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Joaquin Cashes In at Folsom
Walk the Line wrapped months ago, but Joaquin Phoenix is still channeling Johnny Cash.
The Golden Globe-nominated actor hosted a screening of the film for 50-some inmates at California's Folsom State Prison Tuesday, capped by a live performance of some of the Man in Black's greatest hits.
"I know you guys would probably rather see Reese [Witherspoon]," Phoenix told the crowd. The actress, who played June Carter Cash in the film, didn't attend the event.
Phoenix, meanwhile, played several acoustic songs in the prison's Greystone Chapel, including "Folsom Prison Blues," accompanied by costar and musician Shooter Jennings, who played his father, Waylon Jennings, in the film.
Phoenix, who was clad in black and strummed a black guitar, apologized to the audience for being "rusty" and explained he hadn't picked up a guitar since filming ended.
"I don't know if you've noticed, but I've messed up like 40 times," he said. "I'm all over the place."
Phoenix also took some questions from the men, and one asked if the actor had learned to play the instrument for the role.
"John wasn't [Jimi] Hendrix," Phoenix said. "It was real simple...we rehearsed a lot."
Prior to the screening and brief performance, Phoenix toured the prison and, after a request from the warden, pledged a donation to fix the facility's ailing chapel.
"We invited 20th Century Fox to screen Walk the Line at Folsom because the lesson of Johnny Cash is that it's never too late for a man to turn his life around, and that's a story these men need to hear," said Joe Avila, director of the prison fellowship.
The event took place nearly four decades after Cash's infamous concert at the penitentiary, a performance that turned around his career and was captured in the hugely successful and influential album Johnny Cash at Folsom State Prison.
On Jan. 13, 1968, Cash played before several hundred inmates after receiving thousands of letters from the men claiming his music helped inspire their rehabilitation. The concert was such a pivotal moment in the singer's life that the event bookends the film.
Walk the Line is up for three Golden Globes on Jan. 16: Best Actor for Phoenix, Best Actress for Witherspoon and Best Musical or Comedy.
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