Joaquin Phoenix’s In-House Recording Studio

Because you never know when the muse will strike you.

Joaquin Phoenix is so serious about his music; he had a recording studio installed in his house.

Director James Gray, who worked with Phoenix on his purported last film, Two Lovers, as well as We Own the Night, thinks that’s the best proof this new rap career of Joaquin’s is the real deal.

Gray says, “If he’s not serious about it, then he really went to ridiculous lengths.”

As far as ever going back to acting if (and by “if” we mean “when”) his music career tanks, Phoenix says, “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 a friend, but do I ever think about getting back together? No, when I do something, I do it. So, I have no intention (to return to acting).”

Words to eat by.

—Sasha Perl-Raver