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hazeleyes
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: Canada National Post Interview With Joaquin |
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Here is another interview. I hope it has not been posted. They are starting to look the same to me.
 Canada National Post Interview
'My emotions are completely normal'
Bob Thompson, National Post
Published: Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Usually, Joaquin Phoenix looks like he'd prefer eating shards of glass to speaking with reporters. So it was a rare occasion recently in Los Angeles when the two-time Oscar-nominee actually seemed to be enjoying himself during an interview. That's in stark contrast to his awkwardness at last month's Toronto International Film Festival when he was in town promoting Reservation Road. Opening next Friday, the drama features Phoenix as a father obsessed with tracking down the hit-and-run driver (Mark Ruffalo) who killed his son. Up first for the 32-year-old is We Own the Night, opening on Friday. In it, Phoenix plays a 1980s Queens nightclub manager who gets in deep with the Russian mob. The actor spoke to Bob Thompson about that, the madness to his method and his fall back if he ever quits acting.
Q Is your role in We Own the Night the closest to an action hero part you've had?
A You obviously haven't seen my early work [laughs]. I guess, but I don't really think of this as actiony.
Q But you are in a great rain-soaked car-chase sequence. That counts.
A To you, it's an action scene. To me, it was that time I was on the back of a trailer in a fake car going, "Aaahhh!" It was like "Now they are shooting! More aaahhh!" I always find it really difficult to do that stuff and sell it. Hopefully it feels intense.
Q You are known for intensity, and it shows in We Own the Night and Reservation Road. How do you manage it?
A Any time someone asks me about an approach or a method, I say it's like asking someone who survived a 60-foot fall from a building, "What was your method?" And the response is, "I don't know, I was upside down, and I screamed out loud for my Mom. Then I hit my head and someone said, 'you're wrapped.' "
Q So what are you saying?
A I'm not aware, necessarily, of my particular method. I don't think that there has ever been one thing consistent from movie to movie. There are actors who walk in, hit a line, and they are done. That's amazing. Then there are others who spend a lot of time working on it and it's amazing too.
Q What makes you pursue the films you do?
A It's a way to make money [laughs]. I don't know. I will have no desire to work again, and then I will read a script and suddenly get inspired by a script. Since I finished We Own the Night and Reservation Road, I haven't worked in a year.
Q Both movies are emotionally heavy. Do those pictures reflect where you are personally right now?
A Honestly, how is this year for me different than any other year? It seems like I have been talking for decades about my movies. It's obvious. I want intense because I am. Say you were a mountain climber. Do you want to just walk up the Hollywood Hills, or do you want to climb a steep cliff ? I'm not going to spend three months working on something that is not difficult, or that is not intense. It's just not worth it to me. I would get bored, to be honest.
Q You seem to be in constant turmoil, always wrestling with the craft of acting in movies and especially your job of promoting films? Have you ever thought of quitting the film business?
A I think everybody does. It's ridiculous to say I'd retire. I take a break from it sometimes. You have to want to be on set. I found myself at times, on a movie, in the last few weeks, where I start going, "I want to get out of here. I don't want to wear these clothes anymore. Stop touching my hair." And it gets ridiculous. I remember thinking I can't do this anymore.
Q Is that why you get pegged as being moody?
A I have no idea how people perceive me. I don't read any of my press. I don't watch movies. I think I'm completely normal. [Phoenix pretends to take a drink of water from a bottle but jokingly spills some down his shirt.] To me, my emotions are completely normal.
Q If acting got to be too much, would you ever quit?
A I promised myself, when I was younger, that I would continue to be passionate, and enjoy it, or I wouldn't do it. If I get to the point where I start thinking that way I just won't work.
Q What's your fallback job?
A I can braid hair.
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Ha! Yes they do seem to be but still always something new comes out!
Joaquin's hairdresser's.......
I can think of a few people who would visit that salon!
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Canada National Post Interview With Joaquin |
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| hazeleyes wrote: |
Q What's your fallback job?
A I can braid hair. |
 He really cracks me up!
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He is ahead of me. I can't seem to do anything with my hair. I wonder if I can get an appointment? 
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Thank you Mel for posting!
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haha very cute and funny interview! thank you very much!
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