Joaquin Phoenix slapped the Co-Star Vanessa Kirby for "shocking"
The actors agreed to trust themselves by spinning their new film Napoleon.
When the next historic biopic Napoleon Hits in theaters, this will include unicenized moments. In a new interview with Empire , stars Joaquin Phoenix And Vanessa Kirby -Who's playing Napoleon Bonaparte And Joséphine de Beauharnais - said they had concluded an agreement to "shock" during their scenes. Before filming, they mutually decided that they wanted to create unexpected moments in the film and therefore did not need to know in advance exactly what the other was going to do in a given scene. This led to an incident in which Phoenix slapped Kirby during a tense exchange between their characters.
Read the rest to see what the actors had to say about their approach to the film - which arrives in theaters on November 22 - and why the surprise slap was not a problem for Kirby.
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Phoenix and Kirby play the French emperor and empress.
In Napoleon , of the director Ridley Scott , Phoenix plays in the title role while Kirby plays the first wife of Napoleon, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Napoleon and Joséphine were married from 1976 to 1810. During this period, they became the Emperor and the Empress of France, as well as the King and the Queen of Italy.
Although Napoleon can remember many things, including his military campaigns, with regard to his relationship with Joséphine, their heritage is the love letters he sent her, which were then published. When Joséphine and Napoleon ended their marriage, Napoleon married the archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
Phoenix slapped Kirby without warning during filming.
It was during the divorce scene of Napoleon and Joséphine for the film which Phoenix slapped Kirby .
"We use the real words of their divorce in the church," said Kirby Empire to film the scene. "When this happens, you can faithfully go through a reconstruction of archives and read the lines and then go home. But we always wanted to surprise us."
THE Crown Star continued: "It's the best thing when you have a creative partner and you say:" Okay, everything is certain. I am with you. And we are going to go to dark places together. ""
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They gave each other to be physical.
In the same interview, Phoenix said that he and Kirby agreed that they did not want their scenes to feel too choreographed and rather surprised. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"She said," Listen, whatever you feel, you can do "," said Phoneix about her co-star. "I said," Same thing with you. "She said," You can slap me, you can grab me, you can shoot me, you can kiss me, anything. We therefore had this agreement that we were going to surprise each other and try to create moments that Were not there, because we both wanted to avoid the cliché of the drama of the period. And I mean moments that are well orchestrated and designed. "
The winner of an Oscar added the complex relationship of their characters. "We have never really arrived at the bottom. In a few moments. And that's what came out, this moment."
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The actors both intensely prepared for the film.
In an interview in May with Harper bazaar UNITED KINGDOM, Kirby talked about the preparation It started playing joséphine before she was on the set.
"I entered her so much, I read all the books. I went to her house and at her grave," said Kirby. "You go to the tomb of Napoleon and it is literally enormous, as beyond, and his is tiny, in the corner of a church, well outside Paris. This woman had the most extraordinary life. You could do 10 hours on her, but he was the one who fought all the battles. "
As for Phoenix, Scott explained how he shaped the film in an interview of December 2022 with Empire. "Joaquin is roughly as far as possible." He did [ Napoleon ] Special by constantly questioning. ""
Scott added that it led to changes in the script. "With Joaquin, we can rewrite the [Expletive] film because it is uncomfortable. And this genre occurred with Napoleon ", He said." We smashed the film to help him focus on who was Bonaparte. I had to respect this, because what was said was incredibly constructive. It was more and more Large and better. "
