Lady Gaga Says There’s A ‘Simple’ Reason ‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Flopped
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The singer is breaking her silence on why she believes the 2024 film was a critical and commercial failure.
Lady Gaga is breaking her silence on the debacle of “Joker: Folie à Deux” months after the film bombed terribly among critics and at the box office.
“People just sometimes don’t like some things,” the actor, 38, told Elle in an interview published Tuesday. “It’s that simple. And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going even if something didn’t connect in the way that you intended.”
She added that when a fear of failure “makes its way into your life, that can be hard to get control of. It’s part of the mayhem.”
Gaga starred as Lee Quinzel (aka Harley Quinn) opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (aka Joker) in Todd Phillips’ 2024 film, a sequel to the 2019 original, which was nominated for 11 Oscars and won two. The sequel, in sharp contrast, was dragged through the mud on Rotten Tomatoes, earning a measly 31% score.
Commercially, “Joker” and “Folie à Deux” also met very different fates, with the first movie proving a box-office smash and the second underperforming badly.
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