He’s the subject of a faux-documentary in which he’s supposedly shown succumbing to the usual celebrity down spiral of drugs and loose women. It was originally played off as real, but has since been revealed to be fiction.
Merged Quasimodem’s thread (and the two subsequent posts) into this one.
Casey Affleck says that the mockumentary left him broke during the production, such that he had to break to do another film (The Killer Inside Me) to keep going. He also says he had to finish this film or risk Phoenix’s career being ruined.
Why that reaction? Why do you care so much?
I’m not one to debate the point, but it often seems that some of the most interesting art is designed to provoke extreme emotional reactions. This did. I wonder if the anger and other scorn seen in this thread comes from preferring to believe that Phoenix is crazy than that they were fooled.
And, no one’s career is going to suffer. Phoenix and Affleck are both super-talented, and will be just fine.
I’m not so sure Affleck is being frank there. One of Letterman’s monologue writers gave an interview to NUVO over a year ago in which he revealed the whole Phoenix routine was a setup and that Letterman was very much in on it and in fact enjoyed it immensely. (The writer actually wrote one of Letterman’s gags that he used during the interview).
Everyone else took it seriously? It was my recollection that pretty much everyone thought it was fake. A very small minority took it seriously.
TV Squad’s take on it: http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/09/23/joaquin-phoenix-letterman/?icid=main|main|dl7|sec1_lnk3|172460
I guess, but they do talk about that writer in the interview.
Maybe Lindsey Lohan’s faking too. If not, her publicist can claim she is.
Sampiro, how about this explanation?
“He/she is doing ‘research’ for an upcoming role!”
Why the anger? (answering a post upthread)
I just hate being duped.
Q
Worked for Winona Ryder. Well, kinda sorta.