Joaquin Phoenix in free hands

It’s all about love maintains Thomas Vinterberg about his new movie, which of the same reason is called “It’s all about love”. Because it mainly will have to earn 80 million kroner (kroner is the Danish currency) in the English speaking part of the world.

But it wasn’t exactly love to the project and it’s future fate that was shown from one of the leading characters in the movie, Joaquin Phoenix, when 50 people from Scandinavia had been assembled for a press meeting in Trollhättan north of Göteborg. Where Vinterberg and co. At the moment is filming 12 hours a day.

Contempt

Cause while the movies other leading character, Claire Danes fought a heroic struggle to save and keep some of the self-respect, Joaquin Phoenix demonstrated a vertical contempt to the movies future audience with cheeky, affected and scornful answers. If he did answer.

“The truth is that I was in Trollhättan to make a documentary movie about snowy owls. Meanwhile we couldn’t get it financed, but when I already was here, I might as well be in Thomas’ movie” the American world-famous answered to his own joy on the question, why he’d chosen Vinterberg’s movie rather than one of the many other offers, he receives.

If you should compare the character John in “It’s all about love” with the character as Roman emperor in “Gladiator”, what?

“I won’t” Mr. Phoenix interrupted the asker.

“To compare characters is one of the most insane things to do in this world. So I won’t”, he answered, while Thomas Vinterberg and the movies producer, Birgitte Hald from Nimbus Film, obviously became attractive unwell in the panel. And the atmosphere corresponding became more frustrating in the hall.

Completely other talk

“Maybe we should have known that this would happen. He is famous for hating press meetings. But in his contract it is written explicitly that he has to promote for the movie. But guess in the future it shouldn’t happen that way” said Birgitte Hald to Politiken immediately after the chaotic seance.

Meanwhile Birgitte Hald could be happy about Claire Danes, cause she differently understood to sell the product.

“I take part of this movie, because it’s an outstanding manuscript, and because it’s Thomas Vinterberg who’s directing. “Festen” (Festen means “The party”) is one of my favorite movies, and I think it’s a big honor to work with Thomas, said Claire Danes, who’s almost feeling like she’s melting in all the creativity, the Danish director shows.

“He stimulates us all, and has the ability to push us in every direction. He’s great”

Feels Responsibility

Claire Danes have worked with Bille August before in “Les Miserables”, but she doesn’t wish to accentuate one of the director’s rather than the other.

“With Bille we were recording in Prague, and the crew was much bigger. In this movie it’s much more intimate, and I feel, that I understand the Danish culture much better now. It’s not the same edification, that there is on the big American productions. This is a much better way to work on, because you feel a huge responsibility to not disappoint the director”

“I actually play 4 different characters in “It’s all about love”, one of them is a Polish skate-princess. It’s a very beautiful history. Very traditional, but at the same time very experimenting. It can’t get more challenging for me, and I really feel that this movie brings me further in my development” said Claire Danes.

End of one man-show

How Joaquin Phoenix works with his character, what he puts in this movie, and why he’s working with Thomas Vinterberg, we aren’t told. Well not this time.

“I feel fine with meeting the press. Actually I haven’t had a better time since I came here” the actor ended his self-appointed one man-show, while he demonstrative clapped in his small hands.

May 31 2001 10.30 PM

Vinterbergs stars

Joaquin Phoenix, 27 years old

After different children-characters he had a break from the acting, Powerfully he returned in 1995 in “To die for”, where he’s acting with Nicole Kidman. Other remarkable performances in “Inventing the Abbots” with Liv Tyler, in “8MM” with Nicolas Cage, and in Oliver Stones’ “U-Turn” with Claire Danes

Latest he was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the ambitious Roman emperor Commodious in the 5 times Oscar winner “Gladiator” and he also played remarkable in “Quills” and “The Yards”.

Claire Danes, 22 years old

Breakthrough in 1994 in the TV-character as the 15 year-old girl Angela Chase in the TV-series “My so called life”. After this she starred in Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo & Juliet”, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Oliver Stones’ “U-Turn”, Francis Ford Coppolas’ “The Rainmaker”, Jodie Foster’s “Home for the holidays”, and Jonathan Kaplan’s “Brokedown palace”.

Next movie with Claire Danes in the leading part will be in Stephen Daldry’s “The hours” with Meryl Streep in it too.