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Lola
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: Orlando Sentinal Interview |
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Phoenix doesn't take work home with him
The hardworking actor puts his all into a role -- and leaves it there.
Roger Moore | Sentinel Movie Critic
October 14, 2007
"Making movies is a constant manipulation," actor Joaquin Phoenix insists. "You manipulate the environment. You make it rain when you want it to. You manipulate actors. And as an actor, you try and manipulate your feelings to match what you think you'd be going through in a situation where your character is going through something.
"But for me, when it's over, the manipulation is over. I don't take these guys home with me. Even Johnny Cash."
Phoenix, who turns 33 on Oct. 28, earned an Oscar nomination for playing Cash in Walk the Line. It was his second nomination (Gladiator was the first). He had spent years thinking about doing a Cash film biography, learning about music and practicing singing.
But he's not one of these actors who makes himself live with a character. It wouldn't work for Cash. And he certainly wouldn't have wanted to live with Bobby Green, the hard-partying club manager drawn into the family profession -- police work -- as he runs a club for Russian mobsters in We Own the Night. Any more than he would want to live as a grieving father obsessed with revenge when his young son is killed by a hit-and-run driver in Reservation Road, which opens Oct. 26.
"I don't go home and cry about my dead child," he says. "Some actors need to feel that pain all day and all night. And some don't . . . It doesn't make you more serious to carry that character around with you for the whole movie.
"If you can come in, say your lines brilliantly, and be thinking 'What's for lunch?' the whole time you're doing it and it works for the audience, who cares?"
Phoenix, who followed his late brother River into the acting business, has spent most of his career in Hollywood discounting the difficulties of the work and the celebrity that comes from it. It's as if acting is as easy as he has made it look -- a performer "strong enough to be weak," is how James Rocchi of Cinematical.com describes him in Reservation Road.
"He likes to make light of everything that he does, but he's a hardworking boy," says his Reservation Road "wife," Jennifer Connelly. "There's this complete absence of vanity about himself and the work. He takes life seriously."
So yes, right after Walk the Line's Oscar night, he shot We Own the Night with his director (James Gray) and co-star (Mark Wahlberg) from 2000's The Yards. Then the committed vegetarian and humanitarian went to the Amazon to meet a remote tribe he was to narrate a documentary about.
And after that, it was more Hollywood work in Reservation Road.
"I hate hearing actors say, 'I had to endure this or that,' " he grouses. "Remember, the hardest day I have on the set I still have production assistants bringing me juice, if I want it."
Not that he wants to sound ungrateful. He has lived a charmed life, he knows. He has played Roman emperors and misfit soldiers, moony romantics and sensitive priests. And if he doesn't live with every role 24/7 while he's doing it, he knows it lingers with him after the last ticket has been sold.
"I hear music differently," he says after Walk the Line. "Everything I've done has been a unique life experience that I never would have had had I not been making movies."
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thank you for that interview!
I'm always thinking about lunch  (I'm already hungry) during work but unfortunally it doesn't work for me, my collegue always asks me if I'm hungry, because I'm looking that way  ...
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