Joaquin Phoenix: You Just Got Punk’d!

Joaquin Pheonix has us all fooled, or so an insider says.  Claiming he was retiring from his acting career for something a little more musical, it’s now being spread around that this is nothing but a hilarious stunt.

That’s what Entertainment Weekly is reporting. Sources tell the magazine’s Hollywood Insider blog that Phoenix’s bizarre career change, which Casey Affleck (who’s married to Phoenix’s sister Summer) has been filming, is a joke at the expense of the entertainment media and actors who take themselves too seriously.

“He said, ‘It’s a put-on. I’m going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it,’” says one source who recently worked with Phoenix.

All I can say is, all that hard work takes hard work, power, and balls… all powered by an amazing and well respected jerk.  My hero.

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