Did anybody else hear about this?
As I was reading a bunch of stuff on the Oscars, I came across this article titled Joaquin Phoenix Says He’ll be Back to Movies, which of course piqued my interest. The Hollywood Reporter writer Roger Friedman said he met Phoenix just last week at Soho House in NYC, and here’s how he described the encounter:
Joaquin never looked better–clear eyed and clean shaven, a 180 degree turnaround from his digression into rapping and riffing last year on talk shows. He told me with certainty that he will likely return to acting now after a relatively short break. He’s just hoping to read some good scripts. “Why don’t you write one?” he asked facetiously.
I wish there were a photo of him looking clean-shaven again, but in case you need a reminder of what he looks like, here’s a side-by-side photo of his two personalities:
Well, if this is indeed true, then hooray!! I think Joaquin is a terrific actor whose absence from acting is sorely missed! Russell Crowe wasn’t the only great thing in Gladiator, Joaquin’s sinister turn as Commodus was equally memorable. He’s able to mix high profile projects such as in Walk the Line (as Johnny Cash) and in M. Night Shamalayan’s The Village, with smaller, quirkier roles such as To Die For and Quills. I haven’t seen his last movie Two Lovers with Gwyneth Paltrow, but it was well-received by critics (84% on rottentomatoes.com).
I sure hope it won’t be long before we see him grace the silver screen again. It’s bad enough that we already lost his talented brother River who also had such a promising career ahead of him, we need you back, Joaquin!
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Phoenix is a lunatic but he can act! The fact that he never watches himself acting is proof enough.
Yeah, some really talented actors are sometimes a bit mental, but perhaps that helps them with their acting? I think a lot of actors don’t like watching themselves on-screen though, that hardly make them looney-tunes though.
I am not surprised by this at all. I just hope that his whole rapping phase wasn’t fake and we are actually going to be able to see a documentary on it by Casey Affleck. Man, I could use that for a laugh.
Yeah, I guess it didn’t exactly hit me out of left field, but still good to hear. I really don’t know if the whole rap fixation he seemed to be in was real or not, my friend at work theorized that it was all for a show (Affleck’s doc you mentioned), which if it were the case, then kudos to him because he was quite convincing 🙂 Yeah, I’d love to see that one, it’d be amusing for sure!
Great news!
Being messed up is a prerequisite to being a GREAT actor. Leave “normal” to us cubical working 9 to 5’ers. Welcome back!
Many of you out there do not know about the upbringing of this family, River, Joaquin and his other siblings, the parents at one time were involved with a cult, they were called the “Children of God”. Read about it, I saw the TV late night story, real life story August 30th. I was shocked about this cult and the white bearded old man leader, who abused all the memebers of his family, parents both abused their children, raising them to believe this was normal.
The parents of River and Joaquin joined this cult and at a early age, River(4 years old) was abused by this cult, so you can imagine what else happened to the rest of these young children, one being, “Joaquin”!. I was shocked as any one who saw this story, so if Joaquin is a little flambouant! so be it.
The secrets in any family can disturb all the members, especially young innocent children who are raised not in a normal home! Let’s not be so quick to judge, we don’t know what all these children in this sick cult endured and what those memories they have to keep for the rest of their lives! Alot of therapy I am sure.