Every day without fail, we wake up and hope that Joaquin Phoenix's beard was just part of some horrible nightmare brought on by the blue cheese sauce we ate the night before – but alas, it doesn't look as if the offensive hairy thing is going anywhere. Joaquin has been discussing his reasons for the whole "beardy" look, saying, "People know me as this kind of thing, and in some ways I don't know that this is my look. It's been important for me to just do something that's extreme – that really separates me from that public Joaquin Phoenix persona, whatever the fuck that is. Or maybe I'm just lazy." Hmm, well, he's certainly done something pretty "extreme". If it's all just down to laziness, Joaquin, we'd be quite willing to fly over and shave it all off for you...? The wannabe rapper has also confirmed yet again that he has no plans to return to acting, saying, "I'm not one of those people, like, when I break up with my girlfriend, I don't ever see her again. I see her as friends, but do I ever think about getting back together? No, when I do something, I do it." That told us. Later in the same interview, Joaquin also talked about his struggle to be taken seriously as a rapper, explaining rather sadly, "No matter how good it is, people are going to make fun of me. It's just impossible." Awww, poor Joaquin. We tell you what, if you promise to rid your beautiful face of any trace of that caveman beard, we'll promise to buy all your albums.
Joaquin explains the beard