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Joker: Folie à Deux – Margot Robbie On Lady Gaga Playing Harley Quinn

Lady Gaga is playing Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux and Margot Robbie is so happy other people will play her because "the options are endless."

Margot Robbie is coming off an amazing year with Barbie, however, people seem keen to try and pit her against Lady Gaga regarding the upcoming Joker: Folie à Deux. Gaga is also playing Harley Quinn, a role that Robbie has been playing on the big screen for several movies now, and even those who didn't like the previous era of the DC Universe agreed that her performance ruled. For some reason, people seem to think that means she is somehow unhappy that Gaga will also be playing Harley later this year and keep trying to manufacture some sort of rivalry between the two women about the role. Variety recently spoke to Robbie about the awesome year that her production company LuckyChap had in 2023, but also asked Robbie if she wouldn't be playing Harley anymore now that Gaga has taken on the role.

"I always wanted Harley to be a character that would get passed on to other actresses to play, the way there are so many iconic male characters," Robbie said. "That was always the dream for her. Harley's so fun and can go in so many different directions. You put her in someone else's hands, and it's like, "What are they going to do with her?" The options are endless."

We can expect this year to be filled with plenty of people trying to build a narrative around these two women because, apparently, the idea that two women are supporting each other is too much for some to comprehend. Different people have been playing Batman for years now, so I'm not sure why everyone is acting like Joker: Folie à Deux is such a different thing.

What The Title Joker: Folie à Deux Could Tell Us About The Movie

That title, Joker: Folie à Deux, is telling since Folie à Deux, or "madness of two," is defined as "an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family." Usually, in close family relationships, but sometimes in other types of relationships, one family member suffers some sort of psychotic break or delusion, passing it along to another family member. One notable incidence of this is with Ursula Eriksson and Sabina Eriksson, identical twins who had an incident in May of 2008 that left a man dead. One could argue that the original version of Joker and Harley was doing some version of Folie à Deux, only now we are adding the actual terminology to the incident. The interesting thing here is that Folie à Deux is not something one does intentionally to another person, and it was always implied that the Joker intentionally manipulated Harley for his own volition. If they are pursuing Folie à Deux, that will make it much greyer whether he meant to manipulate her. Does this version of the Joker even mean to drag Harley down with him, or does it just happen because they become very close? Again, all speculation, but it could add a new dynamic to their relationship that we haven't seen before.

Warner Bros. and DC have wanted to make a Joker and Harley movie for years and making it a musical? It's one of those things that will either work so well it's going to be brilliant, or the entire thing will fall apart. We know that both Phoenix and Gaga can act, and seeing Gaga playing someone like Harley would be a lot of fun. For a taste of what she could look like in this role, check out House of Gucci, where she goes pretty over the top in a fun way. As someone who didn't like Joker, though? This is the sort of out-of-left-field sort of thing that actually makes me interested in Joker: Folie à Deux. The current release date is October 4, 2024.

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