{"id":117999,"date":"2024-07-08T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/08\/joker-folie-a-deux-casting-director-surprised-lady-gaga-could-keep-up-with-joaquin-phoenix\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:10:44","slug":"joker-folie-a-deux-casting-director-surprised-lady-gaga-could-keep-up-with-joaquin-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/08\/joker-folie-a-deux-casting-director-surprised-lady-gaga-could-keep-up-with-joaquin-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Joker: Folie \u00c0 Deux&#8217; casting director surprised Lady Gaga could &#8220;keep up&#8221; with Joaquin Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-08\/E_JokerFolieaDeuxposter_040224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The casting director for<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=7258396057606719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=7258396057606719\"><em>Joker: Folie \u00c0 Deux<\/em><\/a>\u00a0says it wasn&#8217;t her idea to put<strong> Lady Gaga <\/strong>in the film, but now she sees why director <strong>Todd Phillips<\/strong> chose her for the role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/07\/casting-director-francine-maisler-joker-folie-a-deux-lady-gaga-austin-butler-sarah-snook-1236002327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/07\/casting-director-francine-maisler-joker-folie-a-deux-lady-gaga-austin-butler-sarah-snook-1236002327\/\">According to <em>Deadline<\/em><\/a>, while speaking at a film festival in the Czech Republic, <strong>Francine Maisler<\/strong> said she&#8217;d recently seen a cut of the film and raved about Gaga&#8217;s performance. &#8220;She\u2019s so good in it, you guys.\u00a0 She\u2019s going to blow your mind,&#8221; Maisler told the crowd. &#8220;I didn\u2019t suggest Lady Gaga. It wasn\u2019t my idea. That was Todd Phillips, before me. But I will tell you, she\u2019s really surprising \u2014 and really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maisler went on to say that she was &#8220;really surprised&#8221; that Gaga was able to hold her own against the movie&#8217;s Oscar-winning star, <strong>Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, we all knew what she could do in\u00a0<em>A Star Is Born<\/em>, but I thought, \u2018Oh, well, that\u2019s kind of in her wheelhouse.\u2019 Something she could do and just be real. But this\u2026 Man, she\u2019s\u00a0<em>good,<\/em>&#8221; Maisler said. &#8220;Joaquin blows your mind, but that she could keep up with him, and be real \u2014 and not just wiped off the screen by what that role is and what the performance is \u2014 shows she\u2019s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Joker: Folie \u00c0 Deux <\/em>is set to hit theaters on October 4, and it is rumored to be debuting at the Venice Film Festival in August. It&#8217;s also said to contain numerous musical numbers: According to one report, Gaga recorded over 20 songs for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Pictures The casting director for Joker: Folie \u00c0 Deux\u00a0says it wasn&#8217;t her idea to put Lady Gaga in the film, but now she sees why director Todd Phillips chose her for the role. According to Deadline, while speaking at a film festival in the Czech Republic, Francine Maisler<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/08\/joker-folie-a-deux-casting-director-surprised-lady-gaga-could-keep-up-with-joaquin-phoenix\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}