Joaquin Phoenix Says ‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Co-Star Lady Gaga Was “Spitting Up Coffee The First Time I Sang”

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Joaquin Phoenix is talking about filming Joker: Folie à Deux and his co-star Lady Gaga‘s reaction when she heard him sing. Phoenix is reprising his role as Arthur Fleck in the Todd Phillips musical sequel about the DC Comics villain, The Joker. “I do seem to remember her spitting up coffee the first time I sang, so that felt good, that was exciting and made me feel confident,” Phoenix jokingly said in an interview with Empire.

Gaga, who joins the sequel in the role of Joker’s love interest Harley Quinn, “was always very encouraging,” Phoenix says, recalling that the singer told him, “Go with what you feel, it’s fine.” “For somebody who’s not a performer in that way, it can be… uncomfortable to do that, but also very exciting,” he added. RELATED: Lady Gaga Speaks After Olympics Ceremony Performance Plagued By Sound Issues And Dancer Falling Off-Stage For the “Bad Romance” singer, playing a character in a musical, she had to harmonize differently than when she usually performs. “People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right?

That’s me as that performer, but that is not what this movie is; I’m playing a character,” she told the publication. “So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee, and to not come from me as a performer.” RELATED: Lady Gaga Pre-Recorded Her Olympic Opening Ceremony Performance “For Safety Reasons” Joker: Folie à Deux’s cast also includes Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson, and Zazie Beetz.

The film is part of DC Elseworlds and is not part of the universe that Peter Safran and James Gunn have been building since taking the helm of DC Studios.