#DID JOAQUIN PHOENIX LOSE WEIGHT FOR JOKER MOVIE#
In his acceptance speech, he recalled how his late brother River Phoenix (who died from a drug overdose in 1993) had inspired him to become an actor: “When I was 15 or 16 my brother River came home from work and he had a VHS copy of a movie called Raging Bull and he sat me down and made me watch it. While attending TIFF, Phoenix was given a special Tribute award. The couple have been seeing each other for the past year and recently revealed that they are engaged to be married. He is also enjoying what appears to be a serious relationship with actress Rooney Mara. Phoenix was looking happier and more ebullient than ever while promoting the film in Venice and Toronto. You start to go mad when you lose that amount of weight in that amount of time.” Said Phoenix: “The weight loss, as it turns out, affects your psychology. The massive weight loss also caused the actor considerable psychological distress. The star also lost over 50 pounds to play the Joker, whom Phoenix plays as a failed stand-up comedian turned criminal. The character evolved continuously, and the more unpredictable he was, the better it was…I’ve never had a character like this, one who was constantly evolving,” “The man who we see at the beginning of the shooting became totally different at the end.
I never saw him as a purely tormented man – he was so many things.” That’s the side of him I wanted to explore. I was not only interested in his torments but also in his struggle in the pursuit of happiness, in his need to be loved, and to feel connected to the world. “What was interesting is that most of my work involved the search for the light in Arthur. “This has been my most difficult role,” Phoenix says. Interestingly, the 44-year-old actor felt that he needed to focus not on Arthur Fleck/Joker’s tormented nature, but on his more hopeful side. The film is already drawing notice as a possible Oscar contender on the back of Todd Phillip’s brilliant direction and Phoenix’s deeply-layered and tortured interpretation of the classic comic-book character with the clown make-up and maniacal laugh.
Now his resurrection is complete with a bravura turn in Joker, the anti-superhero film that has created a sensation.
Then he came close to self-destructing following an ill-advised attempt to create a fake celebrity version of himself (as part of a documentary concocted by Casey Affleck) and a disastrous 2009 appearance where he mumbled and appeared stoned on David Letterman and during which the latter dismissed him as the “unabomber.”īut Phoenix rose from the ashes with another Oscar-nominated turn in The Master and critically acclaimed performances in Inherent Vice and Irrational Man. He first soared to fame opposite Russell Crowe in The Gladiator and then as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, earning two Oscar nominations in the process. Joaquin Phoenix has long been one of the most enigmatic actors in Hollywood.
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