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Lady Gaga is set to play Harley Quinn in Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie à Deux, and the filmmaker explains how her version of the villain differs from previous iterations.

The comic book character has been a fan favorite ever since her source material and versions of the character in Batman: The Animated Series, her animated series, and the film in which Margot Robbie played her.

"While there are some things that people recognize in her, it's really Gaga's own interpretation, and Scott [Silver, co-writer] and I's interpretation," Phillips told Empire in an interview. "She became the way [Charles] Manson had girls who idolized him. The way these [incarcerated killers] sometimes have people who look up to them."