There are very few actors in Hollywood today as dedicated to their craft as Joaquin Phoenix. In heavy roles such as Commodus in Gladiator, the tortured Batman villain in Joker, and possibly the most anxious man alive in Beau Is Afraid,

While recently preparing for an interview with Joaquin Phoenix during the Los Angeles press day for his new 2025 movie Eddington, I took notice of a special aspect of his filmography. His latest film is his second time working with writer/director Ari Aster,

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is gesturing to a room where, conjuring a bit of movie magic, he made Joaquin Phoenix fall through a roof, onto the bones of Geronimo.

While Joker was the first time that Phoenix has taken home an Oscar, he had been shortlisted three times for the high-honors award. One of the most impressive aspects of Phoenix's performance is his capacity to completely become a character to the extent that he merges with it completely—a trademark of method acting.

Joaquin Phoenix told Stephen Colbert on the July 15 episode of 'The Late Show' that his infamous 2009 interview with the show's former host David Letterman was 'just one of the worst nights of my life.

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