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Lady Gaga queen of red carpet: “I wanted to change the world”

Nobody likes Gaga. She is the queen of the red carpet of this year’s Venice Film Festival. She drives a multitude to a collective frenzy while following her down the short stretch of road between the Excelsior and the Palazzo del Cinema. Walking. No cars. Lady Gaga prefers to walk, squeezed between two wings of the crowd the police struggle to contain. Stefani Germanotta, the protagonist of Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, the second chapter of the Joker saga with Joaquin Phoenix (the film competes for the Golden Lion at Venice 81), walks the red carpet with her boyfriend, Michael Polansky. She wears a black dress, black like the sculpture hat she is wearing. Her people, who have been waiting for her for days, are there in ecstasy: she approaches them to sign autographs and greet them, just as she did with the press in the morning. Phillips has carved out for her the role of a dark lady who manages to bend Joker; she seduces and then abandons him in a play in which music unites the two lost souls. ‘It is not a musical,’ emphasises the actress,’ but the way the music allows the characters to express themselves because scene and dialogue are not enough. We worked a lot on how to sing. For me, it was necessary to forget technique‘. She fell in love with her role and the whole film. ‘It looks like a painting, from the music to the costumes,’ Gaga adds. ‘Working with Phoenix was so easy, a very different experience from any I’ve ever had. Sometimes, we can discover that world thanks to stories about misunderstood people’. The second, long-awaited chapter, which Phoenix does not consider a mere sequel, is being delivered to the public. ‘We want you to decide what this film means to you rather than us deciding for you,” explains Lady Gaga, who confesses that she started making music at a young age’ to have something to say. ‘That’s why I love movies. They tell stories to help people feel good or escape a different world.’ ‘When I was 20, I wanted to change the world,’ she concludes,’ and music and film have the ability and the power to change how people feel.

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