UPDATED: JOAQUIN PHOENIX TAKING HIS GUITAR AND GOING HOME?!!
- By David Oliver
- Published 10/28/2008
- News
In a CHUD World Exclusive that we borrowed from Extra, Joaquin Phoenix is apparently done with Hollywood. Like, really. At the recent Paul Newman benefit, Phoenix confirmed a rumor to the TV news show: "I want to take this opportunity... also to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor... I'm not doing films anymore." When pressed by Extra's Jerry Penacoli, the Walk The Line star stated emphatically, "Yeah. I'm working on my music. I'm done. I've been through that." This fact has also reportedly been confirmed by Phoenix's rep. Casey Affelck, who was also at the benefit, absolutely cemented this as an unequivocal fact: "I don't think he's kidding. He's got music and stuff."
Wow. If he really is serious, I'm not sure what to make of it. Because honestly, there's no reason he couldn't do both and have a bang up career behind the mic like Keanu or Russell Crowe or...okay, I see where that line of thought is going. Still, wow.
Thanks to Sabrica for the tip.
UPDATE: VIDEO!!
Thanks to Ben for that.
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Comment #1 (Posted by messi)
He'll be back. Who else is going to give a thumbs up or thumbs down...apart from Darkseid.
Comment #2 (Posted by BurmaShave)
Motherfucker couldn't even play guitar until he learned it for Walk the Line and now he thinks the world deserves to hear his music? Fuck this pretentious fuck. Hey Joaquin call the March of Dimes to get your fucking face fixed.
Comment #3 (Posted by Joshua Massre)
We've heard a lot of actors say they're retiring only to return to acting a few years later.
Comment #4 (Posted by CommentGuy)
I hope he does mean it. He's always so "actie" in his roles, in that self-aware AC-TOR kind of way that so many movie stars tend to affect.
Comment #5 (Posted by imfinished)
I just watched that video. What the hell? It did seem like he was kidding, but what really gets me is the way the "reporter" was. So unprofessional and awkward, he made the whole thing looked staged. And then Pheonix and Affleck being completely deadpan, but sort of nonchalant. I don't know. This reeks of fake, but I'm not sure. Weird. And BurmaShave, you learned to spell words and now you think the world wants to read your comment? What a pretentious fuck! (Really, dude, the guy's a performer, now he wants to switch from acting to music, whatever, that doesn't make him pretentious.)
Comment #6 (Posted by some cunt)
bye wak, thanks for nothing.
see you next year when the $ dries up.
Comment #7 (Posted by Rob)
My dad took me to see 'Gladiator.'...Whenever Joaquin had his hissy-fit on-screen, some guy in the audience saw "aww", which such precise disdane that we all laughed and communally enjoyed the rest of the movie.
Comment #8 (Posted by JoeJoe)
I misread that as "confirmed by Phoenix's rep, Casey Affleck." Which is awesome...
Oh, and goodbye Joaquin... I guess. Anthony Hopkins says good luck.
Comment #9 (Posted by an unknown user)
I think all of y'all probably just got punked. Joaquin is always fucking with the entertainment press. There's that one interview on the red carpet where he talks about having a frog in his head. David Oliver is a goofy son of a bitch.
Comment #10 (Posted by Dookie Mercury)
Just weird I saw him as a kid in Parenthood a couple days ago.
Comment #11 (Posted by River Phoenix)
Quitting is hard little bro, I tried to quit drugs and it didn't work out. See ya soon.
Comment #12 (Posted by Burt Reynolds)
If this is true, I'm going to throw a party. Joaquin Phoenix stunk like shit in "Walk the Line" and I hope he dies of AIDS cancer for making that movie.
Comment #13 (Posted by an unknown user)
Some friends were just discussing actors who don't interest me and I mentioned him. Good luck with all that.
Comment #14 (Posted by JRyan)
I think the name of his band is "Got the Beard but Still Workin on the Morrison Gut from the LA Woman Period"... Either that or, "Tres Douchey."
Comment #15 (Posted by Kubrick Fan)
No shit he's not quitting acting. Of course he'll be back.....i say.......2 years off? Tops.
Comment #16 (Posted by Swampcow)
Wow that is a lot of random bitterness and hate for an actor who is a) not that big and b) not that bad at it.
Comment #17 (Posted by IQ? More like Fuh-Q...)
Is it April Fools Day? Sure are a lot of fools around here. Congrads on the shining intellect of your readership CHUD.
Comment #18 (Posted by anonymous)
Congrats on not being able to spell, Fuh-Q!
