Joaquin Phoenix’s Rapping Career Takes Flight
If you thought the world would never know what made actor Joaquin Phoenix wake up one day last spring and decide he had a bright career ahead of him as a rapper, you might be wrong, because fellow actor and buddy Casey Affleck is currently directing a documentary on Phoenix’s rapping endeavors.
The rapper was scheduled to unveil his skills at a Las Vegas club yesterday (as of yesterday, the name of the club had not been announced). And it gets weirder: Pheonix’s album is to be produced by Sean “insert current nickname here” Combs. (Then again, if Diddy can be behind such musical fatalisms as produced by his show Making the Band, why not just produce every actor-rapper that comes along? He can always fall back on those Burger King commercials.)
The filming of Casey Affleck’s documentary on the Walk the Line actor-turned-rapper began filming yesterday, at Phoenix’s first show. Affleck has a bit of directing experience; his series of shorts were played on the Sundance Channel during the latter half of the nineties, but you probably also know Affleck better as an actor from movies like Ocean’s Eleven and Gone Baby Gone. He is also the younger brother of Ben Affleck.
Awww geese! Phoenix rapping? What next? Pigs flying?