10 Actors About To Give Their Most Insane Performance EVER
2. Joaquin Phoenix - Beau Is Afraid
To be completely fair to Joaquin Phoenix, he's one of the most adventurous and unpredictable actors working today, and it'll take some serious doing to top the insanity of his Oscar-winning performance as Arthur Fleck in Joker.
But he just might pull it off when he pairs with Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster for his next project, a surrealist horror-comedy called Beau Is Afraid.
The recently released first trailer looks, well, bats**t cuckoo bananas - there's really no other way to describe it. Phoenix will play Beau, a deeply anxious man who travels home following his overbearing mother's (Patti LuPone) death.
The trailer doesn't give much of the plot away but expertly sets the mood, while persuading that Phoenix is going to give a performance that'll quite effortlessly one-up Joker.
From a manic portrayal of mental illness to the utterly hallucinogenic journey his character appears to go on, complete with Phoenix donning old man makeup to play an older Beau, it's going to be one hell of a trip to watch.