harley Quinn is more than a bad guy. He’s an interesting human being. But above all real. This does not mean that it presents aspects that can arouse fear in the viewer. In fact, this is the feeling that awakened in the actress who plays it, Lady Gaga. The actress brings to life in the second film about the “Joker”, the director’s sequel Todd Phillips from the character of the world of Batman, to the new adaptation of Harley Quinn, a character who is frightening because “she provokes someone who has mental problems“, even if “her motivations are not always bad”, declared the American actress and singer in an interview with EFE.
Gaga, 38, puts herself in the shoes of harleycalled ‘Lee’ in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux‘(Folie à deux), which this time becomes a psychological musical comedy focusing on Arthur Fleck/Joker’s (Joaquin Phoenix) relationship with Harley while the two are held at Arkham State Psychiatric Hospital. Arthur, awaiting trial by the murder of several peoplefalls in love with Lee to the point that accept and follow all the explosions of madness What does she have to provoke him, like trying to set fire to the center where they are being held.
Lee is obsessed with another personality of Arthurthat of the immensely popular comedian “Joker”, and she even asks him not to take the drugs prescribed to control his madness so that the clown she admires so much can emerge from him. “She helps the audience really see him. And it’s complicated because We don’t always know what he’s thinking. and we are not always sure of their motivations. She’s really unpredictable and I think it’s a fascinating place,” Lady Gaga told EFE. She admitted that there are facets of Lee that scare her, “one of them is that he is provoke someone who has mental problems and he’s trying to attract the Joker.”
“He’s an interesting human being.”
The director also referenced this sentiment, telling EFE that “the problem Harley has in this movie is that she is in love with the Joker, but is not interested in Arthur.” However, Lady Gaga considers that the character “isn’t just a villain, I think she’s also a interesting human beingthat perhaps their motivations are not always bad and that It makes things more complicated and more real. »
“All his actions are in response to where life has taken her” he added. “I think looking at Arthur and Joker through Lee’s eyes, you realize how important he is in this world and in Todd Phillips’ Gotham City. It helps the audience really see it. And it’s complicated because we don’t always know what he’s thinking and You’re not always sure of their motivations.“, he insisted. “She’s really unpredictable,” pointed out Lady Gaga, who, at the EFE reception in a London hotel, wore clown touches, with heavily painted eyes, a striped sweater and black high heels.
This second Todd film – which premiered in Spain this October 4 – sets an emotional tone to the main character through recognized music and songs – such as those of Frank Sinatra or The Carpenters – and that Lee and the Joker sing in several scenes of the film, which enliven this intensely psychological film. The director acknowledged having contributed to musical connotations after talking about it with Phoenix and with the intention of showing the sentimental side of Arthur, where love should come from. “We thought that if we were going to make another film and he at least knew what love represented in his life, maybe the music that is in him would come out,” Todd told EFE.
Mental health in “Joker”
This director’s film goes beyond presenting the world of “Joker”, but sends a message about how illnesses should be treated mental disorders, the impact on adulthood of the abuse that a person may suffer in childhood (Arthur was the victim of abuse at the hands of his mother) and the consequences for society.
The director “asks everyone to stop for a minute and pay attention to someone who is different and be willing to see, you know, all their qualities, whether they’re surprising, things that can teach us something,” Lady Gaga said. “I think when you stop, you may be able to understand something something in someone (…) that you would have neglected and perhaps ignored”, he underlined.
