It seems no role is impossible for Joaquin Phoenix.
The seasoned actor, who has earned his stripes with such roles as Johnny Cash in Walk The Line, is no stranger to playing biographical figures.
But his next film, Mary Magdalene, has turned heads nonetheless.
Set in the Holy Land in the first century, it tells the story of a young woman joining a new social movement led by Jesus of Nazareth – and the 43-year-old portrays the Messiah himself.
“When you first start [a film], so many people have so many different expectations, and you imagine what the expectations are,” notes the American actor, who was born in Puerto Rico.
“Every film that I do, there’s a point where I say, ‘Well, this is mine now, and I have to find a way to internalise this and just have this experience’.
“I can’t perform other people’s expectations.”
Phoenix is a busy man right now – after a two-year break from acting, he can also be seen in cinemas currently as a traumatised soldier in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here.
“It was strange because it just went from nothing to these movies that I couldn’t say no to,” he reflects of his return to the silver screen.
“It just happened that way. I’d never done that much but I think working with the filmmakers and the actors was so inspiring, so that fuelled me.”
In Mary Magdalene, he stars opposite his real-life girlfriend Rooney Mara (she takes on the…
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