The producer who was dumped by Joaquin Phoenix speaks out about the actor’s fear

Since he won the statuette at the 2020 Oscars thanks to joker, Joaquin Phoenix has not managed to recover his level as a performer, much less clean his public image of conflicting actor. And before previewing Joker: Folie à Deux At the Venice Film Festival, the abandonment came to the fore just a few days after the filming of the film in which he was going to star for filmmaker Todd Haynes. The project was canceled generating millionaire losses for those involved and with a Phoenix who did not want to explain the reasons for his shock at the press conference of the Italian contest, because as he declared: “the other creatives are not there to share his point of view.” Well, now a person in charge of the label that she completely left behind has wanted express disappointment with the decision of the interpreter of Puerto Rican origin.

Unlike Phoenix, executive producer Christine Vachon He has not kept his thoughts on the tragedy of what was going to be Haynes’s new film, explaining in the Creative Investors Conference at the current San Sebastian Film Festival. Accustomed to risky roles, the actor’s decision to retire it was a surprise for the entire team, especially because there were five days for filming to begin. The film was going to have an LGTBI theme and Phoenix himself had fought for the film to be eligible for the R ratingthrough explicit sex scenes. However, overnight she decided to abruptly escape from the film, leaving thrown at all the workers. Although Bachon does more than criticize the star, what he really regrets is the fact that the film community has been deprived of a new work by the director of carol.

Joaquin Phoenix: it rains in the wet

This is not Joaquin Phoenix’s first erratic behavior as an acting professional. Upon finishing filming Arthur Fleck’s origin story, he had to apologize to Robert De Niro and the team for his attitude on set when assuming his role as a method actor and, a few days ago, James McAvoy confirmed that Phoenix had abandoned the filming of Multiple of M. Night Shyamalan at the last minute. Given the attitude presented and the work for a whole series of artistic departments that were at his disposal, Bachon could have drawn blood by publicly explaining the consequences of the actor’s decision Gladiatorbut preferred to focus on the fact of not being able to have a new Haynes story.

«The truth is that what happened is visible to everyone. If I had something to gossip about, I would, but I don’t. “It was tragic,” the producer of past lives. Immediately after, she explained how sad it was for her not to have been able to collaborate with the Oscar nominee and how the unfortunate event has deprived the world of having a new cinematic story from the privileged imagination of Haynes:

«The most tragic thing about all this, in my opinion, is that Todd Haynes is 62 years old. He’s not old, but there are a finite number of movies he will be able to make in his lifetime. I consider him one of the most extraordinary film artists of his generation. The idea that he wasted his time and that a film is not the result of those years of working closely with Joaquin is a tragedy for me and I cannot get over it.

Production was to begin in Guadalajara, Mexico, where the sets had been built. Members of the home team are said to still be owed money after the cancellation. Vachon was producing the film with Pamela Koffler. The feature film, which did not yet have an official title, was going to star Phoenix and Danny Ramirez (Top Gun: Maverick), giving life to two men in the 1930s who they start a romantic relationshipleaving Los Angeles to go to Mexico. Haynes had developed the script with John Raymondformer partner with whom I developed the miniseries Mildred Pierce from HBO.

«We, as a cultural community, missed the opportunity to have another Todd Haynes film. “That is simply criminal,” Vachon concluded.

The future of Todd Haynes

When the producer was asked about the director’s future, she didn’t know what to answer. Todd Haynes had put all his energy into this story after Secrets of a scandal and at the moment, he does not have any new projects lined up.

For his part, Joaquin Phoenix will premiere Joker: Folie à Deux the next October 4. The actor needs to recover from his last two box office failures; Beau is scared and Napoleon.