Joaquin Phoenix Apologizes on Letterman For Documentary Lies
Two people I care almost nothing about got together this evening to discus some project Phoenix was involved in where he lied about trying to become a rapper in a documentary.
Apparently people thought he had gone off the deep end and was losing it and needing some acne body wash. Frankly, I don’t know who the hell this guy is, other than maybe hearing a vague mention of his name at some point. I wouldn’t know him if you showed me a picture.
“I mean, I think that you’ve interviewed many, many people and I assumed that you would know the difference between a character and a real person,” he says about the now-infamous 2009 interview, in which a gum-chomping, mumbling Phoenix barely answered Letterman’s questions. “I hope I didn’t offend you in any way.”
The appearance turned out to be an act. Director Casey Affleck recently revealed Phoenix’s supposed documentary, I’m Still Here, which followed the actor during that strange time, isn’t real.
“Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no,” Letterman told him. “I’m telling you, it was so much fun. It was batting practice, you know what I mean? Every one of them was a dinger.”
