Joaquin Phoenix Collapsed During Filming of New Movie, Director Reveals: ‘I Knew It Was Bad’

Director Ari Aster revealed during a Q&A session in 🗽New York that actor Joaquin Phoenix fainted during the filming of “Beau Is Afraid.”

The revelation came after an April Fool’s prank Saturday in which “Beau Is Afraid” was shown instead of the billed director’s cut of the 2019 horror film “Midsommar,” Deadline reported.

Actress Emma Stone moderated the session and remarked, “Thank you all for coming out tonight. I know you didn’t know you were coming to this,” to which the crowd laughed.

During the session, Deadline reported, Aster recalled the moment Phoenix collapsed: “There was a scene that was very intense for Patti , and it was a shot that was on Patti, it was not on him and all of a sudden he fell out of frame.”

The director admitted he was “really pissed because it was a really good take.”

“It felt confusing, so I went around the corner, and he was collapsed,” Aster continued.

He added, “I knew it was bad because he was letting people touch him, and people were tending to him, and he was allowing it.

“The point is that he fainted in somebody else’s take. He wasn’t on camera, and he was helping them. He was in it for them to the point where he collapsed. It’s very poetic that he collapsed in somebody else’s shot.”