Hollywood insiders say Joaquin Phoenix may have gotten ‚cold feet‘ about a sexually explicit film.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix and director Todd Haynes have never shied away from controversial material. Joker, for which Phoenix won a Best Actor Oscar, was both praised and criticized for its depiction of mental illness. Haynes‘ May December dealt with an illicit relationship between an adult and a teenage boy. But it seems that whatever was planned for Haynes‘ upcoming gay romance movie was a bridge too far for Phoenix, 49, who exited the project five days before it was set to begin filming.
According to an interview Haynes gave to Variety last year, the untitled film is a „love story between two men set in the ’30s that has explicit sexual content.
