Joaquin Phoenix Announces His Retirement!

At a Paul Newman benefit on Monday, Joaquin Phoenix dropped quite the bomb on the TV show Extra:

“I want to take this opportunity… also to give you the exclusive and just talk a little bit about the fact that this will be my last performance as an actor… I’m not doing films anymore.”
“Extra’s” Jerry Penacoli, shocked by the news, further probed Joaquin. “Are you serious?” Phoenix, who was curiously being followed by his own camera crews, reiterated, “Yeah. I’m working on my music. I’m done. I’ve been through that.”
Actor Casey Affleck, present during the admission, tells “Extra”, “I don’t think he’s kidding. He’s got music and stuff.”

We mentioned a few months back that Phoenix was working on an album.
Guess it’s very, very ‘serious’ stuff.
When his rep was contacted about Phoenix’s proclamation, their response was, “That├é┬áis what he told me.”
Whatever. We have a funny feeling it’s going to play out like this…
He’ll release his ‘music’, no one will buy his stuff, and then he’ll make a big deal out of his ‘acting’ comeback.
Thespians are so overly dramatic!
[Image via WENN.]