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Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix Sang Live on ‘Joker 2’ Set, Which Made It a ‘Nightmare’ to Edit: ‘We Didn’t Want Perfect Notes’
Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips discuss the elaborate lengths they went to while shooting the musical sequences for 'Joker 2'
“It was important to me that we never perform the songs as one typically does in a musical,” Phoenix told Variety for a cover story on his “Joker: Folie à Deux” director Todd Phillips. In the follow-up, Phoenix once again plays Arthur Fleck, an aspiring stand-up comic who is in the psych ward after murdering a talk show host (Robert De Niro) on live television while dressed as a clown. Arthur’s shocking act of violence has inspired a wave of followers, including a fellow patient, Harleen “Lee” Quinzell (Gaga), better known in the comics as Harley Quinn.
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