{"id":280847,"date":"2019-10-01T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1078562"},"modified":"2019-10-01T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:16:00","slug":"the-origins-of-joaquin-phoenix-and-rooney-maras-relationship-are-beyond-relatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-origins-of-joaquin-phoenix-and-rooney-maras-relationship-are-beyond-relatable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara&#8217;s Relationship Are Beyond Relatable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.69414893617\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019829\/rs_634x851-190929131520-634-joaquin-mara.cm.92919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara \" alt=\"Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Michael Buckner\/Variety\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.251748251748\">\n<p>Celebrities get mixed signals just like the rest of us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/joaquin_phoenix\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rooney_mara\">Rooney Mara<\/a><\/strong>, who live together and sparked engagement speculation in the spring when Mara <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1040248\/rooney-mara-s-massive-diamond-ring-sparks-joaquin-phoenix-engagement-rumors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was spotted with a diamond ring<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>that<\/em> finger. Though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/822300\/rooney-mara-joaquin-phoenix-leave-detox-spa-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pair has been romantically linked since<\/a> 2017, they have kept their romance largely to themselves save for the occasional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078071\/joaquin-phoenix-and-rooney-mara-make-joker-premiere-a-date-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joint red carpet appearance<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, in a newly published interview with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2019\/10\/joaquin-phoenix-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vanity Fair<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>for the November issue, the <em>Joker<\/em> star briefly opened up about his romance with the two-time Oscar nominee and his former co-star. As fans may recall, the two stars worked together in the 2013 sci-fi romance,&nbsp;<em>Her<\/em>, and then reunited in the 2018 drama,&nbsp;<em>Mary Magdalene<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.333702882483\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.813747228381\">\n<p>By the release of the latter, they were already an item, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/857734\/rooney-mara-and-joaquin-phoenix-casually-make-their-awards-show-debut-at-cannes-film-festival-s-closing-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made their red carpet debut<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/06\/t-magazine\/joaquin-phoenix.html?mcubz=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed to be living together<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, back when they were making&nbsp;<strong>Spike Jonze<\/strong>&#8216;s Oscar-nominated film, it sounds like romance was initially the furthest possibility for these two. According to&nbsp;<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, Phoenix thought the actress despised him.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, he &#8220;later learned she was just shy and actually liked him too,&#8221; the magazine reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201991\/rs_634x889-191001072035-Joaquin-Phoenix.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Joaquin Phoenix, Vanity Fair, November 2019 \" alt=\"Joaquin Phoenix, Vanity Fair, November 2019 \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Ethan James Green\/Vanity Fair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>Making their story even cuter, Phoenix shared with <em>VF<\/em>,&nbsp;&#8220;She&#8217;s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet&#8230;We were just friends, email friends. I&#8217;d never done that. Never looked up a girl online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About six years later, the actor is happy about his life\u2014with Mara very much in it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always had a hard time,&#8221; he told <em>Vanity Fair&nbsp;<\/em>of his work as an actor.&nbsp;&#8220;And, I think only recently, as you get older or whatever, you&#8217;re okay. You go, &#8216;Maybe it is going to be a bad experience&#8217; or &#8216;Maybe I&#8217;m not going to enjoy it. And maybe I won&#8217;t have any of those connections, maybe I&#8217;ll feel just hollow afterwards.&#8217; That&#8217;s okay. Because I know that I have meaning in other parts of my life. And that&#8217;s really what sustains me. I enjoy it. I love my life. I f!$king love my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078562\/the-origins-of-joaquin-phoenix-and-rooney-mara-s-relationship-are-beyond-relatable?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Buckner\/Variety\/Shutterstock Celebrities get mixed signals just like the rest of us.&nbsp; Take&nbsp;Joaquin Phoenix and&nbsp;Rooney Mara, who live together and sparked engagement speculation in the spring when Mara was spotted with a diamond ring on&nbsp;that finger. Though the pair has been romantically linked since 2017, they have kept their romance largely to themselves save for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-20 11:47:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}