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‘I probably shouldn’t do this again’: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk about ‘difficult’ Joker diets
The stars of Joker: Folie à Deux worked under medical supervision to lose weight for physically demanding sequel, which premieres at the Venice film festival this week
At a press conference alongside the film’s writer-director, Todd Phillips, Phoenix talked about the pre-production regime he revisited, having lost 52lb – a little under 4 stone, or about 24kg – by eating mostly lettuce and steamed vegetables for the original. She praised the film’s “extremely nuanced” approach to music, which sees both leads belt out great American classics when their own words fail them. Phillips dismissed the idea that the sequel was conceived in part as a rebuttal to what he felt were “undeserved” accusations that the original glorified violence.
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