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| | Rooney Mara is expecting her second child with Joaquin Phoenix | | Added 60 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Guess who?s knocked up again?? Rooney Mara appeared at the Berlin Film Festival to promote her latest film, La Cocina, and she revealed her bump at the premiere. Rooney is still with Joaquin Phoenix and they might even be married (he?s referred to Rooney as his wife in a couple of interviews). They welcomed their son River in 2020, which surprised me because I thought that was just last year or something. But no, they have a three-and-a-half year old running around the house and now a second one on the way. By the way, Rooney?s maternity sack dress is amazing. I love maternity sack dresses, they always look so comfortable.
As for her film, La Cocina is based on Arnold Wesker?s play The Kitchen. The film is directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios and Variety called it ?an anti-food-p-rn movie.? Alonso said: ?I wanted to show the other side of the food industry where expediency is more important than the quality of the food. It?s a metaphor for corporate capitalism.? At Rooney?s festival press conference, she spoke about how she chooses projects nowadays, which is to choose by directors only.
I used to sort of worry about Rooney & Joaquin?s relationship and wonder if they drove each other crazy with their weirdness and idiosyncrasies but over the course of their eight-year-long relationship, I think Rooney has stabilized him completely. They live quietly in the Hollywood Hills, they make vegan food together, they watch Netflix and mind their business. And now they?ll soon have two kids!
Photos courtesy of Cover Images and Avalon Red.
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| | Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara welcomed a son, they named him River | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix got together in late 2016/early 2017. They moved quickly, but since they rarely talk about their relationship, people don?t really know that. They moved in together quickly, they started raising dogs together, and they seemed super-serious immediately. We?ve heard stories about how maybe they?re engaged, and it wouldn?t surprise me at all if they had gotten secretly married at some point. Then in May, we heard that Rooney was pregnant and ?far along.? Turns out, she absolutely was pregnant. Rooney and Joaquin welcomed a baby boy recently. They named him River, after Joaquin?s beloved late brother.
Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are first time parents! According to director Victor Kossakovsky, the couple welcomed a son just last month and have named him River.
Victor revealed the happy baby news during the 2020 Zurich Film Festival over the weekend during a Q&A session with the audience following a screening of Gunda. Joaquin is an executive producer on the film.
Joaquin and Rooney seem to have chosen the name River in honor of his elder brother, who passed away in 1993 from a drug overdose.
[From JustJared]
When I posted this on Twitter, I was a little bit surprised by the outpouring of emotion for the news. People of our generation (I would say younger Gen Xers, Xennials and older Millennials) remember River Phoenix with such fondness. River had already arrived, he was already considered the best actor of his generation when he passed away. And? Joaquin was there the night he passed away. Joaquin called 911. Joaquin barely spoke about his brother in interviews, but I did notice that there was some softening around the subject of his family a lot during Joaquin?s Oscar campaign for Joker. Remember that 60 Minutes interview? Joaquin spoke about River and his mom and sisters also went on camera. *sob*
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| | Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix are expecting their first child & she's far along' | | Added 3 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have been together for more than three years. They had known each other for years and been friendly. But then they seemed to have gotten together romantically while working on Mary Magdalene (Joaquin played Jesus) and they never looked back. They live together, they raise dogs together, they are hipster vegan environmentalists together and now? they?re having a baby together. Can I just say? I don?t hate this??
Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are expecting their first child together, a source exclusively confirmed to Page Six. The very private pair have been keeping a low profile during the pandemic and have been quarantining at their home in Los Angeles. The source tells us that Mara, who has recently been spotted wearing baggy clothes to cover her bump, may be as far as six months along in her pregnancy.
Meanwhile, reps for both Mara, 35, and Phoenix, 45, have refused to respond to numerous requests for comment from Page Six.
The couple originally met on the set of Spike Jonze film the film ?Her,? but did not begin dating until they were reunited on the set of the film ?Mary Magdalene.? Page Six exclusively revealed when he was playing Jesus and she starred as Mary Magdalene in the 2018 movie. They moved in together to a home in the Hollywood Hills.
[From Page Six]
Six months along? It could be. The last time she was at an event was during the compressed awards season in January and early February. She quietly attended all of the awards shows with Joaquin, as he swept the season for Best Actor gongs for Joker. If she was pregnant then, it would have been very early on and she was barely showing. For what it?s worth, Rooney and Joaquin seem like they?re perfect for each other and they genuinely love each other, so that?s really nice? I can?t believe she might be six months along though!
