{"id":3608,"date":"2008-11-02T00:19:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T23:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2008-11-02T00:19:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T23:19:51","slug":"joaquin-phoenix-quits-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/02\/joaquin-phoenix-quits-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Joaquin Phoenix quits acting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/32taJhOqsW4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/32taJhOqsW4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>According to the entertainment show <a href=\"http:\/\/extratv.warnerbros.com\/2008\/10\/joaquin_phoenix_leaving_the_si.php\">Extra<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquin_Phoenix\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a><\/strong> has decided to quit acting.<\/p>\n<p>The video above was shot last night at a Paul Newman benefit, and the star of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gladiator_(2000_movie)\">Gladiator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walk_the_Line\">Walk the Line<\/a> and the forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Lovers_(film)\">Two Lovers<\/a>, said :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I want to take this opportunity&#8230; also to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor&#8230; I&#8217;m not doing films anymore.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked if he was being serious, Phoenix (who was being followed by his own camera crews), said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Yeah. I&#8217;m working on my music. I&#8217;m done. I&#8217;ve been through that.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either this is some kind of elaborate joke or Phoenix might have some serious issues going on.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001618\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001618\/\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a title=\"Internet Movie Database\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Movie_Database\">IMDb<br \/>\n<\/a>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7703821.stm\">BBC News report the story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the entertainment show Extra, Joaquin Phoenix has decided to quit acting. The video above was shot last night at a Paul Newman benefit, and the star of Gladiator, Walk the Line and the forthcoming Two Lovers, said : &#8216;I want to take this opportunity&#8230; also to give you the exclusive and just talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[629,2787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}