Vanity Fair UK - 11.2019

FAME & PHOENIX

By JOE HAGAN

Photographs by

ETHAN

JAMES GREEN

Styled by

TOM

GUINNESS

His brother River’s death

is one of his Rosebuds,

Joaquin says, “but it’s

not a Rosebud in the way

that people think.”

He says his gift for

dark roles like the Joker

is “prenatal,” and he can

leave them behind

on set. “I fucking love

my life,” he says.

NOVEMBER 2019