Rapper-Actor’s Beef is a Big Joaq

Fake rapper Joaquin Phoenix staged one hell of a fake fight Wednesday night at Miami night club LIV. After making fans (many of whom showed up at 10 p.m.) wait until 2 a.m., the actor, whom Natalie Portman indirectly described as looking like the proprietor of a Hasidic meth lab, got heckled by someone he had never ever met before in his entire life and definitely wasn’t a fellow actor friend planted in the crowd to create the scene of a faux dustup. After one of the retorts, Phoenix shot back, “We’ve got a bitch in the audience!” and “I’ve got a $1 million in the bank, what have you got, bitch?”

Then he fairly delicately stepped off the stage and wrestled the bitch to the floor before security guards broke up the scrap. No one reported seeing any actual punches thrown.
 
And talk about good luck! Phoenix’s brother-in-law and documentarian, Casey Affleck, happened to be in the crowd at LIV filming the whole scene.