Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek’s network of contributorsWhen the Oscar nominations got announced last week, Joker: Folie à Deux was absent from the line-up, a fact that, if you told someone a year ago that the film had no shot at taking home an Academy Award in 2025, people would have been surprised.Joker won two of the eleven Oscars it was nominated for in 2020, so when there were rumors of a sequel, it felt like Joker: Folie à Deux was a lock for some awards attention, particularly with Lady Gaga joining the cast.That was not the case. Instead, the film received seven nominations at the Razzie Awards, including a Worst Actor nod for Joaquin Phoenix, who won his Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck in 2020.Gaga also received a Worst Actress nod, but the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Grammy Award-winning multi-hyphenate isn’t taking it to heart.”People just sometimes don’t like some things,” Gaga told Elle in a new interview. “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.”
(L to r) JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck and LADY GAGA as Lee Quinzel in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
(L to r) JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck and LADY GAGA as Lee Quinzel in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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Joker: Folie à Deux united fans and critics, with both audiences giving it 31% on Rotten Tomatoes, a notable drop off from the 68% critic score and 88% audience score the first film holds.The film debuted at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where Richard Lawson at Vanity Fair called it “startlingly dull” and “a pointless procedural”.Lawson wasn’t the exception. More critique comes from Nicholas Barber at BBC.com, who said it’s “not much fun”, and Kevin Maher at Times (UK), who called it “Messy, lifeless, derivative and exactly what you’d expect from a film that simply doesn’t want, or need, to exist.”Lady Gaga’s next acting gig will be in season two of Wednesday, which stars Jenna Ortega as the beloved Wednesday Addams. Gaga’s exact role is yet to be determined, but Variety reported in November that it’ll be more of a “cameo” role and that attempt to have her star in a larger role “ultimately did not work out.”
