Director Todd Phillips chats with THR on the carpet for the 'Joker: Folie à Deux' premiere and reveals if he was nervous sending the script to Lady Gaga when it was only half done. Plus, he dishes on the possibility of a standalone Harley Quinn movie.
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00:00I know you sent Lady Gaga the script when it was about half done.
00:02Were you nervous and what was her reaction when she first read it?
00:08I guess I was nervous like you would be with any actor when you go to an actor.
00:12She had, I think we sent her half the script and she texted me pretty quickly that she
00:18was really into it, that she loved it and I mean everything you want to hear and then
00:22I went out to her house and we met about what it was going to be, you know the rest of it
00:27because we hadn't written it yet.
00:28Scott Silver and I are notoriously slow writers.
00:32How did that inform the rest of the writing process of the movie?
00:35For me it made it a lot easier because it's always easier when you're writing for an actor.
00:39I don't know why, it's just something that for me it just helps.
00:44Could we see you write a standalone Harley movie for Lady Gaga?
00:49It's not really where this movie is headed for me.
00:51I feel like my time in the DC sort of universe was these two films.