‘I Found Her To Be Without Ego and Had Such Fierce Determination,’ Joaquin Phoenix Says of Costar Lady Gaga in the ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Featurette

“Joker: Folie à Deux” opens in Philippine cinemas October 2(Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn/Lee in “Joker: Folie à Deux” / Photo credit: Niko Tavernise / Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Ent. Inc. All rights reserved.)

Mayhem’s perfect match.

In “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the highly anticipated sequel to the Academy Award-winning “Joker,” Lady Gaga plays Harley Quinn. “I got to see the original ‘Joker’ before it ever came out,” says Lady Gaga in a new Harley Quinn-focused featurette. “It was a very special experience. I had never seen a world created like that before.”

On why Lady Gaga, director Todd Phillips said at CinemaCon in April, “We cast Gaga because she’s magic. I was a producer on ‘A Star Is Born’… That was the first time I really met her and got to watch her work.” And in the featurette, Phillips talks more about working with the music icon. “She easily slipped into that role,” says Phillips, who also directed the first film. “It’s not like she’s trying to be Harley Quinn from the comic books. She’s Lee in this world.”

Adds Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Joker / Arthur Fleck, of his costar: “I found her to be without ego and had such a fierce determination to get right in with us. She understood that there had to be a rawness to the character.”

“It brought all of that rough and tough energy and how big these dreams were and how far they would fall,” says Lady Gaga about playing Harley Quinn. Ahead of the movie’s opening in cinemas, the Grammy-winning artist got fans even more excited about her turn as the iconic character by releasing “Harlequin,” a companion album to “Joker: Folie à Deux,” featuring 13 songs.

“Joker: Folie à Deux,” distributed in the Philippines by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Discovery company, opens only in cinemas October 2. Tickets are now available. Click here #JokerMovie

Watch the “My Name is Lee” featurette here: