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Lady Gaga is apparently all-in when it comes to her performance as Harley Quinn in the upcoming sequel to 2019’s Joker.
According to Lawrence Sher, the film’s cinematographer, Gaga is going a bit method when it comes to playing Harley Quinn as she apparently didn’t open up to him until he started to call her “Lee”, which is obviously short for Harley.
“I didn’t know Stefani at all. Strangely, I felt like I never even met her, even during the makeup/hair tests. Because again, maybe it was my philosophy of not trying to get in their space. And then I remember for a week, being like, god, I feel like we are disconnecting. Not even connecting. We are like on opposite,” cinematographer Lawrence Sher said during a recent interview.
“And I would say to my crew, ‘Jesus, I can’t, like, crack it. She either hates me or we hate each other. There’s something weird going on here.’ I barely said anything, except I would say, ‘Stefani, this is where your second team was, minor little things,’ and then the AD at one point said, ‘Oh you know, Stef would like if you just called her Lee on set.’ And I was like, oh, 100 percent, and I literally said, the next thing I said, was something ‘Lee,’ and it was like everything changed. From that point on, it was like she was… our whole connection changed. I was like, alright, cool.”
“Joker: Folie à Deux” director of photography Lawrence Sher says Lady Gaga opted to be called “Lee” on set. pic.twitter.com/Rv32mOHBrY
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In addition to Gaga — in her third feature film role following A Star Is Born and House of Gucci — and Joaquin Phoenix reprising his Academy Award-winning role of Joker, Joker: Folie à Deux also stars Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, and Harry Lawtey.
Joker: Folie à Deux is currently scheduled to hit movie theaters in the United States on Friday, October 4, 2024.