- - Lady Gaga Reveals Her Reaction to “Joker: Folie à Deux”'s 'Unhinged' Bad Reviews: 'I Started Laughing'

Tommy McArdleNovember 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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Lady Gaga said in a new interview that she found the negative reactions to last year's Joker: Folie à Deux funny "because it was just getting so unhinged"

"I’m almost nervous to share my reaction, but the truth is, when it first started happening, I started laughing," she said

Folie à Deux, a sequel to the 2019 movie Joker, bombed at the box office and received negative reviews from movie critics and audiences

More than a year after Joker: Folie à Deux hit theaters, Lady Gaga is sharing more thoughts on the negative reaction the film received from critics and fans alike.

"There was a ton of negativity around Joker,” Gaga, 39, said when she spoke with Rolling Stone for a cover story published on Thursday, Nov. 13. “And I think I was feeling artistically rebellious at the time.”

Gaga costarred with Joaquin Phoenix in the sequel to 2019's Joker. Unlike the first movie, for which Phoenix, 51, won his first Academy Award, Folie à Deux saw disappointing box office results and received a D rating from CinemaScore, which polls moviegoers after seeing a movie to aggregate reactions. (The first Joker movie received a B+ from CinemaScore.)

“I wasn’t, like, unfazed. It’s funny, I’m almost nervous to share my reaction," Gaga told the outlet when asked whether the negative reviews that poured in for Folie à Deux bothered her. "But the truth is, when it first started happening, I started laughing. Because it was just getting so unhinged.”

“When it takes a while for something to kind of dissipate, that can be a little bit more painful," she added. "Only because I put a lot of myself into it.”

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Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in Joker: Folie à Deux

Folie à Deux followed the events of 2019's Joker by following up on Arthur Fleck's (Phoenix) murder trial after the events of the first film. The sequel includes several musical numbers that take place throughout Arthur's murder trial, leading to his guilty conviction and an explosive climax that sees Arthur briefly escape and eventually returned to Arkham State Hospital, where he is incarcerated following the first film.

Gaga previously responded to the movie's negative reviews during a January interview with Elle. "People just sometimes don’t like some things,” she said at that time. “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.”

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Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux

While speaking with Rolling Stone, Gaga also said she poured many of her feelings regarding the movie into a music video she released for her song "Disease," weeks after the Joker sequel hit theaters.

"When we were done filming [the music video], I went kind of into a dark place mentally,” she said. “Maybe I scared myself a little bit.… For weeks I was really bothered. It was in my head a lot. I was actually trying to figure out what I was trying to say. There’s a side of me that’s scared of another side. And I think that there was a sense in me that I was not done healing.”

Joker: Folie à Deux is streaming on HBO Max now.

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