Rooney Mara made a rare appearance with her husband Joaquin Phoenix at the Hollywood premiere of his movie Joker: Folie à Deux, which was held at the TCL Chinese Theater on Monday.
The 39-year-old actress – who reportedly changed her surname to Phoenix in 2020 – decided not to pose on the black carpet with the 49-year-old Oscar winner but she, nevertheless, showed her support for his project.
Joaquin just confirmed Rooney (born Patricia) was his ‘wife’ during Sunday’s episode of Sam Fragaso’s podcast Talk Easy.
Mara welcomed their second child in June, and she dressed her post-baby body in a multi-strapped black tea-length dress and ankle strap pumps selected by stylist Ryan Hastings.
Hairstylist Adir Abergel coiffed the two-time Oscar nominee’s middle-parted top bun and make-up artist Kate Lee defined her brows, brought out her baby blues, and applied a hint of color on her lip.
Rooney Mara made a rare appearance with her husband Joaquin Phoenix at the Hollywood premiere of his movie Joker: Folie à Deux, which was held at the TCL Chinese Theater on Monday
The 39-year-old actress – who reportedly changed her surname to Phoenix in 2020 – decided not to pose on the black carpet with the 49-year-old Oscar winner but she, nevertheless, showed her support for his project
Phoenix – who relies on groomer Carlos Ferraz – looked dapper in a classic black suit and necktie with patent leather Oxfords and $385 Garrett Leight ‘Ace Sun’ shades.
Phoenix (born Bottom) and the two-time Oscar nominee are also parents of four-year-old son River Mara Phoenix named after Joaquin’s big brother who died, age 23, from an overdose of morphine and cocaine on Halloween 1993.
‘I love it. I love it so much. I think it’s the best thing in the world,’ Rooney gushed of motherhood on the LaunchLeft Podcast last year.
‘It doesn’t feel like a two-actor house because I didn’t work for the first three and a half years we were together. Basically since we’ve been together, I only worked one or two times and one was really small and short. It feels like a creative household, we’re constantly talking about creative things.’
The Phoenixes originally met in 2012 playing lovers Theodore Twombly and Catherine Klausen on the LA set of Spike Jonze’s AI rom-com Her, but they didn’t start dating until after her 2016 split from her Discovery director Charlie McDowell.
The acting couple went on to co-star in Garth Davis’ 2018 Biblical drama Mary Magdalene and Gus Van Sant’s 2018 comedy Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.
Rooney and Joaquin also co-narrated Chris Delforce’s 2018 vegan documentary Dominion as well as co-producing Alex Lockwood’s 2022 pandemic documentary The End of Medicine and Jonah Hill’s 2022 therapy documentary Stutz.
Mara told Deadline in February that she and Phoenix (born Bottom) are still ‘all committed to’ co-starring in Pawel Pawlikowski’s upcoming film The Island but ‘it doesn’t look like that will happen this year.’
But first, audiences can catch the New York native as waitress Julia in Alonso Ruizpalacios’ Times Square kitchen drama La Cocina, which hits limited US theaters October 25 and UK theaters December 26.
Rooney (born Patricia) welcomed their second child in June, and she dressed her post-baby body in a multi-strapped black tea-length dress and ankle strap pumps selected by stylist Ryan Hastings
Hairstylist Adir Abergel coiffed Mara’s middle-parted top bun and make-up artist Kate Lee defined her brows, brought out her baby blues, and applied a hint of color on her lip
Joaquin – who relies on groomer Carlos Ferraz – looked dapper in a classic black suit and necktie with patent leather Oxfords and $385 Garrett Leight ‘Ace Sun’ shades
Phoenix (born Bottom) and the two-time Oscar nominee are also parents of four-year-old son River Mara Phoenix named after Joaquin’s big brother who died, age 23, from an overdose of morphine and cocaine on Halloween 1993
Joaquin scored a $20M paycheck to reprise his Oscar-winning role as psychopathic comedian Arthur Fleck/Joker in Todd Phillips’ $190M-budget sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, which hits US/UK theaters this Friday
On Tuesday, Deadline projected the 138-minute demented jukebox musical to earn $140M worldwide opening weekend including $55M-$60M at 4K US theaters
Meanwhile, the Grammy winner scored a $20M paycheck to reprise his Oscar-winning role as psychopathic comedian Arthur Fleck/Joker in Todd Phillips’ $190M-budget sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, which hits US/UK theaters this Friday.
On Tuesday, Deadline projected the 138-minute demented jukebox musical to earn $140M worldwide opening weekend including $55M-$60M at 4K US theaters.
It also features Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, and Harry Lawtey.
Thus far, Joker: Folie à Deux has a 60% critic approval rating (out of 58 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.
The 1981-set first film Joker made history in 2019 as the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, amassing $1.079B at the global box office despite mixed reviews.
