These are photos of Joaquin Phoenix leaving an LA karate class (with a brown belt?). They’re not particularly exciting pictures except that Joaquin looked generally unkempt and weird. He walked around in bare feet and visited an ATM without putting on shoes. That’s pretty gross. I wanted to talk about Joaquin because we haven’t checked in with him lately. I wonder if he’s still dating that 19-year-old DJ. I’ll never be able to get over that weirdness.
Joaquin, 39, seems too young for a mid-life crisis, right? I worry about him. He really has looked tired and unwell for about the last year, and he’s always wrestled with personal demons. Those same demons help him give great performances. He gave a heartbreaking one in Her that was so crushing and real. To deliver that depth must take a lot out of a person.
Anyway, I am wondering if Joaquin will be at the Oscars on Sunday. Her received five nominations including Best Picture and Original Screenplay. Joaquin was nominated for a Golden Globe but was passed over for an Oscar nod. He’s probably relieved at his lack of nomination because of his contempt for the Oscars as “utter bullsh-t.” It would be unprofessional if he didn’t show up to the year’s most important awards ceremony to support a movie where he was the lead actor. He should show up to support Spike Jonze at least. So I hope Joaquin shaves and wears his Chucks on the red carpet this weekend.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
There were pictures of Joaquin and his nineteen year old daughter, oops, I mean girlfriend, at PSH’s funeral. So, yeah, still together….
She apparently turned 20 earlier this month.Still doesn’t make it less weird. I don’t think he is having a “meltdown” or crisis. Paul Walker, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Phillipe. All of those are d-bags who have dated girls that are wayy to young to be their gfs. He doesn’t give a eff about his looks which is so sad because he is gorgeous under all the scruff and hair. Of course he has a lot of personal demons, I mean hello. He is one of the best working actors today, he deserves so much more praise than people are giving him. I don’t really give a about his personal life, his cinematic work overshadows that but please, Mr Phoenix, just back in 2012 you looks so handsome at the Venice Film Festival and had a lady more in your age range. Go back to that. This girl is wearing you down.
Please don’t speak ill of the dead.
I never get this “don’t speak ill of the dead” idea. What if the dead person was a genuine ass? What, we are supposed to rewrite history because they kicked it?
Hitler is dead. Bin Laden is dead. No I’m not comparing Paul Walker to them (I personally think he seemed like a sweet man but I don’t know much about him) but are we not going to address who people really were once they are dead.
Here’s why it really bothers me: my husband’s grandfather recently died. He was an awful man, abusive and mean. But no one could address it because now he’s dead. It was painful for the family when really they felt relief that he was gone. It would have helped if they could have honestly talked about their feelings about him and his treatment of them. But no, he’s dead so he has to be treated as a saint. Cognitive dissonance.
Patricia, that perspective comes with time ( in re to your SO’s grandfather). When someone dies, immediately after, people contemplate the loss of good things).
Clearly, he wasn’t looking for attention. If he wore this to an awards show, then I’d think he was up to something or off the rails. But come on, he’s exercising and maybe just being lazy about shaving. He really doesn’t look crazy or anything else. He seems self-conscious in those photos.
Agreed. Plus the no shoe thing, you’re not allowed to wear shoes on the mat EVER and it looks like he’s leaving out the back. Probably getting money to pay his teacher? Anyway, I think he might show up at the Oscars but I don’t think he’ll shave, he seems more comfortable hiding his face.
I agree he’s probably going back in. I used to go barefoot all the time as a teenager but I stepped on a huge piece of glass once and it was a horrible 40 minutes of having it dug out with an exacto knife, and two weeks of pain from the deep cut. I don’t think bare feet is gross but I do always think of that incedent when I see people in bare feet. Britney at the gas stations made my blood run cold with fear for her feets!
He’s one of my fave actors but my god, can he be weird sometimes. I can’t get over the barefoot at the ATM thing, I find it so gross.
As for the Oscars, I hope that he’ll be there. Even if he thinks it’s a pile of bull, the least he can do is show up to support his director. I saw Her and thought that it was a bit long but a really moving movie nonetheless, so it’d be nice for the lead actor to be at the awards ceremony.
It was a really different role for Joaquin, and I thought he was great in it…and, added bonus, Amy Adams, who is always great!
Her is the best film of the year, by far. Both Joaquin and ScarJo deserved nominations. He’ll be there at the Oscars, he said that in an interview to the Guardian, if I’m not wrong. Also, Inherent Vice got a release date. So another PTA + Joaquin movie this year. It’s a long wait though, until December.
Didn’t the Oscars refuse to consider SJ for a nomination because it was voice work?
Ew. I get completely grossed out by walking through airport security in stocking feet or barefooted. How can he walk around a city, with all the God knows what on those streets…. Ew, ew, going to wash my feet.
Furry and all, he’s still a sexy beast.
He can roll around unkempt all day every day at my house.
He may show at the Oscars. He may bristle at the politics of the Oscars but I don’t think he’s ungrateful or unwilling to support his movies.
Elvis comes to mind.
First thing I thought of too: Elvis
I’ve always loved him as an actor, even in all of his weirdness.
I do think he is taking Hoffman’s death hard.
I didn’t get a chance to see his last movie about the “computer” love, I wonder how it did.
Grocery store feet. Gross.
I wish he would take better care of his health, but at least he’s exercising. Hotness is just a shave and a shower away.
Better care of his health, ….. with a cigarette in his mouth…ugh!
I still think he’s hot. Especially in the barefoot ATM pic. Wtf is wrong with me?!?
1 belt away from black!
I wonder how long he has been training for? Lots of the time when you become brown you get called Senpai and help the Sensei teach the class.
I did at my club anyway.
Joaquin is my favourite actor EVER. I love everything he has ever been in. The man is a true freakn artist.
Secondly, why does everyone have a problem with shoelessness? I have never understood it. Where I live everyone goes shoeless and in the summertime it’s a novelty to see my kids with shoes ON. They go bare foot everywhere.
Everyone does it, no biggie.