the upcoming movie Joker: Folie à Deux filming finished in April 2023, but undoubtedly many anecdotes remain to be remembered, for example, that the cinematographer Lawrence Sher he thought Lady Gaga had animosity towards him.
Sher had just worked with director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix on joker (2019), a film that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. For the sequel, the collaborative group was joined Lady Gaga —stage name of the famous actress and singer Stefani Germanotta— with whom at first it was impossible to get along, according to the camera manager.
“I didn’t know Stefani at all,” Sher commented in a recent interview (via indiewire). “Weirdly, I felt like I had never met her, not even during makeup and hair tests. Maybe it was my philosophy of not trying to get into her space ».
As the days of filming passed, the mutual treatment between Gaga and the cinematographer remained cold, without the latter being able to understand what happened so that their working relationship began on the wrong foot:
“I remember for a week I was like, ‘God, I feel like we’re getting disconnected. Or we don’t even connect. We’re kind of on opposite sides.’ And he’d say to my team, ‘Jesus, I can’t figure it out. Either she hates me or we hate each other. Something weird is going on here.’”
However, he eventually understood what was happening. Lady Gaga had brought her peculiar method acting to Joker: Folie à Deux; a method that in the gucci house (2021) required him to adopt his character’s Italian accent and mannerisms off-set. And in the case of the movie about Gotham’s criminal clown, what the actor was asking for was to be called “Lee,” not “Stefani” or anything else.
«At one point, the assistant director said to me: ‘You know? Stef would like you to just call her Lee on set.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, one hundred percent,'” Sher concluded. “That’s how everything changed. From that moment on, our entire connection changed.”
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Regarding the meaning of “Lee”, a safe guess is that it consists of a shorthand for Harley Quinn, who is the character played by Gaga in the future sequel to the Arthur Fleck / Joker story, in a version that presumably poses a different origin story than the one dictated by the Batman canon.
Joker: Folie à Deux It is scheduled to hit theaters on October 4, 2024. In addition to Phoenix and Gaga, the cast includes Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland and Harry Lawtey,
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.