Folie À Deux continues a strange Lady Gaga movie trend

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Joker: Folie à Deux.

The end of Joker: Folie à Deux Continues a surprising and unusual trend that has already been seen in Lady Gaga’s two previous major film appearances. Lady Gaga has been cast in the sequel to Todd Phillips’ 2019 smash hit, JokerSet outside the mainstream DC Universe, in August 2022, revealed to bring DC Comics’ Harley Quinn to life against Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, aka Joker. While Joker: Folie à Deux Received some criticism, Lady Gaga’s performance as Lee Quinzel was widely praised, adding another entry to her strong filmography.

Lady Gaga is one of the world’s most beloved and best-selling music artists She has proven her versatility time and again, which has translated brilliantly into her acting roles on screen.. Apart from small appearances in Machete kills And Sin City: A Lady To Kill For, Gaga began to make her name as an actor with her starring role in American Horror Story: Hotel Before taking leading roles in feature films. However, all of Lady Gaga’s major movie appearances have followed a similar, weird pattern, which spells bad news for her male co-star.

Lady Gaga’s last 3 movie co-stars all played doomed characters

Bradley Cooper, Adam Driver and Joaquin Phoenix all starred opposite Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga currently has leading roles in three major feature films, but in each of them, Her male co-stars portrayed characters who passed out by the end of the movie. Gaga’s first leading movie role was as up-and-coming singer-songwriter Ally in 2018. A star is bornWho was taken under the wing of Bradley Cooper’s established star Jackson Maine. Ali’s skyrocket to stardom coincides with Jackson’s downfall, eventually culminating in him taking his own life. 2021s House of Gucci Later saw Lady Gaga’s Patrizia Reggiani order a hit against her husband, Adam Driver’s Maurizio Gucci.

2024s Joker: Folie à Deux Continuing this strange pattern for Lady Gaga, the movie ends with Arthur Fleck being stabbed and killed by another inmate at Arkham Asylum, portrayed by Connor Storrie. Gaga’s Lee Quinzel had already parted ways with Fleck before his brutal murder, as she was disappointed in him denying the identity of the Joker and confessing to his own crimes at the end of his elaborate trial. While all of Lady Gaga’s male co-stars have, so far, played doomed characters, Folie à Deux Puts a spin on this interesting trend.

Joker: Folie À Deux’s tragic ending is different from A Star Is Born and House of Gucci

Joaquin Phoenix portrayed two versions of the same character in Joker: Folie À Deux

While Joker: Folie à Deux Ends with Arthur Fleck’s death, it’s not actually Fleck that Lee Quinzel falls in love with. instead, Lady Gaga’s character is infatuated with Joker, but it’s not Joker who dies at the end of the movie, it’s Fleck. This puts a spin on the growing pattern shown by Gaga’s male co-stars, as they have previously been Gaga’s characters’ partners, but Arthur Fleck is not. even so, Joker: Folie à Deux Still continuing the theme, and it remains to be seen whether Gaga’s next movie appearances will repeat it.

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