speculated that Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix couple would give birth to a baby in quarantine. Now, it has been confirmed by The Guardian that Phoenix and Mara did have a baby boy this month.
Director Victor Kossakovsky was the one who actually let the news slip. Phoenix was an executive producer on a documentary called Gunda, which screened at the 2020 Zurich film festival.
Kossakovsky revealed that Phoenix was not present at the screening because he was tending to his newborn son. The director also revealed that the couple named him River, after Joaquin's late older brother, actor River Phoenix, who died at the age of 23 from a drug overdose in 1993.
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