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Joaquin Phoenix exits Todd Haynes gay drama five days before filming begins


Actor was set to lead an explicit love story set in 1930s but has reportedly left leaving the project to collapse

The Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix has reportedly dropped out of a new gay drama, directed by Todd Haynes, just five days before filming was set to begin. Phoenix was set to star opposite the Top Gun: Maverick actor Danny Ramirez in a 30s-set love story with “explicit sexual content”. Phoenix, last seen in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, recently finished another film with the Beau is Afraid director, Ari Aster, called Eddington alongside Emma Stone.

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