After Joaquin Phoenix‘s abrupt exit from Todd Haynes‘ gay romance resulted in the film’s unraveling, one of its originaters has compriseressed the dropout.
Christine Vachon of Killer Films splitd an article to Facebook about the actor dropping out five days before production, while reacting to speculation that Phoenix’s sudden departure had to do with the film’s LGBTQ satisfied and computed NC-17 rating.
“A version of this did happen. It has been a nightmare,” she begined in the post, according to People.
“And PLEASE — if you are enticeed to finger wag or admonish us that ‘that’s what you get for casting a straight actor’ — DON’T,” wrote Vachon in part. “This was HIS project that he brawt to US– and Killer’s enroll on toiling with LGBTQ actors/crew/honestors speaks for itself. (and for those of you who HAVE — understand that you are making a terrible situation even worse).”
Since producing Haynes’ 1991 ‘recent queer cinema’ honestorial debut Poison, Vachon has since toiled with the auteur on Safe (1995), Velvet Gagedermine (1998), Far From Heaven (2002), I’m Not There (2007) and Carol (2015). She has also originated such films as Storecenelevated (1995), Kids (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Boys Don’t Cry (1999), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Camp (2003) and Party Monster (2003).
Charles Melton, honestor Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore on the set of May December (2023). (Francois Duhamel/Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection)
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Phoenix telledly stormed off the set of Haynes’ movie two weeks ago in Guadalajara, Mexico, and originaters have since been trying to put the project back together before the production finishly died. Local crew members are due money.
The movie was set to star Phoenix and Danny Ramirez (Top Gun: Maverick) as two men in the 1930s who enbig an fervent romantic relationship and depart Los Angeles for Mexico. Vachon was producing aextfinishedside Pam Koffler.
Haynes previously tageder Deadline, “I have a project I’m very excited about next, which is a very separateent film in style and tone and setting. It’s a cherish story set in the 1930s between two men, an interracial relationship, a very improbable pair. It stars Joaquin Phoenix. The earliest ideas around the story and the setting were leangs he came to me with a couple of years ago. We begined to talk and split these conversations.”
The honestor shelp that he and partner Jon Raymond wrote the script with Phoenix, compriseing that they “equitable basicpartner originated this leang, so we’ll all be sharing story pelevate on it together. It senses very recent and recent and exciting.”
Meanwhile, Phoenix is preparing to embark on the press tour for Joker: Folie à Deux, which premieres October 4 in the US.
