee, a serious version of Harley Quinn, stops while walking up the courthouse stairs and grabs a woman in the crowd and then fatally attacks her.
The photos immediately went viral but were never seen in the film. When asked about the kiss, Phillips explained why he did not include the scene.
“There was dialogue, and, suddenly, I wanted it to be a musical and lively moment. To play that moment, there needed to be dialogue behind it. Meaning, the woman said something, and then Gaga stopped and did this thing, and it just happened in the middle of that moment,” Phillips explained. Entertainment Weekly In an interview posted Monday, October 7.
as post Film critic Johnny Oleksinski shared, “Joker: Folie à Deux” is a musical starring Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix (who played mentally ill Arthur Fleck on trial for murder in the 2019 original).”sing for no reasonwhich he called a “pointless sequel”.
While Phoenix, 49, won a Best Actor Oscar for the original film, which grossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, the sequel is not getting the same response from moviegoers. walking out of the theater in the middle of a movie And they are criticizing the film fiercely on social media.
Gaga reportedly signed on to the project without reading the entire script.
“I think we sent her half the script, and she messaged me very quickly saying she was really interested in it, she loved it and everything you want to hear. And then I went over to her house, and we met about what it was going to be, everything else, because we hadn’t written it yet,” Phillips explained. hollywood reporter,
actress- who is also an oscar winner — spoke about Phillips’ bold “Joker” sequel to Variety in August, admitting it was risky.
“Todd made a huge difference with this whole concept and with the script, giving the sequel Joker This audacity and complexity. Gaga said, “There’s music, there’s dancing, it’s a play, it’s also a courtroom drama, it’s a comedy, it’s happy, it’s sad.” “It’s a testament [Todd] As a director, he would prefer to be creative rather than tell a traditional love story.
However, the numbers are in and they’re not good.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” grossed only $37.8 million in its first weekend, while it was originally projected to gross $70 million. The Phoenix original “Joker” made $39 million on its first Friday in 2019 alone. Reported by Variety,
