During a new sit-down conversation with Jeremy O. Harris for Interview Magazine, the filmmaker and screenwriter mentioned offhandedly that he had gone to watch the musical follow-up to the 2019 Joker, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as failed comedian Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.

"I left, bought something, came back, saw another 10 minutes. That was enough." When asked what he didn't like about the musical aspect of the film, Schrader was equally as blunt - Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.

Folie à Deux,” the director Todd Phillips’s overblown and undercooked musical sequel to “Joker,” the abused and aggrieved wannabe comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), following the first movie’s killing spree,

In this week’s round up brought to us by Script magazine, Bryan Young shares writerly insight on what writers can learn from both the good and bad of Joker: Folie à Deux.

That was enough,” Schrader said. “It’s a really bad musical.” It’s certainly a surprise to hear Schrader’s assessment, considering he didn’t even get to the tap dancing sequence wherein director Todd Phillips forgot to film Phoenix’s feet.