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
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| | Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor BAFTA & wants to dismantle systemic racism | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Joaquin Phoenix picked up yet another Best Actor award at last night?s BAFTAs. No surprise there, just as there are no surprises in any of the acting categories. As I?ve said before, Joaquin even seems to be playing the awards-season game this year, perhaps because he doesn?t want to be so grumpy, perhaps for other reasons. I theorized that Joaquin was leaning into the Bummer Oscar Campaign, wherein he uses the awards season to raise awareness of the issues he cares about deeply, like environmentalism, veganism, sustainability, etc. He?s made references to those issues at previous awards shows. But let me tell you? at the BAFTAs, Joaquin SNAPPED. And it wasn?t about veganism either. Bro snapped about white supremacy and racism in the film industry. He truly got up at the Royal Albert Hall and spoke about how it?s white people?s responsibility to dismantle the white power structures and white supremacy that infects everything. He told the audience:
?I feel conflicted because so many of my fellow actors that are deserving don?t have that same privilege. I think that we send a very clear message to people of color that you?re not welcome here. I think that?s the message that we?re sending to people that have contributed so much to our medium and our industry, and in ways that we benefit from. I don?t think anybody wants a handout or preferential treatment, although that?s what we give ourselves every year. I think people just want to be acknowledged, appreciated and respected for their work.
This is not a self-righteous condemnation because I?m ashamed to say that I?m part of the problem. I have not done everything in my power to ensure that the sets I work on are inclusive, but I think it?s more than just having sets that are multicultural. We have to do the hard work to truly understand systemic racism. I think it is the obligation of the people that have created and perpetuate and benefit from a system of oppression to be the ones that dismantle it. So that?s on us.?
[From Deadline]
I mean? on one side, Joaquin is winning awards for a movie which was exploitative of the ?damaged white man? trope and how easily those damaged white men turn to violence (and are celebrated for it). On the other side, it?s a fking starting point. I appreciate that he is properly ashamed of his lack of movement to ensure more diverse/inclusive films. I appreciate that he?s telling the white people in the audience ?this is on US.? Here?s the
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| | Joaquin Phoenix walked out of an interview when asked about 'Joker' inspiring incels | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Joaquin Phoenix does not enjoy doing press. It is known. No one can expect Joaquin to spill his guts and give some kind of in-depth interview as promotion. He?s just not that guy. But what happens when he?s the lead character and the film is ?controversial? because it seems like an apologia to white male terrorists? Well, Joaquin still isn?t going to answer your questions. So it is with Joker, the ?origin story? of the villain from the Batman universe. Joker has already gone through the Venice Film Festival (where it won the Golden Lion) and TIFF. The festival reviews were actually pretty good, but literally everyone writing about the movie has repeatedly pointed out the problem: that Joker seems like Incel: The Movie.
So Joaquin is the star of this film which may or may not have an extremely problematic message, a film which may or may not inspire white dudes to feel even more aggrieved about how they are misunderstood and sad that they don?t run everything, and that they too should turn to violence. Will Joaquin be able to answer questions about these difficult subjects with any kind of nuance and thoughtfulness? Or will he? walk out of an interview the first time a journalist asks him about all of that? The latter. Joaquin walked out an interview with The Telegraph the minute he was asked about whether the film could end up inspiring white-bro violence. Because the Telegraph is paywalled, here?s Gizmodo?s summary/excerpt:
Because Todd Phillips? Joker tells the relatively grounded story of a disaffected white man who goes on a terroristic rampage because he feels as if he?s been dealt a bad hand in life, there?s been an ongoing discussion about whether the movie has the potential to inspire certain viewers to model themselves (idealistically) after the titular villain.
While the Joker movie is meant to be a critique of people like its central character, it?s easy to see how it could also be interpreted as a celebration of them?but, apparently, that idea never quite occurred to Joaquin Phoenix or Warner Bros. During a recent interview for a profile in the Telegraph, Phoenix allegedly stopped the conversation dead in its tracks after being asked whether he?d given any thought to the possibility that audiences might take the wrong message away from the movie. Rather than stopping to mull the question over, Phoenix simply left, much in the same way he was alleged to often do while shooting the film itself. From the Telegraph:
?Yet Phoenix doesn?t seem to have considered this kind of question at all. So when I put it to him ? aren?t you worried that this film might perversely end up inspiring exactly the kind of people it?s about, with potentially tragic results? ? his fight-or-flight response kicks in. Mine too, just about.
