On Monday, the Oscar winner was spotted on set in Canada shooting scenes for the upcoming film Disappointment Blvd. Phoenix was seen with gray, thinning hair and was noticeably larger since his last role as the Joker , a part he said he lost 52 pounds to play. While not much has been said about the year-old actor's new film, written and directed by Ari Aster Midsommar, Hereditary , IMDb describes it as a "decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
As Arthur Fleck, Phoenix leans into his physical features, from the scar on his upper lip not a surgically fixed cleft, he says, but a nonsurgical scar he was born with to his leonine gaze, sad-sack grin, and distended shoulder, which he was also born with.
Phillips, who directed the comedies Old School and the Hangover series, pitched the idea of a Joker movie to Warner Bros. The result is a drama that doubles as a critique of Hollywood: an alienated white guy whose failure to be funny drives him into a vengeful rage. He says he conceived the character with Phoenix in mind and gave him the script in late Phoenix queried Phillips endlessly before he joined the film—part of his process, it turns out, which also included asking his mother to examine the script.
In pitching the movie to Phoenix, Phillips told him he needed to think of the film as a heist movie. It was just a movie. Like Dog Day Afternoon is, like, intense, heartbreaking, and fucking funny.
And those are the movies that I love. And those are the movies that I pursue. During one scene, the screenplay called for Fleck to shut himself in a bathroom after several murders, looking for a place to hide his gun. Phoenix began dancing, an elegant, tango-like movement, and Phillips asked the cameraman to start filming with a handheld camera, just the three of them in the room while a crew of waited outside.
The muse of the movie, in many ways, is one of its costars, Robert De Niro, who plays a late-night talk show host modeled in part on Johnny Carson. Ironically, the two barely spoke on the set, in part because of their similar acting methods and artistic superstitions. Relate as the characters to each other. There was nonetheless some disagreement on the method to the method.
Before shooting his scenes, De Niro wanted the cast to do a read-through of the script, a practice he considered standard. De Niro invited him to his office, on a different floor, to talk, but Phoenix demurred. Phillips urged him to come up—this was Robert De Niro, after all—and Phoenix reluctantly agreed. After they talked over a few minor issues, De Niro turned to Phoenix, took his face in his hands, and kissed him on the cheek.
Last July, Warner Bros. After watching Phoenix as the maniacal creep Arthur Fleck, I went outside to discover my rental car had been towed—the rookie move of a non-Angeleno. It was at night, just in time for a prescheduled phone call from Joaquin Phoenix. There was an uncomfortable moment as I told him the location. In an uncanny and unfortunate coincidence, it was directly behind the Viper Room. Having just seen Phoenix in his harrowing role, it was hard not to think of that grim night, October 31, He had accompanied River and Rain to the club, which was frequented by the Hollywood brat pack of the era, including actors Keanu Reeves and Christina Applegate.
One version of the story is that a well-known guitar player handed River a Dixie cup containing a liquid concoction of heroin and cocaine, and he drank it—well over a lethal dose, the coroner later determined. As River convulsed on the sidewalk outside the club and Rain looked on, Joaquin made the heartbreaking call. Now, 26 years later, Phoenix drives up in a beat-up old black Lexus, warm and smiling in a pair of white karate pants and well-worn Converse sneakers, a cigarette dangling from his lip and his hair not so much combed back as yanked into submission.
In , River famously told Details magazine that he lost his virginity at age four, which seemed to cement a narrative about what happened inside the cult. It was just fucking with the press. Udaipur-based food tech startup Good Dot is cashing in on the rising trend of plant-based food leanings in the Indian market. Expect vegetarian achari tikkas, ready-to-eat biryani, Thai curries with mock meats and vegan mutton that boast of eliminating cholesterol and trans fats from your diet.
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The couple welcomed the child, whom they named after Phoenix's late musician brother , in September , according to reports. They addressed their son's birth publicly for the first time the following month, in an op-ed for People about family separation at the border.
In the article published Sunday, the "Joker" star said he "would hope" River wants to be vegan, but it's not for the actor to decide. But Phoenix did say he's "going to educate River about the reality" of the meat and dairy industry.
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