‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ script was rewritten “very often” in Joaquin Phoenix’s trailer
nme.comJoker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips has revealed that scenes from the film were “very often” re-written in Joaquin Phoenix’s trailer at the last minute.The follow up to 2019’s Joker, which is out in cinemas on October 4, received its premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival this week (September 4), with some of the early reactions hailing it as the “movie of the year”.And now, in an interview with Variety, Phillips has revealed that he, Phoenix and co-star Lady Gaga would often sit in the actor’s trailer on the day of a scene’s filming and tear it apart and write a new one.Confirming a story Gaga had previously told Vanity Fair, Phillips said: “My line about Joaquin is that he’s the tunnel at the end of the light.
You think, ‘Okay, this scene works, let’s just go shoot it.’ And Joaquin’s like, ‘No, no, no, let’s just have a quick meeting about it,’ and it’s three hours later and you’re rewriting it on a napkin.”The director went on to heap praise on Gaga, highlighting her confidence in acting, despite her relative inexperience. “What’s great about Lady Gaga is that she really holds her own, both off camera when we’re in the trailer tearing things apart — which she probably spent the night before learning — but also on camera.
It was not a small feat.”The most recent clip of the film to have been officially shared showed Gaga – who plays Harleen ‘Lee’ Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn, in the film – singing ‘Get Happy’ from the 1950 Judy Garland film Summer Stock alongside Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker.Phillips made the unconventional decision to make the sequel a musical, which Gaga has hailed as “a very big swing”, praising the film’s “audacity and complexity”.In a four-star review of Folie à Deux,.
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