“Joaquin Phoenix Passed Out on Set”

Ari Aster, also director of Midsommar, confesses the incident that occurred on the set of his latest film during a film screening.

Beau is scared, the new film from the visionary director Ari Aster, author of the famous horror films Midsummar (2019) e Hereditary – The roots of evil (2018), was presented yesterday as an April Fool’s Day to fans of the director during a screening in New York.

Fans of the director, who had gone to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in New York expecting to see an extended version of Midsummar instead they found themselves in front of the complete film of Beau is scared

. A fan favorite April Fool’s Day joke (obviously!).

Beau scared, Ari Aster says: ‘he was in the moment to the point of collapsing’

After the screening of the film, followed by a Q&A moderated by the actress Emma Stone, the American director Aster has rrevealed the background of an accident that happened on the set that saw the protagonist Joaquin Pheonix

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The director expressed his appreciation for the American actor by revealing that Phoenix wishes “that everything must be seen as honest” and who usually wants to try multiple versions of the same scene. Furthermore, said that just as Phoenix filmed a scene with Patti LuPonewho in the film plays the mother of Beau (Phoenix), the accident happened in question.

“There was one scene that was really intense for Patti and it was a shot that was about Patti, it wasn’t about him (Phoenix), and suddenly he fell out of frame“explained the director. “In that moment I was really annoyed because it seemed like a scene that was coming along well. I was very confused and I went around the corner and he had collapsed“, confessed the director.

Aster then told of the following moments: “I knew the situation was bad because he was letting people touch him and people were rescuing him, and he was allowing it.” “What I mean that he passed out while someone else was on stageand he wasn’t even in the room but he was helping them. He was in the moment for them to the point of collapsing. It’s truly poetic that he passed out in someone else’s shot“said the American director.

The Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix is the protagonist of the exciting odyssey of a man who goes through various seasons of his existence, between daily challenges and unpredictable scenarios, in a surprising human epic. Beau is scared

was produced by A24 e will be released in Italian theaters in April with the distribution of I Wonder Pictures.

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