Waiting to see May Decemberfilm presented at the last Cannes Film Festival starring Julianne Moore and director Natalie Portman. Todd Haynesguest of the American Film Festival in Deauville, revealed some details about his next project, in which he will play a leading role. Joaquin Phoenix.
Todd Haynes reveals the first details of his next film starring Joaquin Phoenix.
“It is a love story between two men set in the 1930s that contains explicit sexual content or at least challenges viewers in the relationship.sexual ion between these two men. One of the characters is Native American and the other is a corrupt Los Angeles cop.. The action takes place in the 1930s. Eventually they have to leave Los Angeles and go to Mexico. But it’s a love story with a strong sexual component.”” Todd Haynes said.
The director then revealed that Joaquin Phoenix played an important role in writing the script: “What was remarkable was that it all started with Joaquin having some ideas and thoughts and just questions and images. And he came up to me and said, “Does this affect you in any way?” And I said, “Yeah, that’s really interesting.” So we talked on the phone and it turned into a script. He had fragments of ideas and then I began to formulate them into an actual narrative. And then I brought in my wonderful, brilliant friend John Raymond, who I collaborated with on Mildred Pierce. It was essentially a wonderful, organic way of creating the script. And Joaquin moved further and further into more dangerous territory from a sexual point of view.“.