Director: Posy Dixon
Director Of Photography: Henry Lockyer
Editor: Tajah Smith
Producer: Rashida Josiah
Creative Production Coordinator: Anisa Kennar
Camera Operator: Rebecca Richards
Gaffer: Leo Olesker
Audio: Jermaine Monero
Runner: Paige Howard
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Senior Production Manager: Alexandra Dawson Herren
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed on Location: The Soho Hotel
Special Thanks: Blooming Haus
Director Of Photography: Henry Lockyer
Editor: Tajah Smith
Producer: Rashida Josiah
Creative Production Coordinator: Anisa Kennar
Camera Operator: Rebecca Richards
Gaffer: Leo Olesker
Audio: Jermaine Monero
Runner: Paige Howard
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Natasha Soto-Albors
Senior Production Manager: Alexandra Dawson Herren
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Associate Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio
Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy
Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri
Filmed on Location: The Soho Hotel
Special Thanks: Blooming Haus
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00:00Are we good?
00:01Yes.
00:02Okay.
00:03Slate one, take one.
00:08How are you feeling right now?
00:09I just feel so excited.
00:13I feel so grateful.
00:20I just came from the London premiere of Joker Folie a Deux
00:25and I got to see at least 800 to a couple thousand fans or something.
00:31It was just like this really special, exciting experience delivering the movie to the world.
00:37Now I'm here talking to you and after we talk, I'm going to go to the first listening party of Harlequin,
00:44which is a companion album that I made to go with the film Joker
00:49and their little monsters will hear the album for the very first time.
00:57Sharing the film with a new audience is exciting and a little nerve-wracking,
01:03but it's so much of a shared vision with the director and your fellow actors.
01:08And Harlequin is all my own.
01:11My interpretation of all the music from the film, as well as a couple originals,
01:16a little bit of a different feeling.
01:18It's much more scary, I think.
01:20I get really kind of nervous and I feel super fragile,
01:24which is probably unreasonable and silly, but yeah, that's how I feel.
01:31This is Custom Celine by Eddie Slimane.
01:34We have known each other for a long time and he photographed me for the cover of my album, The Fame Monster.
01:41I actually realized tonight my hair is actually very similar to the album cover that he shot.
01:47Different outfits, also strong shoulders.
01:50Tonight was like a really special evening,
01:53meant to be kind of elegant and a little bit rebellious.
01:59Two things I like.
02:00Arianne Phillips and I worked on styling this film together.
02:05We had this tall order because there's an idea that people have about Harlequin
02:10and we wanted to create something completely new.
02:14That was a challenge, but we really focused on what would be true to her.
02:20The clothes were kind of immature, indicative of a younger mind.
02:26In that way, I think we were honing in on this kind of uncomfortable young quality in her,
02:33even though she's in her 30s.
02:35And we also talked a lot about feminism and prairie dresses
02:40and what that kind of domestic garb meant at an earlier point in time
02:47and how it was subverted to become feminist in the right sort of context of styling.
02:54And I think that some of the reason that we did that too was because Lee is obsessed with a man.
03:02That subversion created an authenticity and vulnerability and uniqueness to her
03:08that was maybe also a little provocative.
03:11Developing Lee was really private and something that I will always remember.
03:18And when I watched the film back, I noticed right away some things that I shared through her
03:26that are something that only people really close to me would know.
03:30I think that there's some stigmas, actors not leaving their roles.
03:34But for me, it has more to do with all of the things that you learn
03:39when you are being creative or developing a project or a character.
03:45That's why I made Harlequin, because I wanted to keep going.
03:53My fiancé Michael and I co-executive produced this album.
03:59We went through this really special experience making Joker together.
04:04We were able to have this really deep conversation about Lee and Arthur and Harley and Joker
04:12and in what ways does Harley fantasize about harnessing all of Joker's fame
04:19and in what ways would she fantasize about some kind of revenge on him
04:23for all the ways that he may break her heart.
04:26I just wasn't really done with Lee when I was done filming the movie.
04:31We decided it could be just like a really imaginative experience with music
04:37to take all the complexities of her as a character and translate them into an album.
04:43Harlequin is a woman that decides who she is when she wants to
04:49and is completely unapologetic, unpredictable, rebellious, loud and soft, pure and tainted.
04:57She's the embodiment of everything I believe women deserve to have in terms of freedom.
05:04It's like this incredibly unique experience to be in love with somebody that you can also create with.
05:12There's a song that's really special to me called Happy Mistake.
05:16And that song is a very, very personal look at the human being that played Lee
05:26and my relationship with playing broken women throughout my career in different ways.
05:38One of the lyrics is a lonely disposition, portraits of a strung out girl.
05:46How'd I get so addicted to the love of the whole world?
05:49It's kind of a confession of what it's like to live dual identities.
05:58The ultimate confessional Lady Gaga song in a way.
06:02I'm going to go to the first listening party of Harlequin.
06:07This was like our brainchild together.
06:10So it's so fun for us to deliver it to the fans.
06:17I have such amazing fans and seeing them out in London tonight was so, so fun.
06:24They already had printouts of the Harlequin album cover and they were wearing the makeup.
06:29That was so cool to see.
06:31It's hard to describe almost two decades long of a relationship with this community.
06:40When I first came out, a lot of interviewers all over the world wanted to ask me about my clothes.
06:47I would often get made fun of in the interview or there'd be a lot of probing questions.
06:52Why the stage persona? Why the name? Why all of it?
06:56My fans always felt that I wasn't really that weird.
07:01I feel like my fans always have kind of had a secret handshake with me.
07:07Of like, you know, we've got you. Like, we know who you are.
07:10You know, you don't have to apologize for who you are.
07:13I still feel that way.
07:14That's really cool to run into fans at a movie premiere when you're 38
07:21and you're still like doing hand signals and going like, it's cool.
07:25Just be yourself.
07:27That's all, folks.
07:31You