![]() ![]() Undeterred, Sluizer recut and completed Dark Blood, which premiered at several European film festivals in 2012. Sluizer also reached out to Joaquin in the hopes that he could serve as a verbal stand-in for his brother during those narrations, but he- along with the entire Phoenix family- refused to participate in the film in any way. That film was Dark Blood, a thriller that co-starred veteran actors Judy Davis ( Husbands and Wives) and Jonathan Pryce ( Pirates of the Caribbean).Īfter being abandoned for almost two decades due to so many key scenes missing that River never got to shoot, director George Sluizer decided that the film could be salvaged and completed via some narration on his part to explain the missing plot points. This unfortunate phenomenon was most recently seen when Paul Walker's brothers had to serve as his stand-in for some of his unfinished scenes in Furious 7 following his fatal car accident.įor as prolific of an actor River was becoming in his early-20s, it's actually somewhat surprising that he only left one unfinished movie behind when he lost his life at only 23-years-old. Hollywood has many examples of actors who passed away during the production of a movie, leaving filmmakers to figure out creative ways to get it finished anyway. Even from their earliest roles, none of them ever had acting credits using their original last names- which means you aren't going to find any early-80s movies or TV shows with the name "River Bottom" in their cast lists. The timing couldn't have been better, as it would only be three years before the Phoenix children began scoring professional acting gigs. In fact, in 1979, after youngest child Summer was born, parents John and Arlyn Bottom decided to change their family's last name to "Phoenix." The name was deliberately chosen for its mythical connotations of rising from the ashes, as the family was then at a point where they were looking for a rebirth of some kind after a few years of hardship. The late actor and musician actually had a rather amusing name for the first nine years of his life: River Bottom.įortunately, River's parents didn't try and make their subsequent children's names match that surname in a funny way- he didn't have a sister named Apple or brother named Rock, hilarious as that would have been. ![]() As it turns out, River's name was changed at a certain point- but not his first name. Is there a more perfect name for a hot young Hollywood superstar in the late-80s and early-90s? Most people would've had to change their real name in order to have a name that cool. ![]() She was also briefly married to a Hollywood A-lister.Īdditionally, according to the Joaquin Phoenix biography He's Still Here, the Phoenix's also have a half-sister name Jodean via a relationship their father was in before meeting their mother. Lastly, Summer Joy Phoenix is the biggest actor of the Phoenix girls, with over two dozen film and television credits to her name including two feature films currently in post-production. Liberty Mariposa Phoenix has had the most low-key public life of any of the Phoenix children, quitting acting by age 10 and mostly doing fashion and charity work in recent years. While Rain has done some acting, appearing in movies like Shakespeare adaptation O and the Will Smith comedy Hitch, her most enduring passion has definitely been that of a musician. Rain Joan of Arc Phoenix, which is a proud name to have even if it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, has mostly chosen music for her career path. In case you were wondering, yes, all of the aforementioned Phoenix family names are their actual, legal names- in fact, wait until you hear their middle names! The Phoenix sisters are, in order of oldest to youngest: Rain, Liberty, and Summer. Perhaps you're even familiar with them, or have seen them in movies and/or TV shows and not necessarily realized who they are. In the introduction, we teased Joaquin and River having sisters. ![]()
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