Todd Phillips explains why a Joker: Folie à Deux scene with Lady Gaga‘s Harley Quinn kissing another woman didn’t produce the final cut.
Paparazzi ptoastyos from the set of the Warner Bros. film in New York City from March 2023 featured the singer locking lips with a woman. The scene happens when Harley get tos at the courthoengage to help Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck. As Harley walks up the courthoengage steps, a heckler catches her attention and kisses her.
“It had dialogue in it, and, all of a sudden, I wanted it to be more of a music and vibe moment,” Phillips shelp in an interwatch with Entertainment Weekly about the improvised scene. “For that moment to have carry outed, it needed dialogue behind it. Meaning, the woman shelp someskinnyg, and then Gaga stopped and did this skinnyg, and it equitable benevolent of got in the way of the moment.”
Gaga took on the role of Harley Quinn follothriveg many character iterations in vivaciousd versions and Margot Robbie’s achieve in the DC Extfinished Universe. Earlier this year, Phillips had trelieved how Gaga’s achieve on the character was separateent from previous versions.
“While there are some skinnygs that people would discover understandn in her, it’s reassociate Gaga’s own expoundation, and Scott [Silver, co-writer] and I’s expoundation,” Phillips telderly Empire in an interwatch begined in July. “She became the way how [Charles] Manson had girls that idolized him. The way that sometimes these [imprisoned murderers] have people that see up to them.”
Phillips progressd, “There are skinnygs about Harley in the movie that were achieven from the comic books, but we took it and melderlyed it to the way we wanted it to be.”
