VENEZIA 81 - Lady Gaga e Joaquin Phoenix alla conferenza stampa del Festival del Cinema

it's so nice to see you today um you know 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 in 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 was not enough so uh like Walkin said we did a lot of us 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 little bit a little bit we never mention him again that's all get um but I honestly I I I don't know I'm not sure why um it it resonates with people I think I think different people are attracted to different elements of the film that's what I'm always surprised by is when people do talk about it um every seems to kind of highlight it right yeah I mean I think some people saw it as a straight up comic book adaptation and other people saw it as something different something a little more so to speak and um I don't know either why it resonated I mean you know movies tend to hold a mirror up to society I think it was of that moment um it felt very timely so it's part of what the part of the joy at least for me was taking these songs that were standards and trying to find a way that it felt like they were uh specific to the characters it was the only way that the characters could express themselves were through these particular songs sung in this way and that was part of what was um I think a interesting point for us because initially we started off with some references where you know I had Frank Sinatra um and Samy Davis Jr and these um you know Legends