By Iain Blair

Not sure what to make of Joaquin Phoenix’s latest strange trip into rap! I’ve talked to him many times over the years and he was always so happy to talk about music and was proud to do all his own vocals for the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic hit Walk the Line, a role that won him an Oscar nom and a Grammy. So, when he recently announced he was quitting acting for a full-time music career, it made some sense – sort of. But after his bizarre 12-minute ‘rap’ at Lavo in Las Vegas, and then his even more bizarre appearance on Letterman, maybe a rethink is in order. His brief performance left most of the crowd totally mystified. I think that while he’s serious about his love of music, this reinvention as a rapper may just be a cinema verite-style hoax – especially as pal and bro-in-law Casey Affleck is busy shooting a doc about the whole experience.

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