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How Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby kept it spicy on the ‘Napoleon’ set
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charting a swift and brutal rise to power. The narrative focuses on Napoleon Bonaparte’s hot-and-cold relationship with his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby), and the fallout from the couple’s tortuous divorce.
In one particularly heated scene, Phoenix even delivers Kirby an unscripted slap.Speaking to Empire magazine, the stars claimed that the ability to shock one another was the secret to their success.“We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Pieces of a Woman,” said. “When that happens, you can faithfully go through an archival re-enactment of it and read out the lines and then go home.
But we always wanted to surprise each other.”It isn’t hard to imagine that a dense period drama like “Napoleon” might collapse under its own weight — or collapse under the weight of Bonaparte’s hat — so the actors sought ways to inject some life into their scenes. That meant trusting each other to make creative decisions that might verge on violent.Kirby explained, “It’s the greatest thing when you have a creative partner and you say, ‘Right, everything’s safe.
I’m with you. And we’re gonna go to the dark places together.'”Four-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner Phoenix, meanwhile, gave props to his on-screen paramour for her gumption: “She said, ‘Look, whatever you feel, you can do.’ I said, ‘Same with you.'”Phoenix elaborated, “She said, ‘You can slap me, you can grab me, you can pull me, you can kiss me, whatever it is.’ So we had this agreement that we were going to surprise each other.”Director Scott has previously spoken of the unwieldiness of the work he’s attempting to pull together, telling Empire of Bonaparte, “I compare him with
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Joaquin Phoenix slapped his co-star Vanessa Kirby on the set of their upcoming movie "Napoleon" after the two made an agreement to "shock each other" during filming. The 48-year-old Academy Award winner, who plays Napoleon Bonaparte and the 35-year-old "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One" actress, who portrays his wife Josephine de Beauharnais, opened up to Empire magazine about how they built trust while shooting the Ridley Scott-directed historical drama.
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