Hollywood’s star couple, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, are reportedly expecting their second child. The rumours came after Mara was photographed cradling what seemed to be a baby bump on the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival.
This would be Mara and Phoenix’s second children after their son, River. Russian director Victor Kossakovsky revealed that Mara gave birth to a boy in 2020. Phoenix and the filmmaker have collaborated on the documentary Gunda before. “He just got a baby, by the way. A beautiful son called River,” the filmmaker had stated at the time.
The baby boy is named after Joaquin’s late brother, actor River Phoenix.
After first meeting on the sets of the highly acclaimed 2013 movie Her, Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix announced their engagement in 2019.
In the meantime, on the professional front, Phoenix has high hopes about the release of Joker: Folie a Deux, in which he will appear alongside actress-singer Lady Gaga for the first time. Gaga is reportedly portraying Harley Quinn in the film.