Harley has heard the critics on “Joker 2.”
Woman Gaga addressed how the 2024 DC sequel utterly flopped in a brand new interview with Elle.
“Folks simply typically don’t like some issues. It’s that easy,” Gaga, 38, stated within the cowl story, printed Tuesday.
“And I believe to be an artist, it’s important to be keen for individuals to typically not prefer it,” she defined. “And you retain going even when one thing didn’t join in the way in which that you simply meant.”
The “Home of Gucci” star famous that when the worry of failure “makes its manner into your life, that may be laborious to get management of. It’s a part of the mayhem.”
Gaga performed Harley Quinn within the sequel to Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” film.
Whereas 2019’s “Joker” was an enormous success, grossing over $1 billion and profitable Phoenix, 50, the Academy Award for Greatest Actor, director Todd Phillips’ follow-up had a really completely different end result.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” was bashed by followers upon its launch in Oct. 2024, and lots of viewers members even walked out of the theaters in the course of the film.
It grossed solely $207 million worldwide on an estimated $200 million price range. In accordance with Selection, the movie misplaced Warner Bros. between $150 million and $200 million in its theatrical run.
Critics had detrimental reactions to “Joker 2,” as effectively. The sequel has a 31% critics and viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the unique has a 68% critics rating and an 88% viewers rating.
The Publish’s film critic Johnny Oleksinski known as the sequel “pointless” in his evaluation, and stated the musical numbers have been “frightfully awkward and don’t add something significant or worthwhile.”
Tim Dillon, who had a short position in “Joker 2” as a guard at Arkham Asylum, stated it was the “worst movie ever made” on Joe Rogan’s podcast in November.
“We’d sit there, me and these different guys have been all wearing these safety outfits as a result of we’re working on the Arkham Asylum, and I might flip to certainly one of them and we’d hear this crap and I’d go, ‘What the f— is that this?’ ” the comic shared. “They usually’d go, ‘That is going to bomb, man.’ I am going, ‘That is the worst factor I’ve ever seen.’”
Dillon additionally known as out the sequel — which follows Phoenix’s Athur Fleck/Joker falling in love with Gaga’s Harley Quinn at Arkham — for having “no plot.”
Earlier than “Joker 2” got here out, Gaga emphasised that her portrayal of Harley Quinn was very a lot her personal.
“You understand, my model of Harley is mine and it’s very genuine to this film and these characters,” she informed Entry Hollywood final yr. “I’ve by no means finished something like I’ve finished on this film earlier than, so it’s all going to be utterly model new and actually enjoyable.”
Margot Robbie beforehand took on the character within the DC movies Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020), and The Suicide Squad (2021).