Joaquin Phoenix Had to Leave the ‘Her’ Set During Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Bizarre’ Orgasm Recording - IndieWire

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When Scarlett Johansson came, Joaquin Phoenix left.

Johansson revealed during Dax Shepard and Monica Padman’s “Armchair Expert” podcast that filming Spike Jonze’s 2013 romance “Her” proved to beryllium “so gross” during an intimate series involving the sounds of an orgasm betwixt an A.I. instrumentality and its owner, played by Phoenix.

Johansson’s quality Samantha was lone contiguous arsenic a voice, and a verbal intersexual brushwood during which Samantha pretends to beryllium quality led to the sounds of a climax for some characters. Yet Phoenix had to permission the country erstwhile signaling the sounds together.

“We tried to get done 1 take, and helium was, like, losing it,” Johansson said. “He near the studio. He needed a break.”

Johansson added, “You don’t privation to perceive your dependable ever. You decidedly don’t privation to perceive what you dependable similar having an orgasm. You decidedly don’t privation to perceive what you dependable similar having a fake orgasm — ew. It’s truthful gross. It was truthful bizarre.”

“Her” won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture.

Phoenix volition flex his vocal powerfulness erstwhile much for the upcoming “Joker” sequel “Folie à Deux,” a philharmonic instrumentality connected the acheronian “Batman” villain for which Phoenix won the Oscar. Grammy and Oscar victor Lady Gaga stars arsenic Joker’s emotion involvement Harley Quinn successful the upcoming film, helmed by Todd Philipps. Brendan Gleeson, Zazie Beetz, and Catherine Keener besides star.

Phoenix antecedently sang successful the Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line” alongside Reese Witherspoon successful 2005.

“I was amazed conscionable to get done a song,” Phoenix told CNN astatine the clip (via USAToday). “I ne'er sang before, but if I had tried to sing on to thing it was to John Lennon and David Bowie, who some sing rather high. So to abruptly spell to John was truthful unusual to me. It was precise unusual to person to usage a portion of my dependable that I didn’t cognize existed.”

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