Why julia fox isn’t as nice as you think? Who was she before kanye? why did she call
her ex husband a “deadbeat”? And Why did she hold a funeral for herself?
Julia Fox, then 27 years old, conducted a funeral for herself in 2017.
To be honest, she'd already lived more lives than most. She had been a mainstay of the New York
City club scene since her early teens, as well as an artist, fashion designer, photographer,
and muse, and this wasn't her first brush with death - she had nearly overdosed 10 years prior.
Nonetheless, the "RIP Julia Fox" art display, coordinated by Richie Shazam and including silk
canvases painted with her own blood, marked a new chapter in Fox's life. She's now 29, and she's
appearing alongside Adam Sandler, The Weeknd, Idina Menzel, Kevin Garnett, LaKeith Stanfield,
and Eric Bogosian in the upcoming Uncut Gems, directed by Josh and Benny Safdie (Good Time).
She has a long relationship with the brothers. After meeting Josh through their frequent
collaborator, producer Sebastian Bear-McClard (also known as Emily Ratajkowksi's husband),
she's known them for almost a decade. Uncut Gems has been in the works for almost as long.
The Safdies' passion project is a film about a New York diamond dealer named Howard Ratner (Sandler),
who is as irresponsible with his gambling debts as he is with the people he cares about.
During that nearly decade of work, it went through many variations — Josh Safdie recently
told Vice that he discovered 160 draughts on his computer. Sandler was only cast in April 2018,
and his performance is being praised as one of his greatest in years, with Oscar talk. Previously,
Jonah Hill was attached to the part. Fox's casting as Howard's mistress and employee,
created and named after her, hasn't changed. Julia is working in Howard's diamond district
showroom when we first meet her, and she's as much of an ornament as the high-end jewels
she's assisting him with selling. However, as the film unfolds, Fox's inherent personality
shines through, elevating her role from a dazzling accessory to an integral part of the plot. She was
more than that; she was the movie's crown jewel. Her feature film debut is Uncut Gems, but she
already knows Hollywood is in her destiny. She's written and directed Fantasy Girls, a short film
on child sex trafficking and kidnappings in Reno, and she's working on numerous more projects. And,
while she grew up in New York, she's eager for a new challenge. Refinery29 spoke with Fox in
a suite at New York's Whitby Hotel about Uncut Gems, which will be released on December 13th.
Did Julia's character evolve at all during the several draughts of the scripts?
“I think that [her] relationship [with Howard] was a little more toxic — she was a little seedier.
And as she evolved through the different scripts, [Josh and Benny Safdie] made her more dignified.
They didn’t want to paint her as the cliched mistress, bad girl.
In the end, you see that Julia is actually very level-headed and strong. She’s in-control,
determined, empowered, and powerful. She’s all these things that at first, when the
movie starts, you don’t realize.” julia says When asked if she related to the character,
julia said: “There are definitely parallels. While we were making the movie, it just kind
of clicked at one point. I was like, Wow I went through all of these experiences,
and all of these amazing things, terrible things, tragedies, whatever it may be, for this moment,
for this scene, for this movie. I was able to pull from those stored feelings; reenact them
and own them. It was all very authentic and real, and it really came from the heart.”
Although a lot of actors speak about how being an actor is a hard job and needs work and effort,
Julia has made it sound easier than passing a first-grade math test! “It was pretty easy,
I would say. It’s not rocket science. Just like act and react, and memorize your lines.” she then
had to say “You really have to be able to let go lose control, and destroy your ego. You’re
not you, you have to let go of yourself and be this whole other person, and really feel
the scene that you’re in. There is an art to it. You either have it or you don’t, I think.”
Fox and Kanye West recently attended a Broadway production of Slave Play,
which sparked romance speculations. During their outing in New York City, a source
told PEOPLE, "He was ecstatic to see her, and they planned to spend the rest of the evening together.
Julia stayed for the entire post-talk discussion. She was quite encouraging
and hung out with him, and she appeared to be very delighted to be with him."
The emerging actor also spoke to the site about filming a "intimidating" sequence with musician
The Weeknd:"I had never met him before, and the bathroom was really tiny. We were flirting with
each other — acting flirting, not real flirting — and it's such and intimate scene. I was kind of
like, 'I hope I'm not sweating. I hope you can't tell how nervous I am.' But after a few minutes,
he's so chill and so humble and funny and nice. Just a regular guy who just
happens to be super, super talented." But that’s her Hollywood life! What
about her life before fame? As a teen, she worked as a dominatrix.
The actress has been candid about her teen sex career, telling Rolling Stone
that working as a role-playing dominatrix helped her develop her acting talents.
"This was back when Craigslist still had an 'adult gigs' section. I was scrolling,
and in between ads for prostitutes, I clicked on one that said 'no nudity, no sex.' That appealed
to me," she told the magazine in July 2020. "You're given a few words on what the client's
interests are and then you have to build from there and improvise the rest," added
Fox. "So imagine having to do that multiple times a day in different outfits — a nun,
teacher, nurse, mom — according to the clients' desires. I went in an angsty
teenager and left a really self-assured woman." She struggled with drug addiction in her past
Fox suffered a near-fatal drug overdose at 17 years old. She told The Hollywood Reporter in
January 2020, "It's kind of a miracle that I'm okay because a lot of the people I grew
up with aren't doing so well. They're still on drugs or in jail. A lot of them died."
According to a New Yorker profile from July, Fox is now sober after her past
addiction struggles with heroin and pills. If you or someone you know is struggling
with addiction, please contact the SAMHSA substance abuse helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
Back to Julia, Julia Fox and her ex-husband Peter Artemiev reunited in New York City on
January 17 to celebrate their son Valentino's first birthday. While paparazzi photographed
them walking across Manhattan with their child, the couple posed for photos.
Artemiev wore black jeans and a green button-down shirt, while the actress and her child wore
matching black attire. On Instagram, the model also shared a birthday message for her kid,
writing, “My beautiful baby is 1 today!! Thank you so much for showing me what love is. Thank you for
humbling me and teaching me patience and hard work. Thank you for being my biggest blessing.”
Peter Artemeiv is a Brooklyn-based private pilot. Following his marriage to Julia Fox,
he became well-known. They married in 2018 and divorced two years later.
Except for news reports regarding his breakup from the Uncut Gems star,
little is known about his family, job, or educational background.
Artemiev was also accused of being absent throughout the Christmas holidays,
according to Fox. "Have you seen this deadbeat dad?" she asked in her Instagram storey after
posting a photo of her ex with devil horns. Fox's allegations were disputed by Artemiev, who
labelled them "completely untrue statements." When Fox removed their photos on Instagram in 2020,
rumours about their breakup began to circulate. In a May 2020 interview with GQ,
Fox stated that they were friendly but not together. She stated that he is still his friend,
and that no matter how much he wants it to be more, it will not happen.
On the latest episode of her podcast Forbidden Fruits, Julia apologized
for the things she said about peter “All I want to say is, I’m sorry,”
she said. “You’re not a deadbeat, I know that you’re not, and I know that it wasn’t that you
weren’t trying to see [our son] Valentino, it’s that you weren’t trying to see me.”
“Everyone had COVID. I had no help at all whatsoever, and my friend was out and saw
Peter out and Peter was saying something along the lines of, ‘That b—h won’t let me
see my son.’ And when that was relayed to me ... my blood boiled. I just snapped.”
Does this seem like a healthy environment for a child to grow up around?
Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.