Lady Gaga was praised by co-star Joaquin Phoenix over her 'impressive' weight loss for their latest flick.<br>
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The 38-year-old singer was recognized by her 49-year-old co-star <br>
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Joaquin was discussing his personal weight loss for the original 2019 film before praising the Poker Face hitmaker whose real name is Stefani Germanotta.<br>
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<b>He said: 'Stefani also lost a lot of weight.</b><br>
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'I remember when I first met you in rehearsals and then you <br>
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Lady Gaga was praised by co-star Joaquin Phoenix <br>
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The 38-year-old singer was recognized by her <br>
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The Oscar-winner continued praising Gaga as he added:<br>
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'It was really impressive. It seemed very difficult.'<br>
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<b>Joaquin Phoenix reveals he 'almost lost his mind' after diet to lose three stone for The Joker</b><br>
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The admiration was mutual between the stars as Joaquin plays Arthur Fleck AKA The Joker and Gaga plays Harleen 'Lee' Quinzil AKA <br>
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Gaga told her co-star: 'I think we transformed into our characters over a period <br>
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of time and we continued to hone in every kind of detail.'<br>
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The last time that actor Joaquin played The Joker, he had to drop <br>
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over forty pounds (three and a half stone).<br>
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He went on a diet of lettuce, asparagus and apples which he said <br>
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made him almost lose his mind.<br>
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Five years later he has returned to the Oscar-winning role again in Joker: Folie a Deux - and says that he had to lose almost the same amount of weight once more,<br>
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and is never doing it again.<br>
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Speaking at the Venice Film Festival he said:<br>
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'I'm not going to talk through specifics of the diet,<br>
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because I just think nobody wants to hear that.<br>
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'But this time, it felt a bit more complicated just because there was so much dance rehearsal that we were doing, which I didn't have last time. <br>
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'It felt a bit more difficult, but it is safe. But you're right, I'm now 49, I probably shouldn't do <br>
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this again. This is probably it for me.' <br>
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Joaquin was discussing his personal weight loss for the original 2019 film before praising the <br>
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Poker Face hitmaker whose real name is Stefani Germanotta as he said: 'Stefani also lost <br>
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a lot of weight. I remember when I first met you in rehearsals <br>
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and then you went away for like a month and then you came back, you lost a lot of weight'<br>
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Joaquin has revealed he 'almost lost his mind' after surviving on a diet of 'lettuce, asparagus and apples' to lose three and <br>
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a half stone to play The Joker (Seen left in the film and right at Venice Film Festival on Wednesday)<br>
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The last time that actor Joaquin Phoenix played The Joker,<br>
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Arthur Fleck, he had to drop three and a half stone - and he has revealed he had to do so again<br>
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<strong>He added: 'I know I was responsible last time for talking about it,<br>
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but it's difficult to do so. </strong><br>
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<u><i>'That becomes your obsession because you're working the entire time to get <br>
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'So then you end up talking about it, and then it just sounds like an actor going on and on about how much <br>
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'By the end of that run I was so sick of myself and <br>
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angry at myself for making such a big deal about that part, because you just do what <br>
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you're ****ing supposed to do. So this time I was like, 'I'm not going <br>
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<strong><u>He then whispered: 'It was 47 pounds,' before adding:<br>
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'No, I'm joking. I don't know.'</u></strong><br>
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Co star Lady Gaga, who plays a music therapist at Arkham Asylum, said: 'We rehearsed the waltz in the film for two months which kind of falls apart. <br>
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<b><u>'When Joaquin was too hungry we fed him <br>
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Phoenix said: 'Part of the joy for me was to take standards and find a <br>
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way that was specific to the characters. <br>
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'That was part of what was interesting for us.<br>
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We started off with references like Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr and we started <br>
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to emulate that sound.'<br>
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Speaking at the Venice Film Festival he said: 'I'm not going <br>
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to talk through specifics of the diet, because I just think nobody wants to hear <br>
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that'<br>
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Five years after the first film, he has returned to the <br>
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Oscar-winning role again in Joker: Folie a Deux - and says that he had to lose almost <br>
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the same amount of weight once more, and is never doing it again (Seen left before filming in 2018 and right after)<br>
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'But this time, it felt a bit more complicated just because there was so much <br>
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dance rehearsal that we were doing, which I didn't have last time,' Joaquin said of the weight loss this time round <br>
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Joaquin's weight loss for the first film somewhat 'obsessed' with his weight where <br>
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he also developed a 'disorder' over pounds (Seen left in the first film and right ahead of <br>
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filming)<br>
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He added that his co-star Lady Gaga, real name Stephanie Germanotta 'wanted <br>
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to sing live and I did not. In the end, every part of <br>
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the recording was live.' <br>
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Gaga said: 'The way music is used is to give <br>
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characters a way to express themselves because the dialogue is not enough.' <br>
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She had to forget her professional training: 'It was about unlearning technique and forgetting how to <br>
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<b>Director Todd Phillips said that he felt the pressure <br>
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after the success of The Joker. </b><br>
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He said: 'I'm more nervous of this one than the first one.<br>
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The first one we were under the radar, this one everyone was <br>
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<b>The Warner Bros film is released on October 4th.</b><br>
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After the release of the first film, Joaquin shut down rumours he only <br>
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ate an apple a day to achieve his astonishing weight loss, telling <br>
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'It wasn't an apple a day. No, you've also got lettuce and steamed green beans,' he said of what he ate in preparation for the role. <br>
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The actor previously admitted that 'you start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that amount of time'<br>
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While speaking with Access Hollywood, Joaquin explained he consulted with a doctor <br>
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Although Joaquin has lost weight for roles before, he admitted that 'Joker' director Todd Phillips <br>
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The Her star recalled how the producer always had the one food item he craved on hand, which made his <br>
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'Todd did have these f*****g pretzels that I love.<br>
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And he'd just have bags of them in his office!' he said.<br>
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'And that was difficult.' <br>
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Joaquin's character is wearyingly thin in the film, and he admitted that <br>
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he had reservations about taking on such a drastic weight loss. <br>
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'It's a horrible way to live,' he told the New York Times.<br>
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'I think [the Joker] should be kind of heavy. Todd was like, <br>
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'I think you should do the real thin person.''<br>
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<u><i>Joaquin previously said his extreme diet helped him prepare for the role in more ways than one. </i></u><br>
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'The first thing for us was the weight loss — I think that's really what I started with,' he said of working with the film's director. <br>
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'And, as it turns out, that then affects your psychology.<br>
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You start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that <br>
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