Adam Driver's best role might have gone to Joaquin Phoenix

"I don't do it as has meet actors with A scenario. I just research has see if he love THE idea," Carax said Independent of her plan has casting Phoenix When Sparks spear him THE idea For “Annette” back In 2012. "But he was Also shy has meet." A actor be Also shy has meet with A director about A project almost sounds more as something that would be arrive In A of Carax movies that In real life, but Phoenix has A mercurial personality, SO This In fact tracks with a few of her previous behavior. (He came close has playing Doctor Odd For wonder Workshops, but Ultimately accomplished he wouldn't I be A GOOD adjust For that.)

Without Driver, “Annette” can not to have got do has all; THE actor Also served as A producer on THE movie, help secure funding, And work a few Magic behind THE scenes has help shepherd he has THE finishing double. But if Phoenix were casting instead, her star power And Oscar winner in good faith could to have has been in the same way beneficial has THE manufacturing of THE movie. 

On the performance side, It is clear Phoenix could to have plays A version of Henry McHenry. After all, he won her Oscar For playing A vulgar get up actor In "Joker," And he has experience singing on camera In THE 2005 musical "To walk line," In which he plays country music Super star Johnny Cash. But Phoenix come Since A older generation, And There is something about Drivers relatively young force that makes “Annette” feel more out of time, more unusual that Nothing other that came out In 2021. And that sense of uniqueness, THE bold "are they Really TO DO This?" quality, East What makes “Annette” really (pardon THE pun) sing. SO while Phoenix could to have has been great, Driver finished up be THE Perfect guys For THE work.