Updated On: 09 October, 2024 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Think Warner pulled a joke, hyping up a two-location, art-house pic, for a global, mainstream, blockbuster max!

A still from Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga
Something tells me the first time the penny must’ve dropped for director Todd Phillips to feature Lady Gaga in a musical was watching rushes, or final cut, of Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born (2018).
Wherein Lady Gaga makes a ‘Tiger Woodsian’ debut as a natural-born film star, adding so much to her onscreen persona, with that popstar voice. Nobody knew, until then, Gaga could act. The world went gaga after.