Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara are married!
It only took like ten years.
But why did they take so long to tie the knot?
Keep watching till the end; the answer might surprise you!
Joaquin Phoenix met the love of his life in 2013.
It was on the set of the movie, ‘Her.’
Rooney Mara was cast as his ex-wife.
But the romance didn’t start right away.
Why?
Joaquin thought that Rooney didn’t like him at all!
It turns out she was just shy.
“She's the only girl I ever looked up on the internet," Phoenix said, adding, "We were
just friends, e-mail friends.
I'd never done that.
Never looked up a girl online."
How sweet is that?
Although they’d started exchanging e-mails, the lovebirds-to-be were still stuck in the
friend zone.
They shared the screen again three years later when they co-starred in ‘Mary Magdalene.’
We think it was on this set that the romance flame grew bright!
By 2017, when the film premiered in London, it was official.
Phoenix and Mara made their first public appearance as a couple at the closing ceremonies for
the Cannes Film Festival.
The lovebirds held hands and shared some intimate moments.
A source shared at the time that they seemed like a totally natural and easy couple.
Aww!
From the start of their romance, Joaquin and Rooney always kept a low profile.
It was a rare and oh-so-special moment when they shared a little about the relationship.
Like in 2017 when Joaquin confessed that he and Rooney had started living together!
According to the actor, one part of their couple routine was binge-watching Netflix’s
true-crime documentary, ‘The Staircase.’
It’s one of Mara’s favorite shows, completely opposite to Joaquin’s favorite; ‘Moana.’
By 2019, the couple had cuffed each other up.
They got privately engaged!
We found out when Mara was photographed wearing a large diamond ring on her left hand.
And so, the rumors started, but nothing was really confirmed.
While keeping their engagement under wraps, Joaquin and Rooney kept showing us how perfect
they are together.
How?
What says ‘love’ better than protesting together?
They’re both passionate activists.
In 2018, they walked the talk on National Animal Rights Day.
They even held dead animals during the demonstration!
When Phoenix won the inaugural TIFF Tribute Actor Award at the Toronto International Film
Festival, he took the opportunity to shout out two very special people.
Firstly, his late brother River Phoenix.
Then, for the first time ever, he publicly declared his love for Mara.
“One last thing — somewhere here, I don't know where, is a filthy dragon, and I want
They welcomed a son named River, after Phoenix’s brother.
It wasn’t the couple who let the news slip.
Rather, it was Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky, who worked with Phoenix on the documentary
‘Gunda.’
“He just got a baby, by the way.
A beautiful son called River,” Kossakovsy said.
And even with baby River in the house, Joaquin and Rooney still found time to share the screen
again!
In October 2022, the news broke that the duo would star in the thriller, ‘The Island.’
It must have been quite an adjustment, juggling work with their baby boy.
Although, when Rooney opened up about parenthood, she let the world know she’s one of the
luckiest girls in the world!
Mara explained that Phoenix allowed her to stay at home with their son.
She also said that she never expected to raise children with another actor.
“It doesn't feel like a two-actor house because I didn't work for the first three
and a half years we were together.
Basically, since we've been together, I only worked one or two times, and one was really
small and short.
It feels like a creative household, we're constantly talking about creative things,”
Mara shared.
And as of 2023, our favorite super-private couple finally tied the knot!
Back in 2018, their idea of marriage was that it was too mainstream.
That’s why a wedding never happened sooner.
Besides, they were so busy trying to change the world!
Let’s flashback to when the couple teamed up and advocated for adopting, not eating,
turkeys during Thanksgiving.
But now, they’ve grown their family and are settling into parenthood together.
And you’ll never guess how they shared the news!
It wasn’t so much an announcement as it was Joaquin making a sneaky little comment.
In an interview in March, he referred to Rooney as his ‘wife.’
Discussing his role in the film, ‘C’mon C’mon,’ Phoenix said, “Director Mike
Mills invited me to his house, and we started discussing why he wanted to make this film
with me, and eventually I listened to my wife, who is always right, and I agreed.”
BRB, just going to freak out a little bit.
Maybe River changed his mom and dad’s minds about marriage?
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