{"id":280913,"date":"2019-10-02T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1078925"},"modified":"2019-10-02T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T11:55:00","slug":"joaquin-phoenix-is-embarrassed-by-his-diva-behavior-on-set-of-joker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/joaquin-phoenix-is-embarrassed-by-his-diva-behavior-on-set-of-joker\/","title":{"rendered":"Joaquin Phoenix Is &#8220;Embarrassed&#8221; By His Diva Behavior on Set of Joker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201992\/rs_600x600-191002034010-600-Joaquin-Phoenix-Kimmel-LT-100219.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.916224814422\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.876988335101\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/joaquin_phoenix\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;just got put on blast.<\/p>\n<p>While sitting down with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jimmy_kimmel\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a><\/strong>on Tuesday night&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>, the actor was surprised by an outtake from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078367\/joaquin-phoenix-says-he-was-obsessed-with-losing-52-pounds-for-the-joker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upcoming flick&nbsp;<em>Joker<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>sent over to the show by director&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/todd_phillips\">Todd Phillips<\/a><\/strong>. The video showed an annoyed Phoenix&nbsp;sniping at the film&#8217;s cinematographer&nbsp;<strong>Lawrence Sher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Clad in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029214\/watch-joaquin-phoenix-transform-into-the-famous-villain-in-first-joker-trailer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joker get-up<\/a> (green hair, clown makeup),&nbsp;Phoenix is seen telling Sher to stop distracting him.&nbsp;&#8220;The constant whispering,&#8221; he said in the clip. &#8220;Just shut the f@*k up, dude. I&#8217;m trying to find something real.&#8221; In response, Sher calls him&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cher\">Cher<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;poking fun at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/house_of_dvf\/news\/598992\/the-9-biggest-divas-in-the-history-of-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diva-like behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not even an insult,&#8221; Phoenix said of the new nickname. &#8220;Cher, really? She&#8217;s a singer, actor, dancer, fashion icon. How is that a f*!king insult?&#8221;&nbsp;He then proceeded to storm off set and away from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>After the short video wrapped, the actor\u2014clearly unaware this would be played\u2014was visibly flustered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>And, he took it upon himself to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is so embarrassing,&#8221; Phoenix told Kimmel. &#8220;Sometimes movies get intense because you&#8217;re a lot of people in a small space and you&#8217;re trying to find something, so it can feel intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>&#8220;That was supposed to be private,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m a little embarrassed, I&#8217;m sorry about that. I&#8217;m sorry you guys had to see that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out Kimmel&#8217;s full interview with Phoenix to see the uncomfortable outtake, as well as some other interesting tales from the creation of&nbsp;<em>Joker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1078925\/joaquin-phoenix-is-embarrassed-by-his-diva-behavior-on-set-of-joker?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>Joaquin Phoenix&nbsp;just got put on blast. While sitting down with&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmelon Tuesday night&#8217;s&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor was surprised by an outtake from his upcoming flick&nbsp;Joker,&nbsp;sent over to the show by director&nbsp;Todd Phillips. The video showed an annoyed Phoenix&nbsp;sniping at the film&#8217;s cinematographer&nbsp;Lawrence Sher. Clad in his Joker get-up (green hair, clown makeup),&nbsp;Phoenix is seen [&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-280913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-20 09:15:49","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\/280913","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=280913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}