Their efforts failed, however, and River was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead in the early hours of October Later, Joaquin's anguished call was played and replayed by the media, only compounding his grief.
A wave of films soon followed. In the romantic drama Inventing the Abbotts , he was paired up onscreen with Liv Tyler. That coupling evolved into an off-screen relationship. Phoenix then worked with director Oliver Stone on the neo-noir thriller U-Turn Despite having a strong cast, which included Sean Penn and Claire Danes , the film was a box office dud. The following year, Phoenix earned raves for his performance as an American imprisoned in Malaysia on drug charges and facing the death penalty in Return to Paradise Vince Vaughn and David Conrad co-starred as friends who must decide whether to return to the country and acknowledge their roles in the crime.
Another pairing with Vaughn, Clay Pigeons , failed to attract much notice from critics or movie-goers. In , Phoenix nearly stole the Roman epic Gladiator from star Russell Crowe with his turn as the twisted, jealous emperor Commodus. His work in this summer blockbuster, directed by Ridley Scott , netted him nominations for many of the acting profession's most prestigious awards, including the Oscars.
That same year, Phoenix continued to demonstrate his range as a performer, playing a slick operator in The Yards , opposite Mark Wahlberg , and French religious official Abbe Coulmier in Quills , about the institutionalized writer Marquis de Sade.
Working with director M. He took the lead for his next collaboration with Shyamalan, The Village , playing a young man who puts his small community at risk by exploring the mysterious woods that surround his town. By this time, Phoenix had become known for his tendency to immerse himself completely in the lives of his characters. Phoenix outdid himself in his next major role, undergoing even more extensive preparation to play one of country music's greatest stars, Johnny Cash , in Walk the Line Phoenix had to learn to sing and play the guitar like Cash for the role, which took nearly six months of lessons from the film's executive music producer, T-Bone Burnett.
His co-star, Reese Witherspoon , went through her own rigorous musical training to sing like June Carter Cash , Johnny's wife. To stay in character, Phoenix asked everyone on set to call him "J. Widely praised by critics, the film and its stars netted numerous nominations and awards. Bringing the hard-living Cash to the big screen took its toll on the young actor. After filming ended, Phoenix went into rehab for issues related to alcohol. I basically went to a country club where they didn't serve alcohol.
In , Phoenix reunited with Wahlberg for the gritty urban tale We Own the Night , in which they played brothers on opposite sides of the law. In that year's Reservation Road , he starred as a father who loses his son in a hit-and-run accident.
A moment later his new name was Leaf. In some ways, his early roles as Leaf Phoenix set the tone for his career. In an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, for instance, he played a deaf rich boy who witnesses a murder and hatches a plan to blackmail the murderer. With the success of the Rob Reiner-directed boyhood drama Stand by Me in , River was catapulted to stardom and the family became a minor media sensation.
He later gained back He came off as eccentric and hyperactive. He took a brief ride on a motorized skateboard and once fell to the floor to examine a tiny black bug. He wants more people to care about world peace. Phoenix says he first understood the power of acting while playing a role in Hill Street Blues in It felt incredible. He pauses to consider his own story. You really had a knowing of what the fuck you were? Dissatisfied with life in Los Angeles, the Phoenixes moved back to Florida, settling in Gainesville, and River bought the family a ranch in Costa Rica.
River began tutoring his younger brother about cinema. And Woody Allen comedies. Not long after, he recalls his brother making a strange prediction. When he was 16, Phoenix says, he was sent a dead frog in the mail to dissect for his biology studies, which prompted him to discontinue his studies. Phoenix says that he and his siblings were not frequent denizens of clubs like the Viper Room. His brother had gone there in , and reportedly stayed in hopes of playing music.
The family grieved in private for months. The casting assistant on the film, Meredith Tucker, still says his audition was the best she has ever seen.
He has a primal power that radiates vulnerability and a kind of tragic presence. Smoking a cigarette on the shaded patio behind his home, his dogs running in and out of the dog door, he considers his response to those inquiries over the years.
Nonetheless, his role as Cash defined him as an actor with an uncanny power to subsume himself in a role. At all. But the topic of River remains sensitive.
Not even Phillips, who became good friends with Phoenix over the course of making Joker, ever felt comfortable enough to bring it up. He understood her need to communicate her experience.
But he considers the entertainment value of maintaining the ruse. To this day, some people believe he went through a personal meltdown a few years ago. Phoenix says his lawyers advised him not to discuss the allegations against Affleck, who settled the suits in Last year, Phoenix told Xan Brooks from The Guardian that he was sympathetic to victims of power imbalances and expressed regret at not having been more vocal about abuses of power he witnessed in the past.
Three or four years. Nowadays the line between fiction and reality has never been more porous. Phillips is sensitive but fatalistic about the topic of copycat violence. When he took on the role, Phoenix says, he had to determine whether he could bring complexity and humanity to an ostensibly evil person.
It allows us to feel good if we can identify that as evil. Or whatever it may be. Whatever issues you may have. This malevolent person. I think that we are capable as an audience to see both of those things simultaneously and experience them and value them. These films? The experience of making this movie.
He has made most of his fortune with his career in acting, producing, direction, and in music. Apart from works in acting, he earned well as a director of many music videos, also served with acts comprising Albert Hammond Jr. Joaquin Phoenix is one of those actors whose achievement of prestigious awards enhanced his fame to the next level, which was originally spread globally.
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