After ‘Beau is afraid’, this is the new film for people over 18 years of age by Joaquin Phoenix, about a homosexual romance

A new horizon opens before the eyes of Joaquin Phoenixafter the premiere of Ari Aster’s latest film, ‘Beau is afraid’, which saw the actor immersing himself fully in a suffocating and surreal plot.

On this occasion, the actor will be directed by Todd Hayneswho has just premiered his latest film, ‘May December’, directed by Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman at the Cannes Film Festival, and who spoke about his project with Phoenix with indiewire during the event.

In his interview with the media, Haynes commented that the script for the film had been developed with the collaboration of the interpreter himself.and.

“The next movie is an original script that I have developed with Joaquin Phoenix, based on some thoughts and ideas that he proposed to me,” Haynes commented. “Basically, we included him as a writer of the story. Jon Raymond, Joaquin and I will share the credits of the film.”

“I hope we can shoot it early next year. It’s a gay romance story, set in 1930s Los Angeles.”

True to his fame, the actor seems to have wanted to explore the limits of his character, proposing to Haynes to elevate the plot to a depth that has distanced it from underage audiences.

“Joaquin squeezed me more and more. He told me: ‘No, we are going to go further’. It is going to be a film for people over 18 years of age,” commented the filmmaker.

The result that both artists have obtained is logical, if one analyzes their filmographies. Phoenix is ​​used to working roles that require intensity and painstaking work; and Haynes, after titles such as ‘Carol’, ‘Far from heaven’, ‘Poison (Poison)’, ‘Velvet Goldmine’, or his latest, ‘May December’, is seasoned in “period” romance and homosexual.

Of his work, Haynes added: “The only thing I can do is commit to each project. I have more movies planned.“

“I also have episodic projects that are pending and are very exciting. I am going to work with Kate Winslet again for something that she has proposed to me with HBO.”

Until the premiere of the film between Haynes and Phoenix arrives, we will have to entertain ourselves by seeing the latest from both creators. ‘Beau is afraid’ has already been released and we have already explained the end of the weirdest and most surreal movie of the year… But, What will we see in ‘May December’, the latest from Haynes?

According to the official synopsis of the project: “Twenty years after the mediatic romance between Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her young husband Joe shocked the country, with their children about to graduate from high school, it is going to shoot a film about her story.Actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) will spend time with the family to try to better understand Gracie, whom she will play in the film, causing the family dynamic to unravel under the pressure of the gaze abroad.”