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Thursday, September 5, 2024

‘I probably shouldn’t do this again’ / Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk about ‘difficult’ Joker diets

Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in Jocker Folie a Deux

‘I probably shouldn’t do this again’: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk about ‘difficult’ Joker diets

The stars of Joker: Folie à Deux worked under medical supervision to lose weight for physically demanding sequel, which premieres at the Venice film festival this week

Catherine Shoard

Wednesday 4 September 2024

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga discussed the punishing diets each undertook for the Joker sequel, ahead of the film’s premiere at the Venice film festival.

Venice film festival 2024

Review

Joker: Folie à Deux review – Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical spirals out of tune

There’s a great supporting cast and a barnstorming first act but Todd Phillips’s much-hyped Gotham sequel proves claustrophobic and repetitive

Peter Bradshaw

Wednesday 4 September 2014

Five years ago, Todd Phillips released his much-acclaimed take on the DC Comics supervillain, Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix wearing the clown makeup as the bananas Pagliacci Arthur Fleck in an odd pastiche Scorsese thriller with Joker as both Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin – and granted the unearned honour of killing a character played by Robert De Niro.