It takes an hour?s peace-brokering with a Warner Bros PR to get things back on track. Phoenix panicked, he later explains, because the question genuinely hadn?t crossed his mind before ? then asks me, not for the last time, what an intelligent answer might have sounded like.?
And no, Phoenix never answered the question.
[From Gizmodo]
?It takes an hour?s peace-brokering with a Warner Bros PR to get things back on track. Phoenix panicked, he later explains, because the question genuinely hadn?t crossed his mind before.? For the love of God. First off, just how fking ?difficult? is Joaquin Phoenix that he would walk out of an interview and refuse to come back for AN HOUR while the studio publicist negotiated with him and the Telegraph journalist? And all because Joaquin was asked a fairly mundane question about the film?s message? Every review coming out of Toronto and Venice brought up this idea that the film could inspire white terrorists and that it could be interpreted as an apologia to toxic white men. It was a BIG conversation. But Joaquin is like a babe in the woods he never heard any of that, I guess. Yeah, right.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Star: Joaquin Phoenix is almost broke, but still spending $5 million a year | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Joaquin Phoenix has been getting photographed every few months in LA this year. He?s not working, but he seems to be keeping busy, taking martial arts classes and picking up cigarettes and energy drinks. Whenever I see pap photos of him, he seems to be doing well enough. But he hasn?t worked in more than a year. His last film was Woody Allen?s Irrational Man, which filmed in the summer of 2014. While Joaquin has flirted with signing on to some big projects ? like Doctor Strange, which Marvel really wanted ? nothing has really happened. And now Star Magazine says that Joaquin?s finances are in shambles and he needs to stop being so picky and/or shady.
Joaquin Phoenix is in talks to play Jesus in a new movie, but he needs divine intervention to turn around his finances!
?Joaquin needs to make $5 million a year to support his lifestyle, and so far this year he?s made zero,? an insider says, explaining that his attitude has so far cost him Jared Leto?s role in Suicide Squad, Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman and even the lead in the Doctor Strange flick out this November.
?Getting him to sign on the dotted line is a nightmare,? says an industry insider. ?He?ll drag out the salary negotiations for months, which holds up production and costs the studios more money in the end.?
Not he?s hoping to get back in the black by playing the son of God in a Mary Magdalene flick costarring Rooney Mara.
?Joaquin is confident he?ll get the part, but it?s not a done deal,? tattles the friend. ?If he starts insisting on things like a feng-shui?d trailer and an on-call vegan chef plus an insane $15 million paycheck, he?s going to lose this role too. And that could mean he?ll be completely out of money by the end of the year.?
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
I never really think of Joaquin as a demanding diva or a money-strapped spendthrift. Is he temperamental? Sure. Does he believe his indie street cred would be damaged by taking roles in comic book movies? Probably. But is he the guy who blows through $5 million a year? Eh. Is he the guy who spends months arguing for bigger and bigger paychecks? Eh. My guess is that Joaquin argues for more money on films he really doesn?t want to do. Also: while the Doctor Strange thing has been verified, I didn?t know Joaquin was up for the Joker and Lex Luthor. Did he really say no to all three parts? Yikes. He would have been a much better and creepier Joker than Jared Leto.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Emma Stone in Giambattista Valli at 'Irrational Man' premiere: cute or blah' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from last night?s LA premiere of Irrational Man, the Woody Allen film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey. Those three came out for the premiere and I have to say? I think all three looked pretty great for who they are. You know? Joaquin made an effort to look presentable and while he wore his Chucks, I feel like he was freshly showered and wearing some nicer clothes. Parker Posey is one of my forever girl-crushes and I think she looks amazing in the animal print.
As for Emma? stylistically, I kind of wonder if she?s in a style rut. She wore this Giambattista Valli Resort 2016 dress which is perfectly pretty, but it seems like something she?s worn a million times before. She goes for pale, tea-length dresses too often. I?m adding a closeup of Emma so you can see her makeup too ? winged blue eyeliner.
