Lady Gaga clearly brought her method acting skills to the set of Joker 2 . In a recent podcast interview, Joker: Pas de Deux cinematographer Laurence Schell revealed that the star asked to be called "Lee" while filming the long-awaited Joker sequel, and she was apparently not happy about it. A bit so involved that she would barely speak to Schell before he spoke. She is correct.
"I don't know Stephanie at all," he said, calling Gaga by her birth name, Stephanie Germanotta. "The weird thing is, I feel like I've never even met her, not even during makeup and hair testing... And then I remember there was a week where, oh my God, I felt like we were disconnecting. Not even connecting. We were like Opposites. I would say to my team, 'Oh my God, I can't hack it. Either she hates me or we hate each other. I'll say almost nothing.' Stephanie, this is your second team', like the little things."
At one point, the assistant director gave him a hint and told him that Gaga preferred to be called Lee on set. “I was like, oh, 100 percent,” he said. "The next thing I said was 'Lee,' and it was like everything changed. From that point on, she was like...our whole relationship changed. I was like, OK, cool."
It's unclear why Gaga wanted to be called Lee while filming Joker 2 , but it's likely a short nickname for her character, Harley Quinn. The sequel will be a musical film centered around Harley's relationship with the Joker, who will once again be played by Joaquin Phoenix, who won the 2020 Best Actor Oscar for playing the famous villain. However, other plot details of the film have been kept under wraps.
While promoting her 2021 film House of Gucci , Gaga, who is becoming popular for her acting prowess, told British Vogue that she has been playing the character Patrizia Reggiani for a year and a half. It even got to the point where Gaga thought the real Patrizia Reggiani cursed her with flies before filming ended. "On the last day of filming, I was on the balcony of my apartment in Rome, singing Dean Martin's 'Mambo Italiano' at the top of my lungs, with a cigarette dangling from my mouth. I'm Patrizia," she told W magazine . "There were swarms of flies following me around, and I started to really believe it was her. I was ready to let her go." It's heartening to know that Gaga is keeping the camp alive on set.
