Todd Haynes is speaking out after Joaquin Phoenix walked away from the director's gay period drama just five days before it was set to begin filming, calling the experience 'tough.'
The director hasn't given up on the project just yet, noting that it "may resurrect in a different form someday."with over five years of experience covering the latest in entertainment.
"I think, if I do, I'd just be sharing my opinion from my perspective and the other creatives aren't here to say their piece, and I just don't feel like that would be right. I'm not sure how that would be helpful," Phoenix, 50, said, according toJoaquin Phoenix pushed Todd Haynes to 'go further' with their gay period romance so it's now NC-17
“The idea that time was wasted and that a movie is not a result of those years of working closely with Joaquin… That is the tragedy to me,” she said during a Fireside Talk at the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival Creative Investor's Conference, per. “And that I can’t get over, that we, as a cultural community, lost the opportunity to have another movie by Todd Haynes. That is just criminal.
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