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Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby took commitment to their roles to the next level on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon." The 48-year-old actor slapped the 35-year-old actress while they were shooting a heated scene after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" on the set of the upcoming historical drama. Phoenix and Kirby, who star as Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, told Empire magazine they talked ahead of filming and decided to give each other full creative freedom when improvising physical interactions.
"She said, ‘Look, whatever you feel, you can do.’ I said, ‘Same thing with you.’ She said, ‘You can slap me, you can grab me, you can pull me, you can kiss me, whatever it is,’" Phoenix recalled. The Oscar winner continued, "We had this agreement that we were going to surprise each other and try and create moments that weren’t there, because both of us wanted to avoid the cliché of the period drama." While method acting has often resulted in rave reviews and prestigious awards, some actors occasionally take the technique to extremes – leading to offended co-stars, physical ailments and near-death experiences.
Here's a look at other actors who pushed method acting to the limit. Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman played warring exes in the 1979 divorce drama "Kramer vs.
Kramer." The movie became a hit and won the Academy Award for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as best actor and best supporting actress for Hoffman and Streep. However, rumors persisted for years that Hoffman slapped Streep, who was then an up-and-coming actress, ahead of an emotional scene to provoke a more genuine reaction from her.
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Joaquin Phoenix slapped his co-star Vanessa Kirby on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon" after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" during filming. The 48-year-old Academy Award winner, who plays Napoleon Bonaparte and the 35-year-old "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" actress, who portrays his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, opened up to Empire magazine about how they built trust while shooting the Ridley Scott-directed historical drama.
charting a swift and brutal rise to power. The narrative focuses on Napoleon Bonaparte’s hot-and-cold relationship with his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby), and the fallout from the couple’s tortuous divorce.
Napoleon co-star Vanessa Kirby on set to “surprise” her, as part of a pact they’d made.The actor, who portrays the titular character in Ridley Scott’s upcoming biopic about the French military commander, hits his fictional wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby) in a heated divorce scene.Phoenix and Kirby explained to Empire that they’d agreed to shock each other whilst filming to ensure that the movie didn’t feel like a boring, overly planned biopic.“We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby said. “When that happens, you can faithfully go through an archival re-enactment of it and read out the lines and then go home.
Joaquin Phoenix is opening up about working with Vanessa Kirby in Ridley Scott‘s Napoleon.
Ridley Scott has revealed Joaquin Phoenix “didn’t know what to do” two weeks before filming was set to begin on Napoleon.The new film, which will be released in UK cinemas on November 22, sees Phoenix play the lead role of Napoleon Bonaparte.Speaking about the Joker actor ahead of filming, Scott told Empire: “He’ll come in, and you’re fucking two weeks’ out, and he’ll say, ‘I don’t know what to do’. I’ll say, ‘What?!’ ‘I don’t know what to do.’ Oh God. I said, ‘Come in, sit down.’ We sat for 10 days, all day, talking scene by scene.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby told Empire magazine they made a pact to shock each other while filming Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” in order to ensure the film did not feel like a boring, overly-planned biopic. This agreement led Phoenix to slap Kirby during the filming of a heated divorce scene between their characters, Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empire reports. “We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby said.
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