But I guess I just want to base my decision off my interaction with the person, kind of. Obviously, there are some people, like Ridley -I’d seen Blade Runner and Alien growing up, so I knew those films before we did Gladiator. MITCHELL: Do you want to be surprised when you work with someone? Is that what it is? I want to work with him, so I don’t want to watch the movie.” I don’t know. We had this meeting, and I was like, “I like him.
#Joaquin phoenix to die for movie
I remember doing a movie and the director gave me a DVD of one of his films to watch. JOAQUIN PHOENIX: I actually like it when I’m not really familiar with the director’s work. He’s been away too long.” I had to agree.ĮLVIS MITCHELL: What do you see in movies when you watch them that makes you think, This is a director who I want to work with? Or does that ever occur to you?
After Phoenix exited, Lewis leaned in and said of his old friend, “He’s a great actor-and a good man. He stayed long enough to be late-quite late-for another appointment, and even took a moment to chat up another lunch guest at the Sunset Tower Hotel when he excused himself from the table and bellowed, “You never call, you never write, you skipped my Bar Mitzvah,” as he strode over to give a warm hello to Richard Lewis. So even as Phoenix claimed that he had nothing to say (which was hardly the case), he was generous with his time and did something interview subjects rarely do: easily 20 percent of the conversation was his questioning me. Despite the haze that he created around that film-in which he announced plans to give up acting for a career in hip-hop-Phoenix wants to be understood and in its aftermath, he wants audiences to be surprised by his performances while they’re still current. It may be something that he has in common with Phoenix, who took testing one’s limits to a new level-high or low, depending on your feeling about it-with I’m Still Here (2010), his collaboration with director, best friend, and brother-in-law Casey Affleck. I can’t think of another filmmaker whose work focuses almost entirely on anxiety. ”Īnderson made Phoenix’s eager restlessness central to Freddie-and The Master as well. He simply seems uninterested in pimping himself, and is more prone to dropping his awe of Hoffman or his nervousness about working with Anderson if Phoenix ever writes a Master making-of diary, each entry will likely start with, “Today I’ll probably be fired. But while Phoenix himself can be an evasive talker, his intent does not appear to be slipperiness or obfuscation.
The Master trails Freddie in his search for meaning in postwar America. Phoenix, 37, has made a triumphal return to the movies with his starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s intimate epic, The Master, in which he plays the lost and yearning Freddie Quell, a World War II veteran trying to clear his head when he meets the charismatic Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an author and academic whose oratorical gifts are so silken that he seems to even be hypnotizing himself. The notoriously reticent Phoenix regards me with a chuckle: “Good luck with this conversation,” he says, smiling. When I show up 15 minutes early to meet Joaquin Phoenix for our interview, he is already there-and based on the cigarette butt in the ashtray, he’s been waiting for me for a bit. I want to go into the courtroom and feel like I might lose the case.” – Joaquin Phoenix “That’s one thing I hate more than anything: nailing it.
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