When Joaquin Phoenix leaves
Joaquin Phoenix, as well as making headlines with the release of the highly anticipated Joker: Folie de duorecently stood out by leaving Todd Haynes’ new film just days before filming began. A project led and co-written by the actor, developed with Todd Haynes over the course of several years and which, faced with the impossibility of finding a replacement for Joaquin Phoenix, was therefore purely and simply cancelled. Christine Vachon, historical producer of Todd Haynes’ films, he spoke of “tragedy” to define this catastrophe.
Joaquin Phoenix, an actor as popular as he is celebrated by critics, is also known for his particular working method and does not have the reputation of being one of the easiest actors to work with. And this isn’t the actor’s first time Walk the line AND Joker abandons a project at the last moment, as James McAvoy recently indicated.
“He left two weeks before filming”
It is in the Happy Sad Confused podcast with which the Scottish actor, currently at the cinema Don’t speak badlyshed light on his casting in M. Night Shyamalan’s hit film Dividedreleased in 2017. If we already knew that Joaquin Phoenix was in pole position at the time to make this thriller about a character suffering from severe dissociative identity disorder, we were not aware of the circumstances that led to his replacement with James McAvoy. He then provided details.
(Joaquin Phoenix) is an amazing actor. He would have given a different performance than me, but an incredible performance. Sometimes arriving at the last minute is the best solution. I think he dropped out two weeks before filming started. It was really last minute. I had a few weeks to prepare. Two weeks. The script was well constructed, so I immediately knew what I wanted to do. It took a little longer to find some characters. Patricia arrived quickly, Hedwig took longer.
In the end, everything ended well for Divided which was a major commercial and critical success. For James McAvoy, then best known for his role as Charles Xavier in the X-Men saga, this “multiple” performance caused his rating to explode. Regarding the sudden departure of Joaquin Phoenix, who had given two extraordinary performances Signs AND The Village by M. Night Shyamalan, there is no doubt that the director must not have appreciated…
Source: Cine Serie
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