Two things you may not have known about Joaquin Phoenix: this week he announced that he will not act again. Two Lovers, also directed by James Gray of We Own the Night, will be his last movie. Apparently he has in the past retired from acting for a period only to return. Perhaps he will do the same again, but for now we can say that it is a great loss to the film world.
The second thing you may not know is that in 2006 he was involved in a bad accident that flipped his car over. Lying in the wreck, he heard someone tapping on his window and a voice say 'Just relax'. Unable to see the man, he replied, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed'. Then he managed to see who it was: the director Werner Herzog, who replied, 'No, you're not'. After helping Phoenix out of the wreckage, Herzog phoned in an ambulance and disappeared.
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