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Joaquin Phoenixfainted while filming an intense scene for his new film,Beau is Afraid.
“There was a scene that was very intense forPatti [LuPone], and it was a shot that was on Patti — it was not on him — and all of a sudden, [Phoenix] fell out of frame,” Aster, 36, said, according to Deadline.
“I was really pissed ‘cause it was a really good take. It felt confusing so I went around the corner, and he was collapsed,” he continued. “I knew it was bad because he was letting people touch him, and people were tending to him and he was allowing it.”
“The point is that he fainted in somebody else’s take. He wasn’t on camera, and he was helping them. He was in it for them to the point where he collapsed,” Aster said of Phoenix. “It’s very poetic that he collapsed in somebody else’s shot.”
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In January, A24 released the official trailer forBeau Is Afraid, Aster’s first movie since 2019’sMidsommar, which appears to follows Phoenix’s title character Beau over a long period of his life.
Aside from Phoenix and LuPone, the film also starsNathan Lane,Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Richard Kind, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones andParker Posey.
Beau Is Afraidreleases exclusively in theaters April 21.
source: people.com
