“It simply does not really feel like that will be proper,” says the Joker: Folie à Deux star about dropping out simply 5 days earlier than filming was to start.
Practically a month after it was revealed that Joaquin Phoenix abruptly pulled out of Todd Haynes’ homosexual romance shortly earlier than manufacturing was set to start out, the actor stated that he is declining to share particulars concerning his exit.
Throughout a press convention for Joker: Folie à Deux on the Venice Movie Pageant, Phoenix deflected a query from a reporter who requested in regards to the cause behind his departure from the movie.
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“I believe if I do [speak about the reasoning], I would just be sharing my opinion from my perspective, and the opposite creatives aren’t right here to say their piece, and it simply does not really feel like that will be proper,” Phoenix, 49, stated. “I am unsure how that will be useful. So I do not suppose I’ll.”
Final month, Indiewire reported that Phoenix exited the movie days earlier than it was set to start capturing in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Oscar winner wrote the screenplay with Haynes and Jon Rayman. The untitled detective homosexual romance was set to star Phoenix and Danny Ramirez as two males who fall in love and flee to Mexico.
Sources advised Indiewire that Phoenix will not be anticipated to return to the challenge, and Killer Movies, the manufacturing firm that has produced all of Haynes’ initiatives, will not be making an attempt to recast the position presently, and its essential precedence is paying financers, crewmembers, and extra who have to be compensated.
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Throughout a Could 2023 interview with Indiewire, Haynes spoke about Phoenix’s dedication to the movie, which might have marked his first onscreen homosexual position.
Joaquin was pushing me additional and going ‘No, let’s go additional.’ This will likely be an NC-17 movie,” he stated on the time. “The entire expertise was prompted by Joaquin. It was prompted by his daring, his need to push via boundaries and to actually get into the uncomfortable locations about this relationship. And but it felt like a really natural course of.”
In response to Indiewire, Haynes has shifted his focus to his subsequent challenge, directing the restricted sequence, Belief.
In the meantime, additionally throughout the Joker 2 press convention, Phoenix opened up about present process one other weight reduction transformation whereas reprising his position as Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie à Deux.
“I am not going to speak via specifics of the food regimen, as a result of I simply suppose no person needs to listen to that,” stated the star, who beforehand revealed he misplaced over 50 kilos for the 2019 movie. “However this time, it felt a bit extra difficult simply because there was a lot dance rehearsal that we have been doing, which I did not have final time.”
“So it felt a bit tougher, however it’s secure. However you are proper, I’m now 49, I in all probability shouldn’t do that once more. That is in all probability it for me.”
He went on to share that his costar, Girl Gaga, additionally misplaced weight for the movie. “I bear in mind once I first met you in rehearsals and then you definitely went away and whenever you got here again, you misplaced a variety of weight,” Gaga stated. “It was actually spectacular.”
Phoenix additionally claimed he does not bear in mind how a lot weight he dropped for the sequel, earlier than expressing some remorse over discussing his dramatic transformation for the position throughout press tour for the primary movie.
“I do know I used to be accountable final time for speaking about it, but it surely’s tough to take action that turns into your obsession since you’re working all the time to get to a sure weight,” Phoenix stated. “So then you find yourself speaking about it, after which it simply appears like an actor occurring and on about how a lot weight they misplaced. By the tip of that run I used to be so sick of myself and indignant at myself for making such an enormous deal about that half, since you simply do what you’re f–king presupposed to do. So this time I used to be like, ‘I am not going to do this.'”
Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters on October 4.
