Phoenix circa 2005: Photo by Tony Shek
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, better known for his bizarre appearance on Letterman and busting out rap rhymes with hobo hair and hipster shades, emotionally looks into the camera in the latest Peta promotional video and proclaims:“Did you know that mother snakes keep their eggs warm by wrapping their bodies around them and then shivering to generate heat?”
Although he has since cleaned up his look–and his act, initially, I could not take Phoenix seriously. My head overflowed with images of grizzly bear bearded Phoenix wavin’ his hands in the air like he just don’t care until the camera pans off of luxury snakeskin shoes and handbags and onto the twitching, severed head of a snake.
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