Telling look between Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix when asked about box office dud Joker movie

A video of Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix's awkward absorption aft they were asked to stock their thoughts connected Joker: Folie à Deux has gone viral amid the immense backlash that the movie is facing.

The highly anticipated Joker sequel deed theaters connected Friday, but immediately, it was fiercely panned by viewers and critics alike.

Amid the scrutiny, a clip of Lady Gaga and Joaquin discussing the movie has taken implicit the web.

While chatting with Good Morning Britain past week, the 2 stars were asked if the movie turned retired to beryllium 'everything they expected.'

Immediately, they some turned to look astatine 1 different and smiled. 

For a fewer seconds, the 2 stars sat successful soundlessness arsenic they some waited for the different to reply the question.

'Tell them however you feel, Joaquin,' Lady Gaga, 38, said to her costar arsenic she held retired a fake microphone successful beforehand of him.

'It's truthful hard to speech astir but I deliberation we consciousness similar we achieved what we acceptable retired to do,' Joaquin, 49, simply stated. 

Someone connected X, formerly Twitter, posted the infinitesimal online past week and it went viral, gaining much past 437,000 views successful a substance of days - and galore users took their archetypal soundlessness arsenic impervious that they 'didn't like' the film.

The net has been flooded with antagonistic posts astir the flick ever since it premiered, with 1 idiosyncratic branding it arsenic a 'bore' and different claiming it had 'no plot.'

Many societal media users person besides slammed the movie's last scene, which saw main quality Arthur Fleck (portrayed by Joaquin) brutally stabbed to decease by a chap inmate.

This meant that the antheral that audiences had been watching implicit the people of the 2 movies was ne'er the Joker astatine all, but successful fact, the infamous villain from the Batman bid was truly conscionable the random inmate who killed Arthur successful the past moments of the film.

The shocking twist near galore viewers unsatisfied, and they took to societal media to stock their frustration.

'The ending made the movie a implicit waste,' 1 outraged idiosyncratic wrote. 

'The ending was pathetic,' scathed idiosyncratic else. 'WTF you mean nary Joker?' 

'The ending made nary sense,' added different person. 

'That ending? It's truthful atrocious that not lone it ruins Joker 2 but besides the archetypal Joker for the audience,' work a 4th tweet.

'The Joker had truthful overmuch imaginable but that f**king ending ruined everything,' a 5th said. 

The Todd Phillips-directed philharmonic serves arsenic a follow-up to the 2019 container bureau hit, which was simply titled Joker. 

The archetypal movie grossed implicit $1 cardinal and astatine the clip was the highest-grossing R-rated movie of each time. It received 11 Oscar nominations - 2 of which it won. 

The sequel, however, has already been overmuch little successful. It had a lackluster $40 cardinal debut astatine the container bureau successful its archetypal weekend, and has a debased standing of 33 percent and 31 percent connected Rotten Tomatoes.

'Undoing overmuch of the goodwill from its predecessor, the sequel convolutes what could person been a unsocial quality survey into a bloated encore that goes retired with a whimper,' reads 1 review. 

Another professional wrote, 'This movie is simply a disjointed messiness and a discarded of time. It's conscionable tired, not peculiarly interesting, but it does look bully from a accumulation plan standpoint.'