Lady Gaga Opens Up About Negative “Joker: Folie à Deux” Reviews

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Lady Gaga’s performance as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux wasn’t exactly what she thought it would be. The 2019 original Joker film was a success, earning two Oscars. However, the sequel version wove in a musical element and received no Oscar nods this time around, as the film was critically panned.

In a new cover story with Elle, Gaga opened up for the first time about the negative response to the movie.

“People just sometimes don’t like some things,” Gaga said. “It’s that simple. And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going even if something didn’t connect in the way that you intended.”

“When that makes its way into your life, that can be hard to get control of. It’s part of the mayhem,” she added.

Meanwhile, Gaga’s co-star, Tim Dillon (who played a security guard at Arkham Asylum), had a different view of the movie.

“It has no plot,” Dillon said (via Variety). “We would sit there, me and these other guys were all dressed in these security outfits because we’re working at the Arkham Asylum, and I would turn to one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the fuck is this?’ And they’d go, ‘This is going to bomb, man.’ I go, ‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.’ We were talking about it at lunch, and we’d go, ‘What is the plot? Is there a plot? I don’t know, I think he falls in love with her in the prison?’ It’s not even hate-watchable. That’s how terrible it is.”

Joker: Folie à Deux only grossed $207 million globally compared to the original’s $1 billion, according to Box Office Mojo, and is currently nominated for seven Razzie Awards. It also holds a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.


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