NEWS: Phoenix Documentary Confirmed As A Hoax

Director Casey Afleck has come clean over his new film 'I'm Still Here', a documentary detailing Joaquin Phoenix's retirement from acting to become a rapper.

According to the New York Times, Afleck confirmed that almost every bit of the film was a performance and not at all real.

“It’s a terrific performance, it’s the performance of his career,” Mr. Affleck said talking about Phoenix's two-year portrayal of himself, on screen and off, as a bearded, drug-addled aspiring rap star.

Not even the opening shots confessed Afleck, which shows Mr. Phoenix and his siblings swimming in a water hole in Panama. That, Mr. Affleck said, was actually shot in Hawaii with actors, then run back and forth on top of an old videocassette recording of “Paris, Texas” to degrade the images.

Aflect also confirmed that Phoenix's agent, Patrick Whitesell at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, was in on the joke.

Phoenix will again appear on The Letterman Show next week this time as his normal self.

Watch the trailer and read our original announcement of 'I'm Still Here' here.