Lady Gaga recently shared her thoughts on being a 38-year-old pop superstar while promoting her upcoming film, ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’. The Grammy and Oscar winner expressed her pride in aging and the joy that comes with embracing new challenges in her career.
Reflecting on her life and future, Gaga spoke about her relationship with her fiance Michael Polansky.
“I am so happy to be in love, and I’m so excited to have a family, so that’s definitely number one. But also, I really believe in the ability to grow as a person.”
Lady Gaga
She emphasized the importance of personal development, saying, “I think that feeling can give everybody hope, and I just want to keep growing, too.”
Describing her current phase as a pop star, she revealed the fun of embracing challenges.
“It’s kind of fun to embrace the challenge of being a 38-year-old pop star and figuring out who I want to be now and what I want to say because I really love women,” she remarked.
Gaga also highlighted her desire to be a meaningful voice within her community, declaring, “I really want to be a voice that deserves to be part of our community.”
The ‘A Star Is Born’ actress reflected on her earlier work, recalling her writing in ‘The Manifesto of Little Monsters’, shared with fans in the super deluxe box set of 2010’s ‘The Fame Monster’.
She noted her enduring connection to her identity as an entertainer, stating, “I love being an entertainer like, truly, in my heart, and I always have.”
Gaga elaborated on her deep bond with her fans.
“It’s not a job for me. It’s just a total gift because it’s how I found a sense of safety for myself in my life.”
Lady Gaga
This connection, she explained, provides her with a sense of protection and understanding. ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ is set to hit theatres on October 4, and Gaga will also release a conceptual companion album, ‘Harlequin’, inspired by her character Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (a.k.a. Harley Quinn), on September 27.
Actress’s Pop Persona Helped Create Joker Character
Lady Gaga used her experience of reinventing herself within the music industry to create her role in ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’.
The singer plays Lee, also known as Harley Quinn in the new movie opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s nemesis the Joker and she’s revealed creating characters in her music helped her when it came to pulling together ideas for her latest onscreen role.
“I think that for me, this idea of dual identities was always something that was a part of my music-making. I was always creating characters in my music, and when I made Lee for Joker, she just really had this profound effect on me.
“The film had so much music in it, so much music that I love, and I was able to discover the character through the story, through the music that we did live every day as well as dance and the costumes and the make-up.”
Lady Gaga
The pop star went on to explain the character of Lee didn’t “leave” her after the cameras stopped rolling, adding that’s why she was inspired to record a companion album to the film called ‘Harlequin’.
She added: “So I kind of had this deep experience with the character and she just didn’t really leave me creatively, and I decided I wanted to make a whole album inspired by her …”
It comes after Gaga revealed she used her experience with “mania and chaos inside” to inform her performance of the comic book character.
“Harley Quinn is a character people know from the ether of pop culture. I had a different experience creating her, namely my experience with mania and chaos inside for me, it creates a quietness. Sometimes women are labeled as overly emotional creatures and when we are overwhelmed we are erratic or unhinged.
“But I wonder if when things become so broken from reality, when we get pushed too far in life, what if it makes you…quiet? I would say that I worked from a sense-memory perspective: What does it feel like to walk through the world and be … braced, in an intense way? And what happens when you cover up all of the complexities beneath the surface?”
Lady Gaga
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