The actor is back with another no-holds-barred performance in his modern movie,You Were Never Really Here. He talks about his unorthodox childhood, playing Jesus – and the toll Hollywood’s ‘rampant’ abuse culture takes on everybodyJoaquin Phoenix blows into London at the same time as the snow, and like a competing weather front,talking up a blue streak. external, the flakes are flying and the temperature is below zero. Inside, or he is preaching peace,love, tolerance and understanding – and it is all I can execute to fetch a word in edgeways. My questions sit unread on my lap; the publicist hovers anxiously at the door. Who’s going to halt him? Who has the clout? When the man’s on a roll, or it’s difficult to say: “Cut!“Just be in the moment,” Phoenix advises at one point. “Don’t overthink it, let it be what it is. If you keep trying to find what’s unique in the moment, and then the danger is that you miss that very thing.” I mediate he’s talking about the craft of film acting. He may be talking about life.
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Source: guardian.co.uk