Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix have welcomed their first child.Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky announced the couple’s happy news during a Q&A at the 2020 Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, September 27, following a screening of the documentary Gunda, which Phoenix executive produced.The director explained why the Oscar winner was not present, saying, “He just got a baby, by the way, his name was … a beautiful son called River, so he cannot promote it now.”The couple have named their baby boy after Phoenix’s late older brother, actor River Phoenix, who died in 1993 at the age of 23 of a drug overdose.Us Weekly confirmed in May that the couple were expecting baby No.
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