Under the radar. Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have kept their romance relatively private since they were first linked in 2016, but their flame has still burned bright.The Joker star and his fiancée first crossed paths on the set of Spike Jonze’s 2012 flick Her.
Looking back on his initial interactions with Mara, who played his ex-wife in the Oscar-winning film, Phoenix admitted to Vanity Fair in October 2019 that he was convinced Mara “despised” him.
Eventually, he realized that the Carol star was interested in him but too shy to express it.“She’s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet,” Phoenix explained at the time. “We were just friends, email friends.
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