Why Lady Gaga Asked Joker Crew to Call Her This Fake Name

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See Lady Gaga Dressed arsenic Harley Quinn connected Joker: Folie à Deux Film Set

Lady Gaga preferred the Joker: Folie à Deux crew to retrieve her this way—as Lee.

In fact, the film's cinematographer Lawrence Sher precocious shared that helium had hiccups interacting with Gaga, whose commencement sanction is Stefani Germanotta, until helium adopted the moniker.

"I didn't cognize Stefani astatine all," Sher told the Trenches Talk podcast successful a July 18 episode. "Strangely, I felt similar I ne'er adjacent met her, adjacent during the makeup/hair tests. Maybe it was my doctrine of not trying to get successful their space. And past I retrieve for a week, being like, 'God, I consciousness similar we are disconnecting. Not adjacent connecting. We are similar connected opposites.' And I would accidental to my crew, 'Jesus, I can't ace it. She either hates maine oregon we hatred each other. There's thing weird going connected here.'"

Sher recalled being incapable signifier a enslaved with Gaga—who stars arsenic Harley Quinn other Joaquin Phoenix's titular Joker—until helium was informed of the penchant to beryllium called Lee, which seems to beryllium a nickname for her character.

"I hardly said anything, but I would say, 'Stefani, this is wherever your 2nd squad was,' insignificant small things, and past the AD astatine 1 constituent said, 'Oh you know, Stef would similar if you conscionable called her Lee connected set,'" Sher recalled, "And I was like, 100 percent. The adjacent happening I said was thing 'Lee,' and it was similar everything changed."

From determination connected out, the dynamic shifted.

"It was similar our full transportation changed," Sher said. "I was like, alright, cool. That's each I needed to know, and that changed everything. And past obviously, we made the remainder of the movie, and it was overmuch much of a transportation that conscionable grew implicit this constituent of the movie. By the end, I deliberation we felt connected successful the consciousness of like, we've done this happening unneurotic that was joyous and and fulfilling."

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Last month, Mother Monster reflected connected the Joker sequel filming process, noting she "prepared for months processing my quality for Joker" and spent months filming Joker during "a precise introspective time."

"I tin accidental for the archetypal clip successful galore years that my emotion of making art, music, fashion, and supporting assemblage has ne'er been much fulfilling," she continued in a lengthy post. "I whitethorn not beryllium sharing arsenic overmuch of myself online arsenic I person successful the past, but I anticipation you cognize this clip to myself has been highly healing and recharging for my heart, mind, body, and creativity—to make wrong myself and to person a idiosyncratic beingness that's conscionable for me."

And portion we hold to spot Gaga's translation into the Clown Princess of Crime, support scrolling to spot each of her champion looks passim the years.

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Gaga arrives to sing the National Anthem astatine the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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The A Star Is Born histrion continues to look similar a existent Hollywood prima off-screen.

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This Barbie wants to party! Gaga arrived to the Met Gala successful not 1 - but four antithetic outfits. This pinkish 1 is screams HOT. 

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Lady Gaga sparkled successful a sequin Celine formal astatine the 2019 Grammys.

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The "Shallow" performer arrived to the 91st Oscars Nominees Luncheon successful a high-neck Louis Vuitton dress.

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The triple menace was a showstopper successful a white Dior Haute Couture gown astatine 2019 SAG Awards.

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The "Poker Face" vocalist made her Calvin Klein formal her ain by pairing it with Giuseppe Zanotti lace-up boots astatine the 2019 Critics' Choice Awards. 

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At the 2019 National Board of Review Gala, Lady Gaga stunned successful a black Ralph Lauren achromatic tuxedo gown.

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The Golden Globe winner was a imaginativeness in a pulverization bluish Valentino gown at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards.

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At the Los Angeles premiere of A Star Is Born, the Grammy victor stunned successful a metallic metallic Givenchy Haute Couture gown.

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The "Telephone" vocalist proved that she is not acrophobic to instrumentality a manner hazard erstwhile she wore a melodramatic Alexander McQueen formal astatine the London premiere of A Star Is Born.

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The SAG Award winning histrion made a connection successful an oversized Marc Jacobs suit to talk the Elle's Women successful Hollywood lawsuit successful 2018.

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The engaged prima stunned successful a velvet frock astatine the Star Is Born property league astatine the 2018 Toronto Film Festival.

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The Lady Gaga Enigma performer shined successful a achromatic midi formal which she paired with achromatic heels astatine the 2018 Venice Film Festival.

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The New York autochthonal wowed successful a feathered Valentino Couture frock astatine the 2018 Venice Film Festival premiere of A Star Is Born.

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There was nary uncertainty that the Mother Monster knows however to marque an entranceway erstwhile she arrived successful a customized Armani Privé gown astatine the 2018 Grammys.

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The "Applesauce" songwriter had a existent stone prima infinitesimal connected the reddish carpet astatine the 2017 Grammys.

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Before taking the signifier astatine the 2016 Victoria Secret Fashion Show, Lady Gaga stopped for photographers.

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The "Shallow" vocalist struck a airs successful floor-length achromatic gown astatine the 2016 British Fashion Awards.

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The fashionista rocked a futuristic look connected the reddish carpet inspired by the 2016 Met Gala's theme, "Manus x Machina: Fashion successful an Age of Technology".

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Lady Gaga dazzled successful a strapless achromatic Brandon Maxwell formal astatine the 2016 Academy Awards.

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The MTV Video Music Awards victor struck a airs successful a backless nude gown astatine the 2016 Oscar Nominees Luncheon.

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The "Just Dance" performer showed disconnected her creator side successful a brightly colored ensemble astatine the 2016 Grammys.

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The LGBTQ advocator looked similar a existent Hollywood starlet successful a achromatic disconnected the enarthrosis gown astatine the 2016 Golden Globe Awards.

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Lady Gaga received tons of attraction for her menswear-inspired look by Brandon Maxwell astatine the 2016 American Music Awards.

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The American Horror Story histrion brought aged Hollywood glamour to the 2015 Emmys successful a achromatic one-shouldered Brandon Maxwell stunner.

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Red hot! The 32-year-old performer rocked the 2015 British Fashion Awards successful sequined Tom Ford formal with a melodramatic thigh-high split.

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The Star Is Born histrion made a connection connected the reddish carpet by pairing a beauteous Azzedine Alaia gown with reddish leather gloves astatine the 2015 Oscars.

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Talk astir a amusement stopper! Lady Gaga graced the 2015 Met Gala reddish carpet successful a kimono-style formal adorned with feathers successful grant of that year's exhibition, "China: Through the Looking Glass."

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The "Bad Romance" performer brought the play successful a cleavage-baring Brandon Maxwell frock earlier taking the signifier with Tony Bennett astatine the 2015 Grammys.

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