Director Todd Phillips wished his 644,000 Instagram a Merry Christmas by sharing two promotional images from Joker: Folie à Deux, featuring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix.


In one shot from the highly-anticipated comic book film, the superstar, 37, who plays Harley Quinn, could be seen gazing adoringly at the 49-year-old Oscar Winner. 

While the actor was rocking his signature Joker makeup and red suit, the Grammy winner appeared to be portraying Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a promising psychologist that falls in love with the Joker during her internship at Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, in the scene.


'Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a beautiful new year. Oct 2024,' Phillips, 53, captioned the slideshow. 




Sneak peek: Director Todd Phillips wished his 644,000 Instagram a Merry Christmas by sharing two promotional images from Joker 2, featuring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix

The second photo showed Phoenix looking downcast in a jail cell by himself. 

At this time, little is known about Joker: Folie à Deux, which is a follow-up to Phillips' Oscar-winning film, Joker, released theatrically on October 4, 2019. 

The upcoming sequel is scheduled to be released exactly five years after its predecessor hit theatres.

Phoenix will be returning as the titular villain, while Lady Gaga has joined the cast as the crazed Harley Quinn.

Gaga reportedly employed a rather interesting technique on the set of the film as she threw herself into character as the villainess.

Cinematographer Larry Sher revealed on The Trenches TV podcast that, on the set, Gaga wanted to be called, 'Lee.'

Sher also served as the cinematographer on the 2019 Joker movie that landed Phoenix his Best Actor Oscar, confirming that he was, '100% in character all the time.'

He added that on the second day of filming, Phoenix approached him and apologized, 'for being whatever like weird, I just need to stay (in character).'




The second photo showed Phoenix looking downcast in a jail cell by himself

Sher said that he told him not to worry about it at all and, 'just do your thing,' but with Stefani, he had never met her before the project and it was quite different. 

'I feel like I never really even met her, even during the makeup hair test,' Sher began on the podcast.

'Because, again, maybe it's my philosophy of never trying to get in their space,' Sher clarified.

'And then I remember for like a week being like, "God I feel like we were disconnecting, not even connecting. We're like on opposites,"' Sher said.

'And I would say to my crew like, "Jesus I can't crack it. I feel like she either hates me or we hate each other or there's something weird going on here,"' Sher admitted.

The cinematographer added he would barely say anything to her except for, 'minor little things,' when he was clued in that she wanted to be called a different name.

'Then the AD (assistant director) at one point said, "Oh you know Stef would like if you just called her Lee on set,"' Sher explained.

'And I was like, _Oh, 100%.' And then I literally said like the next thing I said was something Lee, and it was like everything changes."




Coming next year: At this time, little is known about Joker: Folie à Deux, which is a follow-up to Phillips' Oscar-winning film, Joker, released theatrically on October 4, 2019 





Star-studded cast: Phoenix will be returning as the titular villain, while Lady Gaga has joined the cast as the crazed Harley Quinn (seen in April 2023)

'From that point on it was like our whole connection changed. I was like, OK cool, that's all I needed to know.

He added that throughout the rest of the movie, their connection, 'just grew over the movie and by the end I think we felt connected in the sense of like we've done this thing together that was joyous and fulfilling.'

Very little is known about the story, though it was revealed at the end of 2019's Joker that Arthur Fleck/Joker has landed in Arkham Asylum, which is where psychiatrist Harleen Frances Quinzel first meets Joker in her comic book origin story.

Quinn is assigned to treat Joker but instead she falls in love with him and is turned into his villainous accomplice and transformed into Harley Quinn.


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