I'm still here

Joaquin Phoenix, actor, director, producer, musician, and most recently added rapper to that list. We all perked up and took notice when he played Commodus in Galdiator(2000), it was then that his acting skills became apparent to us. A role  which earned him an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor that year. His next big role was in Walk the Line, after getting approval from Johnny Cash, himself to portray the singer. A role which won him the Golden Globe for Best Actor 2006 as well as an Oscar nomination in the same category in 2005 for the same role. With all Cash and Carter's vocal tracks in the movie and on the accompanying soundtrack  played and sung by Phoenix and Witherspoon, his co star.Phoenx, won a Grammy Award for his work on the soundtrack. It was apparent that Phoenix was on another level.


On October 27, 2008, at a benefit for Paul Newman's Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, Phoenix announced his retirement from acting and stated that he was going to be focusing on a music career. It was at this time that a dishevelled Phoenix, started making the rounds declaring himself a rapper.

Phoenix made his rap debut in mid-January 2009.Rumors circulated that it was an elaborate hoax, to which Phoenix stated "This is not a joke. Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention." However, he has also been reported to have 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."




In May 2010, Casey Affleck's documentary on Phoenix, I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, was shown to potential buyers. The Los Angeles Times reported that the film featured "more male frontal nudity than you’d find in some gay porn films and a stomach-turning sequence in which someone feuding with Phoenix defecates on the actor while he’s asleep". Reportedly film buyers, after seeing it, were still uncertain whether it was a serious documentary or a mockumentary. The film was acquired for distribution by Magnolia Pictures and is scheduled to appear in theaters September 10th, 2010.

This is the trailer...