At the Hollywood premiere of Joker: Folie a Deux, Rooney Mara stands with her husband Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix’s film Joker: Folie à Deux had its Hollywood debut on Monday at the TCL Chinese Theater, featuring a rare appearance by Rooney Mara and her husband.
Despite declining to pose on the red carpet beside the 49-year-old Oscar winner, the 39-year-old actress—who allegedly changed her last name to Phoenix in 2020—showed her support for his project.
Joaquin recently revealed on Sunday’s Talk Easy podcast session with Sam Fragaso that Rooney, who was born Patricia, was his “wife.” After welcoming their second child in June, Mara styled her postpartum figure in a tea-length black dress with several straps and ankle strap pumps that stylist Ryan Hastings had chosen.
The two-time Oscar nominee’s middle-parted top bun was styled by hairstylist Adir Abergel, while makeup artist Kate Lee highlighted her baby blues, emphasized her brows, and added a pop of color to her lip.
Relying on groomer Carlos Ferraz, Phoenix looked great in a classic black suit and bowtie, complete with sparkling Oxfords and $385 Garrett Leight ‘Ace Sun’ shades.
Born Bottom, Phoenix is also the mother of River Mara Phoenix, a four-year-old son named after Joaquin’s older brother, who passed away on Halloween 1993 at the age of twenty-three from a morphine and cocaine overdose.
“I adore it.” I’m really fond of it. Last year, Rooney extolled the virtues of motherhood on the LaunchLeft Podcast, saying, “I think it’s the best thing in the world.”
Since I didn’t work for the first three and a half years that we were together, it doesn’t feel like a two-actor house. Basically, in the time that we have been dating, I have only worked once or twice, and that one job was quite brief. We talk about creative things all the time; it feels like a creative household.
Playing lovers Theodore Twombly and Catherine Klausen on the Los Angeles set of Spike Jonze’s AI rom-com, The Phoenixes first came together in 2012. her, although their relationship didn’t begin until after her 2016 breakup with Charlie McDowell, her director of Discovery.
The acting duo later appeared together in the 2018 comedies Gus Van Sant and Garth Davis, as well as the Biblical drama Mary Magdalene. He won’t go very far on foot, so don’t worry.
Along with co-producing Alex Lockwood’s 2022 pandemic documentary The End of Medicine and Jonah Hill’s 2022 therapy documentary Stutz, Rooney and Joaquin also co-narrated Chris Delforce’s 2018 vegan documentary Dominion.
Although Phoenix (born Bottom) and Mara are still “all committed to” costarring in Pawel Pawlikowski’s next film The Island, “it doesn’t look like that will happen this year,” Mara told Deadline in February.
But first, on October 25 in restricted US theaters and December 26 in UK theaters, viewers may see the New York native in the Times Square kitchen drama La Cocina, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, as waitress Julia.
A $20 million salary was secured for the Grammy winner to return to his Oscar-winning role as the psychotic comedian Arthur Fleck/Joker in Todd Phillips’ $190 million dollar follow-up Joker: Folie à Deux, which opens in theaters this Friday in the US and the UK.
The 138-minute insane jukebox musical was predicted by Deadline on Tuesday to gross $140 million in its first weekend worldwide, including $55 million to $60 million in 4K US theaters.
In addition, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Zazie Beetz, Jacob Lofland, Catherine Keener, and Harry Lawtey are included.
Joker: Folie à Deux has received a 60% critic approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes so far (based on 58 reviews).
Despite receiving negative reviews, the first Joker movie from 1981 became the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever in 2019 when it took home $1.079 billion at the global box office.
