Phoenix bought her a specially made suit to go to the beach. He believed Mara despised him during the making of Her but later learned she was just shy and actually liked him too.
Never looked up a girl online. His fingernails are chewed to nubs and he keeps two packs of American Spirits and several lighters close at hand. For Joker, he went on an extremely restrictive diet—advised by the same doctor who helped him lose weight for The Master —and lost 52 pounds.
After the film, he gained back 25, but the oily image of his severe, wraithlike body in the trailer for Joker arrived like a shock last spring, evidence that Phoenix had once again gone all in on a role.
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, Billy Hercules as Leaf Phoenix. Kyle Cleaver as Leaf Phoenix. Doug Roberts as Leaf Phoenix. Show all 7 episodes. Pagey Fisher as Leaf Phoenix.
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Self - Interviewee. Self - Guest. Self - Inherent Vice. His work in this summer blockbuster, directed by Ridley Scott , netted him nominations for many of the acting profession's most prestigious awards, including the Oscars.
That same year, Phoenix continued to demonstrate his range as a performer, playing a slick operator in The Yards , opposite Mark Wahlberg , and French religious official Abbe Coulmier in Quills , about the institutionalized writer Marquis de Sade.
Working with director M. He took the lead for his next collaboration with Shyamalan, The Village , playing a young man who puts his small community at risk by exploring the mysterious woods that surround his town. By this time, Phoenix had become known for his tendency to immerse himself completely in the lives of his characters. Phoenix outdid himself in his next major role, undergoing even more extensive preparation to play one of country music's greatest stars, Johnny Cash , in Walk the Line Phoenix had to learn to sing and play the guitar like Cash for the role, which took nearly six months of lessons from the film's executive music producer, T-Bone Burnett.
His co-star, Reese Witherspoon , went through her own rigorous musical training to sing like June Carter Cash , Johnny's wife. To stay in character, Phoenix asked everyone on set to call him "J. Widely praised by critics, the film and its stars netted numerous nominations and awards.
Bringing the hard-living Cash to the big screen took its toll on the young actor. After filming ended, Phoenix went into rehab for issues related to alcohol. I basically went to a country club where they didn't serve alcohol. In , Phoenix reunited with Wahlberg for the gritty urban tale We Own the Night , in which they played brothers on opposite sides of the law.
In that year's Reservation Road , he starred as a father who loses his son in a hit-and-run accident. In February , Phoenix made headlines with a strange appearance on David Letterman 's Late Show , leading fans to wonder about the actor's mental state. The interview, full of awkward pauses and low mumbling, encouraged Letterman to make several jokes about the actor's seeming lack of awareness.
The actor briefly forgot the name of his Two Lovers co-star, Paltrow, stuck gum under Letterman's desk and appeared to swear at bandleader Paul Shaffer for laughing at him during the show.
Around this same time, Phoenix announced his retirement from acting and revealed plans to release a rap album. The films begin with relationships and interactions and moments between characters so lived in that the means by which we get from one shore of the movie to the other the plot can be less personal—and, in this case, lightly borrowed from elsewhere.
As well, Phoenix and his partner, Rooney Mara, had their first child, River. And as it happens, so did my wife and I; our kids are one month apart. Mills seems amused, knowing what was coming for us. It would only grow more insane.
It would consume us to an ever greater degree. That was, of course, what his film was about. Toward the end of our time together, I ask Mills a litany of questions on this topic that unfortunately amount to: Why do you suppose people still have children? He is mystified at the thought of his child. Confused and in love. Confronted by a failure of language in face of that thing. Again, this is what he wanted to make a movie about.
I ask Mills, given that feeling he described of being lost for a while, how he knows where to focus his creative energy, how he knows how to navigate within the movie-making system, and, more generally, how he thinks one is meant to live a creative life in the world right now. Nothing good happens—or nothing very productive—when I start thinking, like, how to operate in the world, or how to be in the world, and impact in the world.
All of that is very important, like really important. But as a creative person, when I start thinking that way, it just fucks me.
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