And this form of expression has given me the most extraordinary life. In his acceptance speech, he told his peers, 'We share the same love - that's the love of film. It was a singularly unique approach which led to a singularly unique performance, one which finally netted Phoenix that golden statue which he probably should have been awarded years ago. We just became very comfortable with not knowing.' 'I enjoy not knowing precisely what a character may do, but you want to have like a couple moments that you feel solid about. 'It's shaky ground as an actor,' he said. He was unstable.'Įventually, though, Phoenix - along with Phillips and the rest of Joker's cast and crew - found that this grey area was exactly where they needed to be. 'And at some point, I realized that was the f***ing point. 'When we were prepping for it, I felt very frustrated because I couldn't lock on anything that felt like a foundation for the character,' Phoenix said. I would show up at set two hours early to just sit in the trailer and talk about it.' I would go home after work and we would just talk about the next scene. 99+ Photos Crime Drama Thriller During the 1980's, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. 'But it was so inspiring, that as much energy I put into it, gave it back. 'I want to say it was super hard,' he said.

'I also didn't really have a life at that time because I couldn't go out to eat,' he said.įortunately, the role was simply so stimulating for Phoenix that he actually found these conditions to be agreeable. Phoenix also revealed that as a by-product of his strict diet (which we'll get to in a moment), his opportunities to interact with the cast and crew were even more limited than they might otherwise have been.

I never felt this moment of being done with my work day. Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Marc Maron, Douglas Hodge. It stayed with me every night after work for another two or three hours. In an interview with Metro, the actor said, ' At the end of the night there was never really an end.

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