“I found him to be a much more complex person than I imagined,” Joaquin Phoenix says of his titular character in “Napoleon”
When Scott Ridley saw Joaquin Phoenix’s Academy Award ®- winning performance in Joker, the director was reminded of their collaboration on Gladiator, and he knew that Phoenix would be perfect for the nominal part in his new film Napoleon “ I saw him and it all came submerging back – how we worked on Gladiator, and what trip he went on with that character, and I allowed , ‘ God damn, there’s Napoleon. ’” Phoenix admits that he didn’t know important about the iconic French emperor before joining the design, and was surprised at some angles of the character that he discovered. “ I set up him […]