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Joaquin Phoenix's departure from Todd Haynes‘ untitled gay romance movie has been branded a "nightmare" by one of the producers. The 49-year-old actor exited the project just days before the film was set to start shooting on location in Guadalajara, Mexico and the future of the movie is said to be in doubt as it reportedly hinged on Phoenix's casting - now Christine Vachon - who works for Killer Films - has admitted it's been a very difficult time. In a post on Facebook, she shared and article about the drama and wrote: "A version of this did happen. It has been a nightmare. If I haven't been ...
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Joaquin Phoenix has dropped out of Todd Haynes‘ untitled gay romance movie, just five days before filming was due to begin. The 49-year-old actor reportedly got "cold feet" and exited the project, days before the film was set to start shooting in Guadalajara, Variety reports. Entire sets had already been built on location and there is now doubt about the future of the movie, as it reportedly hinged on Phoenix's casting. A source told Variety: "The project is in peril... The crew is now out of work, and stakeholders in the film still need to be paid. Losses could exceed seven figures." 'Top Gun...
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Danny Ramirez is to star alongside Joaquin Phoenix in a detective movie from director Todd Haynes. The 31-year-old actor has been cast in the untitled film that has been penned by Haynes together with Phoenix and Jon Raymond. Details regarding the plot are scarce, but the picture is said to follow two men – one of whom is played by Phoenix – who are intense lovers and leave California for Mexico. Haynes' regular collaborator Christine Vachon is producing alongside Pam Koffler. Danny played the role of Lieutenant Mickey 'Fanboy' Garcia in 'Top Gun: Maverick' and expressed hope that he would be ...
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Natalie Portman had never seen a ‘Star Wars’ film until she was cast in the franchise. The 42-year-old actress played Padme Amidala in 1999 prequel 'The Phantom Menace' and its 2002 and 2005 sequels, and though she was “aware of the lingo” of the sci-fi world, she hadn’t actually sat through any of the original trilogy. She admitted to Radio Times magazine: “I didn’t know the films at all before I was cast! “I was aware of the lingo, as American culture is so immersed in ‘Star Wars’. “Even if you’ve never seen the movies, you know what Princess Leia buns are, what a lightsaber is, what a Jedi ...
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Natalie Portman finds all sex scenes "uncomfortable". The 42-year-old actress stars in the sex scandal drama 'May December' as the actress Elizabeth Berry, who is studying the real-life subject of her next movie; Julianne Moore's character Gracie Atherton-Yoo, who is caught having sex in a pet store stockroom with Joe, her co-worker, played by Charles Melton, when he was just 13. The movie takes a dark turn when a creepy voice tells Elizabeth through the mirror: “You’re … Gracie." And Natalie says there was "good, open communication" between the co-stars before they filmed the sex scene. She t...
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Todd Haynes doesn't target "the mainstream" with his films. The 62-year-old director has helmed movies such as 'Far from Heaven' and 'May December' and thinks that his work is diverse as it originates "from the margins". Todd told the Guardian newspaper: "People have definitely put my films into thematic through-lines: films that deal with domestic stories and female subjects in one category, and films that deal with artists and musicians in another. "In both, I'm interested in places where identity is called into question by circumstances or by artistic practices. "But I think the thing that ...
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Natalie Portman finds the late Audrey Hepburn’s charity work “inspirational”. The 42-year-old actress has expressed her admiration for the ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ star - who passed away in 1993 aged 63 - for swapping the “glamour” and “allure” of Hollywood to work as an anti-poverty campaigner after cementing a name for herself as an activist. Speaking before the strike be actors union SAG-AFTRA, the 42-year-old actress told the UK edition of Readers Digest: “Audrey Hepburn is one of the most inspirational people to me because she left acting to go work with UNICEF. "I just saw a compilation ...
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Todd Haynes finds Julianne Moore's work "fascinating". The 62-year-old director's latest movie, 'May December', marks the fifth time he has worked with the Oscar-winning actress because they share similar interests when it comes to the themes of their work, and he is always impressed by what she brings to the screen. Speaking to Deadline's Breaking Baz column, Todd gushed: “Oh, she’s singular in so many ways. “There’s this interaction between something transparent and inexplicable, impenetrable about her … or not impenetrable, but there’s an interplay between something that you can’t entirely ...
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Todd Haynes is still desperate to make his Peggy Lee biopic 'Fever'. The 62-year-old director had been set to make a movie that featured Michelle Williams as the legendary singer before the project was scrapped last year for financial reasons, although he is refusing to give up hope that it will eventually come to the big screen. Todd told IndieWire at the New York Film Festival: "When it couldn't happen – when we thought it could happen and it was close to pre-production – it was tough. "It's still a tender spot for all of us. We really put so much time and thought into it. And then I just ha...
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Joaquin Phoenix is set to star in a new NC-17-rated gay romance movie. The 'Beau is Afraid' actor will star in 'Far From Heaven' director Todd Haynes' upcoming new project, which the filmmaker has described as a "gay love story" set in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Speaking during Cannes Film Festival, he told IndieWire: "The next film is a feature that’s an original script that I developed with Joaquin Phoenix based on some thoughts and ideas he brought to me. “We basically wrote with him as a story writer. Me and Jon Raymond and Joaquin share the story credit. "And we hope to be shooting it begi...
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