We have talked a lot lately about Joaquin Phoenix looking scruffy and grungy.�� And we’ve wondered why, of course.� Well, Joaquin has finally revealed his reasons, and they’re good ones – at least in his mind.

�People have called me a sex symbol in the past, but it’s very much an effort.� People know me as this kind of thing and in some ways I don’t know that this is my look.

It’s been important for me to just do something that’s extreme – that really separates me from that public Joaquin Phoenix persona, whatever the f*** that is.

Or maybe I’m just lazy.�

(Well, at least he admits it’s a possibility.)

This is extreme all right.� Eventually maybe he’ll get tired of looking like a mountain man and find a happy medium.

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