Joaquin Phoenix Calls Long-Time Love Rooney Mara His ‘Spouse’, Triggers Marital Relationship Speculation

Joaquin Phoenix has actually stimulated reports that he might have silently exchanged promises with Rooney Mara

Throughout the Sunday, September 29, episode of the “Talk Easy” podcast hosted by author and filmmaker Sam Fragoso, Phoenix, 49, identified Mara, 39, his “partner.”

Phoenix and Fragoso had actually been talking about Phoenix’s 2020 Finest Star Oscars approval speech for his operate in 2019’s Joker when Phoenix exposed he had actually discovered motivation for his words through “talking with my mama and my partner.”

The Joker: Folie à Deux star then broadened on how he prepared his approval speech must he win the Oscar, describing Mara, who revealed on February 29 that she was anticipating the couple’s 2nd kid, by her given name.

” Rooney resembled, ‘That’s what you must state’,” Phoenix informed Fragoso.

The couple, who share a kid, River, born in 2020, got taken part in July 2019. The set had actually dated for numerous years after reconnecting on the set of 2018’s Mary Magdalene where Mara played the movie’s title character along with Phoenix, who depicted Jesus. Mara and Phoenix appeared together in the 2013 movie Her, although it is uncertain when they initially fulfilled.

Phoenix informed Vanity Fair in an interview released on October 1, 2019, and printed in the publication’s November 2019 problem, that he had actually believed Mara “disliked” him throughout their time together on the set of Her He informed the outlet that he later on understood Mara was “simply shy” and liked him.

” She’s the only woman I ever searched for on the web,” he informed the outlet. “We were simply buddies, e-mail buddies. I ‘d never ever done that. Never ever searched for a woman online.”

Fast-forward to 2024 and a source informed United States Weekly specifically in February that the couple were “overjoyed” to be inviting a 2nd kid into their household.

” Rooney and Joaquin enjoy being moms and dads,” a source informed United States at the time. “They’re a group and are actually enjoying this journey together.”

Mara debuted her child bump at the Berlin International Movie Celebration best of La Cocina on February 16 while positioning for images on the occasion’s red carpet.

Of the couple’s very first kid, River, whose name nods to Phoenix’s late bro, River Phoenix, a source informed United States in Might 2021 that the child has actually altered the couple’s lives.

” River has actually improved their lives more than they have actually ever thought of and has actually brought them more detailed together,” the source stated at the time. “They’re an extremely personal couple and desire River to have a regular, healthy training.”