{"id":127990,"date":"2024-09-05T05:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/venice-film-festival-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-todd-phillips-at-joker-folie-a-deux-premiere\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T05:43:06","slug":"venice-film-festival-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-todd-phillips-at-joker-folie-a-deux-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/venice-film-festival-joaquin-phoenix-lady-gaga-todd-phillips-at-joker-folie-a-deux-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Todd Phillips At Joker: Folie a Deux Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A dark and music-filled Joker<\/i> sequel brought Lady Gaga to Venice on Wednesday, playing the star-crossed love interest of the DC Comics-inspired anti-hero in one of the year’s most anticipated films. The megastar was the main attraction at the world premiere of Joker: Folie a Deux<\/i> at the Venice Film Festival, one of 21 films vying for the top Golden Lion prize at the prestigious competition.<\/p>\n

Todd Phillips’s 2019 film starring Joaquin Phoenix subverted the codes of superhero films in a disturbing commentary on alienation in American society, with the film going on to win at Venice that year and handing a Best Actor Academy Award to Phoenix.<\/p>\n

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On the red carpet, Lady Gaga drew screams from fans, where she showed off an elaborate mask that suggested two pointy Batman ears draped with a swathe of Venetian lace, paired with a black velvet gown with a generous taffeta skirt.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Wednesday’s premiere, the pop star and actress confessed to having been “deeply moved” by the original film, in which an ignored, mocked and mentally ill stand-up comic, Arthur Fleck (Phoenix), is driven to violence.<\/p>\n

“The first film really deeply moved me, I loved it so much,” Lady Gaga told a press conference, calling Phoenix’s performance one that “set the bar extremely high.”<\/p>\n

“I think sometimes when stories are told about people that are maybe misunderstood by society, the director gives you a chance… to really take a hard look at that world in a deeper way,” Lady Gaga said.<\/p>\n

“I felt like when I watched the first film I got to understand something I may not have seen before, that’s why I did this movie.”<\/p>\n

The sequel heavily relies on musical numbers to express the inner feelings of Fleck, in dark, brooding renditions of classics such as Get Happy<\/i> or For Once in my Life<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Phoenix told journalists how he “had this dream that I was performing as Joker doing songs and I just called Todd because I thought there might be something there.”<\/p>\n

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That idea took flight, and Lady Gaga was the next piece of the puzzle, Todd Phillips said. Both actors sang live on set, Phoenix said, an element that created a “necessary” energy.<\/p>\n

“Early on she was like ‘Oh, we’re going to sing live’ and I was like ‘No, we’re not. You can sing live if you like.’ And ultimately we did it and it was really the only way,” Phoenix told journalists.<\/p>\n

The film’s music was a vehicle to “give characters way to express what they need to say,” Lady Gaga said.<\/p>\n

“We worked really hard on the way that we sang. For me it was a lot about unlearning technique and forgetting how to breathe, allowing the song to completely come out of the character,” she said.<\/p>\n

Lady Gaga later announced on Instagram that the first single on her next album called LG7<\/i> would be released in October.<\/p>\n

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High expectations<\/p>\n

In her return to the big screen after 2021’s House of Gucci<\/i>, Lady Gaga plays Harley Quinn, the partner in crime and love interest of the Joker, with whom she becomes obsessed as he awaits trial for his murder spree.<\/p>\n

The film – loosely based on the DC Comics characters and set in a gritty Gotham City – was wildly successful, grossing $1 billion at the box office but sparking criticism for its nihilistic violence.<\/p>\n

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Todd Phillips said he was happy to return to Venice, but “a little more nervous” this time around.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a lot easier to come in to something as the insurgent as opposed to coming in as the incumbent,” he said. “There’s a lot more expectations on a second film so there’s definitely a sense of more nervousness than I had with the first one.”<\/p>\n

In co-writing the screenplay with Scott Silver, Phillips said he knew it would have to be as daring as the original in order for Phoenix to sign on again.<\/p>\n

“If we really were going to do it, it had to scare him in the same way the first one did. It had to feel audacious,” he said.<\/p>\n

This year’s festival has been awash in Hollywood pizzazz, with a long roster of A-listers taking a twirl on the red carpet, from Daniel Craig and Angelina Jolie to Nicole Kidman and Michael Keaton.<\/p>\n

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