River’s Prediction
For a brief period of time in his early career, Joaquin went by the name Leaf. By the time he was 15, the Brother Bear actor returned to his given name, at the request of his brother. “He suggested I change my name [back to Joaquin] and then, I don’t know, six months later, whatever it was, we were in Florida, we were in the kitchen, and he said, ‘You’re going to be an actor and you’re going to be more well-known than I am.’ Me and my mom looked at each other like, ‘What the f–k is he talking about?'” Joaquin said in an October 2019 interview with Vanity Fair. “I don’t know why he said that or what he knew of me at the time. I hadn’t been acting at all. But he also said it with a certain weight, with a knowing that seemed so absurd to me at the time, but of course now, in hindsight, you’re like, ‘How the f–k did he know?'”
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