Lady Gaga is bringing the drama and giving Gotham City Vibes on the Venice Film Festival red carpet the actress turns heads in a voluminous Dior ball gown as she steps out on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of The Joker sequel at the Italian filmfest the star who also made her red carpet debut with fiance Michael palansky tops off her look with a dramatic pointed headpiece by Philip Tracy and completes her Ensemble with Tiffany and Company Jewels Gaga's engagement ring was also on full display on the carpet her trip to Venice is the first time we've gotten a clear look at the massive Rock since the engagement news was revealed back in July the Oscar winner and her man show off some sweet PDA as they enjoy their boat ride on the way to the Joker 2 premiere the film which the 38-year-old stars in as Harley Quinn earned an 11 minute standing ovation at the film festival during a press conference with her co-star walking Phoenix and filmmaker Todd Phillips Gaga explains why she doesn't consider the Joker sequel to be a musical plus how her process of unlearning music was critical to her success in the role I think the way that we approached music in this film was very special and extremely nuanced uh I I wouldn't necessarily say that this is actually a musical and a lot of ways it's uh very different the way that music is used is to really give the characters a way to express what they need to say because the scene and just the dialogue is not enough so uh like Walken said we did a lot of this live uh and in a lot of ways The Pianist that was on set with us was sort of like an actor off off camera u in the scene with us and uh we worked really hard also on the way that we sang and for me it was a lot about uh kind of unlearning technique and uh forget how to breathe and allowing uh the song to completely come out of the character and you know like Todd said you know he always felt like Arthur had music inside of him and I I think I just for me I really wanted to help execute Todd's vision for what this could be with music [Music]