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Rooney MaraandJoaquin Phoenixare takingtheir romanceto the big screen.
On Monday, FilmNation announced that Mara, 37, and Phoenix, 47, who made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2017Cannes Film Festival, will star in lead roles in director Pawel Pawlikowski’s next movie. The movie currently uses the working titleThe Island, according toThe Hollywood ReporterandVariety.
“Psychological warfare ensues between the countess and the American couple as sexual infidelity, betrayal and eventually murder takes place among the island interlopers,” reads a synopsis for the film, perTHR.
“Pawel Pawlikowski is one of the world’s greatest filmmakers working today,” FilmNation CEO Glen Basner toldTHR. “Pawel bringing this story of jealousy, betrayal and murder in a Garden of Eden is exactly what we all need to drive audiences back to the cinema.”
Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix.VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
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Phoenix and Mara first met in 2012 on the set ofHer, in which Mara played Phoenix’s ex-wife.Phoenix toldVanity Fairin 2019 that he thought Mara didn’t like him at all, but it turned out she was just shy.
“She’s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet,“he saidat the time. “We were just friends, e-mail friends. I’d never done that. Never looked up a girl online.”
The couple also costarred in 2016’sMary Magdalene, in which Mara played the titular role, and Phoenix portrayed Jesus. Mara and Phoenix got engaged privately in 2019, and rumors of an engagement sparked when Mara wasphotographed wearing a large diamond ringon her left hand.
In September 2020, Mara and Phoenixwelcomed their first child, a son named River, named afterPhoenix’s late brother who died in 1993.
source: people.com
