[Applause] it feels right it feels correct to be back in Venice um it felt like The Logical launching off point for us for for this second film uh we have a very strong feeling towards Venice and and what happened last time not just obviously winning the festival but just the way the film was treated um but I will say on this one I'm a little more nervous and I think it's a lot easier to come in to something as the Insurgent as opposed to coming in as the incumbent and so there's a lot more expectations on a second film and so yeah there's a there's definitely a sense of more nervousness than I had with the first one surpris that they work as AAL and psychological drama my question for each of you for Todd 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 and uh I think we started kind of trying to emulate that sound at least I did before we realized Iz like wait a second this is not this is not who Arthur is might be who Joker wants to be um and so that was a I think a point at least for me it felt like something really clicked where we took these standards and decided to do kind of our own understanding of them or interpretation and Gaga was really um I can't sorry Stephanie uh um was really early on she was like oh we're going to sing live and uh I was like no we're not or you you you can sing live if you'd like but I'm and ultimately we did yeah and it and it was really the only way I mean that not only did we sing live but um every part of the recording was was live we we didn't seem to completed tracks or to click track we're working with a pist um you know on set so each each take was a different version of of the song and of singing the song um so that felt really exciting I think created an energy that was was necessary at least that I I thought 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 is not enough so so uh like Walkin 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 forgetting how to breathe and allowing uh the song to completely come out of the character um the the dream was is not inspir the movie the the dream was just um I had this dream that I was I was performing as Joker um doing songs and um and I just called Todd um because I thought there might be something there and there wasn't thank you my question is about the makeup it's very important in the movie show us the between and J and also if youde by yourself uh right um this time uh it was it felt a bit more complicated just because there was so much dance rehearsal that we were doing um which I didn't have last time and um and so it was it it felt a bit more more difficult but um no it is safe but you're right I'm Now 49 as I probably shouldn't do this again this is probably that's probably it for me um yeah and and Stephanie also lost a lot of weight I did yeah I did did I remember you we were first I met you and and and then we did some rehearsals then you went away for like a month and then you came back and you lost a lot of weight and it was really impressive and seemed very difficult thank you um you know uh we um you know not familiar with microphones uh we we uh you know I think we transformed into our characters over a period of time and uh we continue to you know hone in uh every kind of uh detail U but I would say I would say uh preparing the the Walts that's in the film was really really special we rehearsed for like a few months um and uh it's interesting it's a it's a waltz that kind of falls apart and um it's a really nice expression of this um very strange love between the two of them um yeah it was a it he was he was he did he did great on we fed him blueberries when he was really hungry so as said before he was kind of nervous to make secret I was nervous the last five years it was kind of the beauty of of the whole thing was you know you you can learn a song you can learn a routine for a dance you can you can drill something over and over again until you have it nearly perfect and but that's not always the most honest thing to do on camera so I I feel like you know we put in a lot of the work but the joy of filming I think was that when we got there we just kind of threw it all away and saw what happened when the camera was rolling thank you all you you