BeauIsAfraid : Joaquin Phoenix & Ari Aster Talk Tragicomedy
“A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster,” reads the film’s synopsis.
Jonathan Sim: Joaquin, your performance in this movie is nothing short of phenomenal. Are there any characters that you played in the past that you drew from while you were figuring out the character of Beau?: No, certainly not consciously. No.
So I think that was one of the most difficult things, and it felt like it was a few weeks in before I stopped asking those questions, and I stopped questioning the world and how he behaved. And I made all that up, but it will be good in print.? How did it differ from some of the other scripts that you’ve written and how did you take the script that you wrote and adapt it to working with Joaquin?: Well, the writing process is always kind of the same.
I had the time with this one to do that for myself, to be able to read over it over and over again and kind of feel in my own body when I was just not in it, and it’s very hard to sometimes recognize that you’re not even liking something you’ve written because it’s so familiar that it just feels right. You’ve read it over a million times, it just is a fact. And so in the process of shooting the film, that never stops.
That feeling of, “As we come into this, let’s just be really hoping of what this can be and what it necessarily is,” and I don’t think the writing really changed in the shooting of the film. That’s not what changed. I mean, every now and then, Joaquin will say, “What the fuck am I saying? Because I don’t want to say this.” So I’ll say, “Well you don’t get to say anything,” and I’ll take the line away. It’s not the writing that changed.
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