Cinemablend’s Katey Rich had the pleasure of sitting down with rapper/coked-out of his mind former actor Joaquin Phoenix at a junket recently while his sidekick Casey Affleck and camera crew watched disapprovingly from the corner.
During the awkward interview with Joaquin, in which he in no way mentioned the movie he is being paid to promote (“Two Lovers”), a journalist acknowledged the heavily-bearded elephant in the room by asking Phoenix if his rap career was a put on. This apparently didn’t go over well with Affleck, who after the interview lectured the writers on the normalcy of career changes.
“He came back in, sat us back down, and asked us to explain just why we didn’t believe that his brother-in-law Joaquin was being anything less than genuine,” recalled Rich. She also added that ” at no point did he seem to drop his position that we were the crazy ones, that people change careers all the time…and to prove his point he actually went around the room and had us list all the jobs we’ve had before, and what we really want to be doing.”
Wow, either the hoax has gotten more elaborate with Affleck now playing a the role of the delusional best friend, or this could be the beginning of full-scale movie star meltdown. We are hoping for the later, but something tells us it might just be a weird, semi-hoax.
I don’t think this is a hoax. Joaquin is just batshit crazy. Affleck is probably just trying to protect and exploit him.
It might not be a hoax, as in it won’t happen, but is it very calculated…YES. He’ll probably release some sort of music album, and curiosity, especially with all this hoopla they’ve created, will get some people to check it out. But I’m willing to bet it won’t win over the critics, and eventually Joaquin will get tired of his little game and return to reality. Lets not forget Crispin Glover (who also had an insane Letterman appearance) also released a music album, and of course now you can barely find it.
I love Crispin Glover in concept, but couldn’t hang with that record as hard as I tried. He’s an amazing bit or side player, but he’s a bit much when it’s all about him. I still have yet to see his directed movies and should, but i have like a stack of about 50 films to get to at home, netflix, blockbuster, bootlegs, 30 films taped on DVR, etc. This is why you can prolly understand i don’t watch TV.
Me neither…but the trailer to “What Is It?” freaked me out.
Yes, but Crispin Glover is so much more creative! Clowny clown clown!
i don’t know what this is. i think something is going on with joaquin that he’s not saying. it’s really hard to tell