Actor is experimenting with his appearance
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Joaquin Phoenix says he’s grown a bushy beard to escape his pin-up status.
The actor, 34, who is attempting to launch a rap career, finds it uncomfortable being eye candy.
‘People have called me a sex symbol in the past, but it's very much an effort,’ he tells The Sun.
‘People know me as this kind of thing and in some ways I don't know that this is my look.
‘It's been important for me to just do something that's extreme - that really separates me from that public Joaquin Phoenix persona, whatever the f*** that is. Or maybe I'm just lazy.’
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I think that Phoenix is just bored with the sanitised, repressed and uncultured situation of American television and the media per se - Letterman set the philistine tone with an opening joke about his beard, for god's sake. As if it were a crime to have a beard! I think Phoenix seemed incredibly bored - not to mention offended and perplexed - and went through the motions to fulfill the contract... but he did not play Letterman's game. I hope he gets his lawyer to sue every news source who confused his obvious authenticity with madness. But, I am sure he has better things to do than play that game as well.
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