Joaquin Phoenix gives a rare interview about his brother River's sudden death back in 1993 - watch here: https://t.co/1jh89TFVjF
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) January 13, 2020
Joaquin Phoenix sat down with Anderson Cooper for a rare interview on 60 Minutes where he talked about his brother’s death back in 1993.
River was only 23 when he died of a drug overdose outside of The Viper Room in 1993. Joaquin was 19 and he with his brother at the time.
Joaquin was also joined by his entire family and they discussed the effect River's passing has had on them. Joaquin talks about how invasive the press was and how it impacted the family's grief process.
Joaquin told Anderson that it was River who introduced him to acting and that he feels River's death has impacted his all of his movies.
“I feel like in virtually every movie that I made, there was a connection to River in some way,” Joaquin said. “And I think that we’ve all felt his presence and guidance in our lives in numerous ways.”
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January 14 2020, 03:34:47 UTC 1 year ago
grief is a weird thing to process.
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January 15 2020, 01:07:30 UTC 1 year ago
It sometimes hits me like a whiplash how he was here one day and one day he wasn’t
January 14 2020, 03:36:42 UTC 1 year ago
i can't even imagine having your life under such a microscope when something so tragic happens to your family. i remember that a photog snuck into the funeral home river was in and took a photo of his body that ran in magazines(i think i'm remembering the story correctly). just awful.
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January 14 2020, 04:21:45 UTC 1 year ago
I'm usually very practical about it now because it all just becomes a part of you, but sometimes I just get really angry and upset about the unfairness of it all.
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January 14 2020, 05:05:51 UTC 1 year ago
And I totally agree on the concept of grieving and it not having a timeline. I can have days where I am fine. Then I could be doing something so simple like painting my nails or laundry and the tears will pour out of my eyes. I can’t imagine how their family has dealt with nearly 27 years of not having their son/brother. It horrifies me to think that I’ll wake up one day in the future and think “wow.. it’s been “this many years” since I last saw you..”.
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January 14 2020, 05:11:06 UTC 1 year ago
I’m too young to remember much about this but Natalie Merchant’s song about him makes me FEEL things.
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January 14 2020, 05:22:43 UTC 1 year ago
So I wrote all of that to get to this part: a friend talked me into watching Stand By Me at the end of last year, and I got through the whole thing thinking I was doing fine, then got to the reveal at the very end of the movie, the credits roll, and boom I'm sobbing. Over both the movie and the fact that River himself died so young, I guess. It seems strange to say about a guy who died thirty years ago, who I never met, but there really was something special about him. I see why people still grieve him.
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