Lady Gaga Speaks Out on ‘Joker 2’ Bad Reviews: ‘You Keep Going Even if Something Didn’t Connect in the Way You Intended’

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Jordan Moreau Lady Gaga is finally weighing in on the negative reviews that her latest film “Joker: Folie à Deux” received after it opened last fall. “Joker” (2019) was a critical and box office success that made more than $1 billion and won two Academy Awards.

The sequel, however, was a drastic departure from the original. It added Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, the love interest to Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, as well as several musical numbers, after the first movie was praised as a dark thriller and an original take on the Batman villain’s origin story. “Folie à Deux” only grossed a little more than $200 million at the box office and, suffice to say, did not receive any Oscar nominations (in fact, it’s up for seven Razzies).

Speaking to Elle magazine in a new interview published Tuesday, Gaga broke her silence on “Joker: Folie à Deux’s” negative reviews. “People just sometimes don’t like some things,” Gaga said. “It’s that simple.

And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going even if something didn’t connect in the way that you intended.” She added that the fear of failing is what can be most harmful to a person. “When that makes its way into your life, that can be hard to get control of.