After the premiere/screening, Parker and Emma hung out and did a Q&A session with fans. They both heaped praise on Woody Allen, and Parker even went so far as to say that she cried after Woody offered her a role: ?I broke down in tears. I was overcome. I pine for parts ? I want to play these parts, and I?ve been really bitter about not being in a Woody Allen movie for a long time!? It?s weird that Parker in particular has never been in a Woody Allen before now ? she seems tailor-made for Woody Allen films, and she?s mined the neurotic-New-Yorker characters for most of her career.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Joaquin Phoenix announces he's engaged to his yoga instructor | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Well this is an unexpected development. Joaquin Phoenix visited David Letterman last night to promote Inherent Vice. The two started kicking back anecdotes and talking about back pain. As one does. Then Joaquin started talking about a bizarre yoga class experience where he was attempting the “harnessing the hog” position. Huh. Hatha yoga must have really changed since I was involved a handful of years ago. Is this a real yoga position? Joaquin attempts to replicate the position in the video for Dave, and it looks like a joke.
What wasn’t a joke? Joaquin dropped a bomb on Letterman. Dude says he’s engaged to his yoga instructor now. I’d suspect him of joking about that too, but Dave completely schooled Joaquin after that Andy Kaufman-esque appearance from way back. Joaquin knows better than to pull the rug out from Dave again. I guess Joaquin broke up with his 20-year-old DJ girlfriend, Allie Teilz. Now he’s found his lady for life:
“First we do these breathing exercises and I go, ‘I can do this’?and then she says we are going to get in the first position — the “harnessing of the hog,’” Phoenix recalled of first meeting his now-fiance. “Before I can say, ‘Who is the hog?’ She grabs me — and it’s a compromising and vulnerable position ? and she gets a strap and puts it [around me] and she’s thrusting [against] me and I go, ‘Oh, no! My back pain!’ And she goes, ‘No, that’s your emotional back pain … This is the crazy part of the story. We started dating, and I think she’s the one. I proposed to her and she said yes. If everything works out [Im getting married].”
[From The Late Show with David Letterman]
So who’s the lucky lady? Joaquin has not confirmed the identity of his yoga instructor, but he once dated a yogi named Aria Crescendo. This was way back in 2010 before DJ Allie. You can see Aria’s yoga poses on Facebook. She very closely resembles DJ Allie. Dude definitely has a type. Anyway, there is buzz that Joaquin is back with Aria, but it might not be true. He could have proposed to any random yoga instructor. God only knows.
Here’s Joaquin last week in Beverly Hills. Seriously, those socks.
Photos courtesy of Aria Crescendo on Facebook, Fame/Flynet & WENN
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| | Joaquin Phoenix still suffers 'debilitating, terrifying' anxiety on movie sets | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Joaquin Phoenix has a new interview with Playboy to promote Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. It’s been awhile since I’ve read a Playboy interview that wasn’t a breezy, 20-questions column, and this sucker is long and detailed. You can read the whole thing here. These excerpts are the more interesting ones. At one point, Joaquin seems defensive (when talking about his philosophy on death), but it was right after the journo pressed him for information on Philip Seymour Hoffman. Joaquin declined to answer the question, and then the journo brought up how Joaquin witnessed his brother’s untimely death. Rude.
Joaquin covers a lot of ground here, including a few words on the his Doctor Strange casting that fell apart. That’s for the best. Joaquin doesn’t do well for extended publicity runs. Can you imagine him dealing with a Comic-Con atmosphere? He’d be a wreck. Joaquin also confirms that David Letterman definitely wasn’t in on the joke during that Andy Kaufman-life appearance. Yeah, Dave was irritated to not be invited to the party. Let’s do this:
On that awkward Letterman appearance: “David Letterman was not in on the joke. My agents, my publicist Sue Patricola–she?s really good in the movie because she seems so concerned, right?–they were all in on it, of course. But look, David Letterman is one of the smartest guys on television. There?s no way that guy doesn?t know what?s going on in some way. That?s what I?ll say about it.”
On being recognized in public: “It?s like when you notice somebody walk past you, then stop and turn around. I started to realize it?s the same thing that sometimes happens to attractive women. When someone is shuffling back and forth, it makes me uneasy. I?m definitely not interested. But if somebody comes up and goes, ‘Hey, how are you? My name is so-and-so’–great. I?ll rap with you. If you?re genuine in your curiosity about something, that?s great. But that sycophantic energy is uncomfortable to be around. Nobody wants to experience that. A woman came up the other day in a store and said, ‘I?m really sorry, but can we take a picture?’ I said, ‘You know what? I don?t do that, but thanks so much for coming up. I mean, I?m here with two of my friends and you?re alone and came up and said hi. That was really brave of you.’ Whatever energy she had was gone instantly. We chatted a bit. It was fun. Then she went and bought her f—ing tube socks and I bought my stupid little sweatpants, and that was it.”
