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Lady Gaga Interrogates WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange in the Most Surreal Movie Moment of the Year

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It features in Oscar-winner Laura Poitras’ (‘Citizenfour’) new documentary on Assange, ‘Risk,’ and is one of the funniest movie sequences you’ll see all year.

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It is, without question, one of the most bizarre—and side-splittingly funny—movie scenes you’ll see all year. Midway through Laura Poitras’ documentary Risk, which provides an illuminating (and confounding) look at WikiLeaks’ controversial founder Julian Assange, pop diva Lady Gaga shows up.

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