Hoax Or Not, Unarapper Joaquin Phoenix Is Acting Like A Jerk - Page 3
I was exhausted at the end of the day, slightly in shock that I'd spent the last hour being grilled by Casey Affleck, and more sure than ever that, whatever else is going on, we're not being punk'd by Joaquin Phoenix. Whether it's drugs talking, or an actual nervous breakdown, or a Britney-esque desire to distance himself as much as possible from his matinee idol potential, Phoenix feels everything he's doing as genuinely as we might have thought he felt his characters in his movies. Acting isn't really him, he told us, but this-- whatever this is-- is real. For lack of a better option, I choose to believe him.
Where do you start?
I realize that many actors probably do hate promoting movies. It has always seemed to me to be one of the worst parts of the job...going to show after show after show, being asked the same questions, giving out the same answers, smiling the whole time and acting like this is the first time you've been asked. But then I stop and think...uh, they're being chauffeured to these interviews by limousines (or at least really nice cars), they have personal assistants who keep track of their every move so that they don't have to think but just show up, they're being pampered and coddled and treated like royalty because they look pretty and can act, they sit on a stool or in a chair and answer questions for a few minutes, and at the end of the day they can drown their sorrows in a nice expensive bottle of champagne while feasting on a delicious dinner in a four-star restaurant and go to sleep in a comfortable bed in a luxury hotel. Wow. I can see how that would get so depressingly difficult after a while. All those people who do things like work factory jobs or do open heart surgery or operate on orphans or waitress tables all day need to shut up whining, this is real super hard work. I mean, yeah, it probably does get kind of boring and tedious after a while, but come on. There are worse things in the world you could be doing with your day than promoting a movie.
And what is this blurb about how you talk about an emotional connection to your character when you're trying to get nominated for awards? He was nominated for an Oscar and won an Golden Globe for Walk The Line, portraying none other than the great Johnny Cash (who gave his nod to Joaquin to play him). Johnny Cash would be turning over in his grave if he knew what Joaquin said about "emotional connection":
Cash similarly established a mutual appreciation late in life with actor Joaquin Phoenix, the star of one of his favorite movies at the time. "Cash loved 'Gladiator,' " Mangold recently remembered. "He knew all the lines. Continued on the next page
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