Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix in 2020
VALERIE MACON / AFPJoaquin Phoenix there have been rumors that he may be silent and make vows Rooney Mara.
Sunday, September 29, episode of the “Talk Easy” podcast hosted by a writer and filmmaker Sam FragosoPhoenix, 49, called Mara, 39, his “wife”.
Phoenix and Fragoso were discussing Phoenix’s 2020 Oscars acceptance speech about his 2019 career. The Joker while Phoenix revealed that he got the inspiration for his lyrics from “talking to my mom and my wife.”
I Joker: Folie in Deux The actor then elaborated on how he prepared his Oscar acceptance speech, referring to Mara, who announced on February 29 that she is expecting the couple’s second child, named after him.
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“Rooney was like, ‘That’s what you have to say,'” Phoenix told Fragoso.
The couple, who have a son, River, born in 2020, got engaged in July 2019. The couple dated for several years after reuniting in 2018. Mary Magdalene in which Mara played the title character of the film alongside Phoenix, who played Jesus. Mara and Phoenix appeared together in the 2013 film Healthough it is not clear when they first met.
Phoenix said Vanity Fair in an interview published on October 1, 2019, and published in the November 2019 issue of the magazine, that he thought Mara “disrespected” him when they were together on set. He. He told the newspaper that he later realized that Mara was “just shy” and loved him.
“She’s the only girl I’ve ever looked at online,” he told the outlet. “We were just friends, emailing each other friends. I had never done that. Never look for a girl online. “
Fast forward to 2024 and said the source Us Weekly it was only in February that the couple was “overjoyed” to welcome a second child into their family.
Although River may seem like an unusual baby name, it has become very popular in Hollywood. When Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara welcomed their first child in September 2020, the couple decided to name their son River in honor of his late Oscar-winning brother, River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at the age of 23 from drug addiction. […]
“Rooney and Joaquin love being parents,” said the source Us at that time. “They are a team and they are really enjoying this journey together.”
Mara revealed her baby bump for the first time at the premiere of the film at the Berlin International Film Festival La Cocina on February 16 while taking pictures on the red carpet of the event.
For the couple’s first child, River, whose name is a nod to Phoenix’s late brother, Phoenix Riversaid the source Us in May 2021 that the young man has changed the couple’s lives.
“The river improved their lives more than they thought and brought them closer,” said the source at the time. “They are an independent couple and want River to be raised in a normal, healthy way.”