October’s Clown: Pas de deux Not only does it bring back Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, but it also introduces his main character, Harley Quinn. Played by Lady Gaga as “Lee,” she puts some pep in Arthur’s step, and it looks like the two will tear things up in Gotham City together. According to Gaga, putting a spin on a Harley meant going through some transformations.
As part of Empire magazine’s sequel cover story, the singer-actress explained her choice to tone down her typically over-the-top and bombastic persona, especially in the film’s musical sequences. “Lady Gaga…that’s not what this movie is about; I’m playing a character,” she said. “I worked a lot on the way I sang to adapt to Lee’s style and no Coming from me as a performer. Gaga knows how to control her breath and rhythm when singing, but Lee doesn’t, so she has to “eliminate” the technical aspects of pop stardom.
Sometimes that means singing it wrong: “She has a lot of stray notes,” Gaga says, laughing. Using music as an extension of conversation is “unlike anything I’ve done before.”
original clown This also applies to a redesigned origin story for its protagonist pas de deux And Lee. While she can still fall in love with the Joker, here she’s a musical psychiatrist to the inmates of Arkham Asylum rather than a psychology intern manipulated into falling in love with the Joker.
Director Todd Phillips said the Harley element was retained for Lee, but beyond that, “It’s really [Gaga’s] My own interpretation and my and [writer] By Scott Silver. He likened her to women who idolized Charles Manson and other prison killers, noting: “We took some things about Harley in the comics and molded them into what we wanted to represent in the movie.”
Clown: Pas de deux Opens in theaters on October 4.
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