Reality and make-believe were suddenly colliding, he said. He thought it might have been part of the movie, but soon realized: “Oh, no, it’s a whole different thing going on.” Just a block away, both sides of the abortion issue were competing for attention. “When some of the shots were being filmed, we started hearing loud chanting in the background and everybody was just turning around,” Pagan said. Siris Pagan, 30, arrived in lower Manhattan with his friend, Marissa Perez, to watch the filming. Fittingly, the new move, expected to be released late next year, is being billed as a musical. In the sequel, called “Joker: Folie à Deux,” Lady Gaga joins the cast as Harley Quinn, his love interest. When we last saw the Joker, he was running down the halls of a mental asylum with Frank Sinatra singing “That’s Life.” A rumored caravan of Trump adherents also did not take place, neither did a march dozens of blocks from the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue to the Manhattan courthouse in the lower city. Earlier in the week, a band of young Republicans staged a protest but its numbers were dwarfed by a crush of journalists. “The scene didn’t call for rain, but we’re still out here.”įor the past week, crowds – mostly news media – have been staking out another courthouse up the street from filming. “They can’t stop production for anything, really,” Maniscalchi said. In recent weeks, the former president has called on his supporters to protest what he said was an impending indictment accusing him of paying $130,000 to buy the silence of porn actor Stormy Daniels. In real life, Trump has inspired protests, too. In the film, the Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix, inspires protests against Gotham’s elites.
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