Hoax Or Not, Unarapper Joaquin Phoenix Is Acting Like A Jerk - Page 5
So Johnny Cash trusted that Joaquin would portray him well, was a fan of his movies, and took the time to compliment him, and then Joaquin turns around and basically slaps the Man In Black in the face with the comment:
[...] but also trashed acting in general, saying that talking about your emotional connection to your character is just something you say "when you're trying to get nominated."
Brilliant. Great career move, Unarapper. Keep this up and you'll burn all your bridges. Now, all of this is assuming he's trying to jerk us around. If he isn't, I sincerely hope he does get help before he flushes his life down the toilet. But...you'd think his own BIL wouldn't be filming him if Joaquin was seriously ill, right? Have they cooked this up behind closed doors, with Joaquin speaking full and coherent sentences? Maybe, maybe not? After all, people around Britney had a hard time believing she was mentally ill.
Which brings me to this: Joaquin hates promoting movies (and, judging from his recent performance on Letterman, isn't shy about showing it), but he's all too happy to take the money paid to him to make those movies. He gets all kinds of money to show up and act and to sell these movies to the ticket-buying public. No, not everybody can act, and it is a skill honed through years of hard work, and I'm not at all putting down actors who are devoted to their craft...but top-tier actors do get paid an embarrassing amount of money. You go out and see one of his movies or buy one of his DVDs, and you're basically funding his Unarapper Manifesto. If this is truly some sort of emotional breakdown, drug-related haze, or whatever sort of mental problem he might have slipped into (and don't forget, he has been in rehab, and backsliding is not unheard of), then he needs for someone to get him some help, not film him for a documentary. If this is truly a hoax and he's just faking the whole thing...well, basically, he's telling his fans, "Screw you. But thanks for giving me a buttload of money so I can then turn around and insult you and punk y'all with this fake act." If I were a fan of Joaquin and Casey, and this does turn out to be a hoax, I wouldn't be a fan for long, I can tell you that.
He's a bad boy, he's a bit of a hippie, he's a free spirit, he wants to be his own man? He wants to be a musician and not an actor? Fine, great...you can be any or all those things and still not act like a jerk. Only time will tell if Joaquin is truly in the throes of a breakdown, a la Britney, or if he's just playing a huge joke on us all, a la Andy Kaufman. I guess we'll have to wait until he shaves his head (or his beard) or starts wrestling bears to find out. But, by that time, will anybody care?
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