Actress Reese Witherspoon is one skeptic who is questioning whether Joaquin Phoenix's decision to leave acting to pursue a career as a hobo mess rapper is an elaborate hoax.
Reese, who worked with Joaquin in the Johnny Cash bioflick "Walk the Line" and has known him for a long time, thinks the actor's recent antics of walking around as a sloven, mumbling, smelly, raggedy, lice-infested, stinky-breath hip hop "artist" must be a put-on.
What's the tell-tale sign? Because the artsy hoax is being totally filmed!
His good buddy and brother-in-law Casey Affleck (brother of Ben) has been following Joaquin around for several months as the budding rapper turned in an awful debut gig at a Las Vegas nightclub, and was present last night when Joaquin mumbled his way through a 10-minute guest spot on the David Letterman show.
At the end of the segment, Letterman thanks him with, "Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight."
Quite a few insiders are claiming that Joaquin's rap career is a hoax. One source told Entertainment Weekly that the actor admitted to him that it was all an act.
"[Joaquin] said, 'It's a put-on. I'm going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it,'" the source said.
But how far will he take it?
