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Joaquin Phoenix Abandons Todd Haynes’ Gay Romance Movie, Just Five Days Before Filming
Joaquin Phoenix has exited Todd Haynes' gay romance movie, just five days before the production was set to start in Mexico.
A source close to the production tells Variety the actor got “cold feet.” Entire sets had been built in Guadalajara before Phoenix made the last-minute decision to exit the film, in early July. In 2023, Haynes teased the project in an interview with Variety as a “love story between two men set in the ’30s that has explicit sexual content.” The film was said to be rated NC-17 and feature a relationship that will “challenge” audiences. Haynes told Variety in September 2023 that the film started with “fragments of ideas” from Phoenix, which the director formulated into “an actual narrative” before bringing Raymond on board.
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