Joaquin Phoenix Changed How Ari Aster Scared Beau: ‘There’s New Life In It’ – Exclusive Image

No matter what he’s into, Joaquin Phoenix is ​​a force of nature on screen. Whether it’s tearing him apart like the Joker or giving some sweet almost-dad vibes Come onor enter the abyss you’ve never really been there, always takes you to unexpected places, even if you are the director of the film. Ari Aster, the director with whom he terrorized the audience Hereditary AND mid summeris back to make everyone think with an intense cinematic odyssey (emphasis on “strange”) handsome is scared, in which Phoenix takes center stage as Beau himself. As it turns out, Phoenix’s unique way of working changed the way meticulous planner Aster approached making his film.

“I struggled to watch movies again; they feel a little dull to me, because we just finished shooting,” says Aster. Empire From Hereditary AND mid summer. With handsome is scaredPhoenix’s penchant for acting on instinct and channeling intuitive energies that day was an opportunity to deviate from Aster’s initial plans and create something new. “Thanks to Joaquín, I think the film seems more alive to me than it could have, because a lot of what he does there came to my mind as emotional surprise: the things I feel in certain scenes are things that he makes me feel, that are beyond what was on the page,” explains the writer-director. “It’s a really wonderful thing, when you can watch the film and it’s not just from memory, because it’s something I’ve been working on for years. There is new life in her; there is something else there.

The result, as well as an almost indescribable, surreal and thrilling journey of a film, looks set to change the way Aster operates in the future. “He IS the best partner you can have,” enthuses Aster, from Phoenix. “He IS the busiest. And just as tortured. Perhaps we all need to embrace chaos.

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