Joaquin Phoenix Takes the Stage - As a Rapper?
Ex-actor wants to go into hip-hop, will collaborate with P. Diddy.
Former actor Joaquin Phoenix made his onstage debut as a rapper on Friday, People reports. He took the stage of Las Vegas club LAVO and started what appears to be his new career.
"After all the years of reading scripts and reading lines, this is my chance to do something straight from the heart and put it out there," he told the magazine.
Phoenix, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for portraying Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, had announced the end of his acting career in October.
Phoenix will purportedly collaborate with a number of well-known names to jump-start his rapping career. Actor Casey Affleck (who is also Phoenix's brother-in-law) will shoot a documentary about Phoenix's way into the music world, and his upcoming hip-hop album will be produced by none other than Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Phoenix told People that he is very serious about his new vocation. Yet, he seems to be the only one really believing in him. Numerous people have wondered if Phoenix isn't playing a trick on all of us.
"If this is all a joke, this is maybe the best joke ever perpetrated by an actor," opines Rolling Stone's Daniel Kreps.
