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Joaquin Phoenix Talks Lady Gaga ‘Spitting Up Coffee’ the First Time She Heard Him Sing on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Set

Joaquin Phoenix says Lady Gaga was 'spitting up coffee' the first time she heard him sing on the set of 'Joker: Folie à Deux.'

It was important that they bond that way because director Todd Phillips wanted to bring the music out of the Joker, who at his core is a mercurial, failed comedian whose violent acts land him in Arkham Asylum, where he strikes up a lyrical love story with Gaga’s Harley “Lee” Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn. “This unwilling, unwitting symbol now paying for the crimes of the first film, but at the same time finding the only thing he ever wanted, which was love. “It was important to protect that with poor phrasing and occasional bum notes,” Phoenix said in an echo of a recent interview with Gaga where she admitted to purposely tanking her award-winning voice to get into character.

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