His experience with the Children of God cult: “As I understand it, you?re on the outside of that group until you?re accepted. I don?t think we ever got to that point, because frankly, as it got closer, I think my parents went, ‘Wait a minute. This is more than a religious community. There?s something else going on here, and this doesn?t seem right.’ And so they left very early on. I think it was really innocent on my parents? part. They really believed, but I don?t think most people see it that way. I?ve always thought that was strange and unfair.”
His rumored refusal to wear leather on set: “I don?t know where that came from, because in Walk the Line there were definitely some vintage boots, and I?m sure there was leather in Gladiator too. I don?t wear leather in my life, but with movies, there are some things I struggle with, like if there are budget constraints or a particular vintage thing they need. For food on set, vegan is pretty common now. There are veggie burgers at f—ing fast-food restaurants and sh-t. So I think people are pretty good with that.”
His theories on the afterlife: “I don’t have a f—ing clue, man. I mean, Jesus f—. If you told me I’m a f—ing video game that some aliens are playing somewhere, well, that seems totally plausible to me. Hey, you and I might be some kind of simulation from someone 200 years in the future. I don?t f—ing know. I mean, anybody’s theory seems plausible. So I say, let go, man. Just let go.”
He still freaks out on set: “No, I still find it terrifying, and that?s crazy, isn?t it? In some ways, it?s f—ing ridiculous that I?ve literally been doing it for 30 years and still feel like it?s the f—ing first time I?m making a movie every time I go in. It?s probably good, though, just because it means I still care and it matters so much to me. But I think it?s a motivating anxiety and fear, as opposed to a debilitating one. Maybe sometimes it?s debilitating, and it can get in the way. Hopefully I?ve gotten better at not fighting it, knowing it?s there and just allowing myself to walk with my fear.”
On “turning down” Doctor Strange: “I can?t talk about it. I?ve met on all sorts of movies throughout the years. What seems appealing about some of them is the idea of pushing myself in a way that?s out of my comfort zone. But really, it?s what I?m always looking for–good characters, big ideas and a passionate filmmaker. If those things line up with any kind of movie, I have interest in it. I thought Iron Man was fantastic.”
[From Playboy]
The journo also asked about Joaquin’s 20-year-old DJ girlfriend, and he deflects by saying, “Relationships are difficult, so adding public awareness is probably not a good thing.” I still feel pretty uncomfortable seeing them in public together. But I love that Joaquin isn’t full of himself and still questions his abilities as an actor. He’s not sitting there with “steepled hands” mulling over his “craft.” Dude just shows up and does his job. Maybe he spends a few moments curled up in fetal position before the cameras roll, but he works it out.
Photos courtesy of WENN
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| | Joaquin Phoenix takes his sweet-looking pit bull for a walk in LA: adorable? | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m just writing about this Joaquin Phoenix photos because of the dog! I know you won?t mind. While I?ve known for a long time that Joaquin is an animal-rights activist, I didn?t know that he actually lived a quiet life in LA with at least one dog. Now that I?ve done some cursory research, I know he lives in LA with two dogs. One of them is this pit bull (or pit mix?) in these photos. The second dog looks like another pit or pit mix ? go here to see. This puppy looks sweet to me. I know some people have an aversion to pits because of the belief that pits are more violent or whatever, but I?ve always believed it?s more about the dog-owner than the dog. Joaquin?s pit looks like a good dog? except maybe he/she is a bolter. I know that alert-earred dog face. That?s a face that says ?take me off the leash, I want to chase after something!?
As for Joaquin?s future projects?the only thing he?s got coming out next year (so far) is that Woody Allen movie he did with Emma Stone. He also has Inherent Vice out this year, and some people think that the film is deserving of an Oscar campaign. Most of the reviews I?ve seen are more like ?it?s a weirdly brilliant and messy film and it won?t win anything? though. As for the persistant rumors about Joaquin and Doctor Strange, the rumors were revisited on Friday with a new article on The Wrap. The Wrap?s sources claimed that Marvel still wanted Phoenix and he was still in the mix, but Joaquin?s rep went to The Wrap and said the Marvel talks are ?dead dead dead. A couple of weeks ago they mutually decided to part ways. It was over before the New York Film Festival.? Yeah, Joaquin doesn’t want to be part of a Marvel franchise. At all.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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