In October, Joaquin Phoenixquit acting to become a musician. So this weekend, he showed up at the swanky, $22 million nightclub Lavo at Palazzo to make his first announced concert performance. He rapped three songs after midnight Friday. Yeah. Rapped. Then he fell off a catwalk.
Phoenix said he rapped freestyle at smaller clubs, but those were surprise appearances. At one club, a DJ messed with him, and people threw ice at him.
“Are there people that are gonna say that it’s a joke? Yeah. Are there people that’s gonna say that I suck? Probably. I can’t control that. You know what I mean? I run that same (expletive) risk every movie I do. I feel like the other actors are going, ‘This dude sucks. This is a (expletive) joke.’”
But before that, he spent a surreal day at the hotel. Tourists gawked. Photographers stalked. Miss America contestants were filming in the hotel, so Phoenix found them, put on a tiara and Miss Kentucky’s sash, and posed for photos. At some other point, he pulled his shirt up to flash someone.
Friends of Joaquin Phoenix tell Page Six that they are worried about the actor and his battle with drugs and alcohol.
His friends say that during a special tribute to Paul Newman last week in San Francisco the two-time Oscar nominee was “out of it”.
A source said that “he wobbled back in a bit later, but it was odd. He was slurring his words and was unsteady on his feet.”
Last week he gave the above interview to Extra in which he announced he is retiring from acting, he said “I want to take this opportunity … to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor, I’m not doing films anymore.” When asked if he was serious he said “Yeah. I’m working on my music, I’m done. I’ve been through that.”
