💘💘

I’m a millennial who had a slight obsession with him in the mid 2000s when I was in middle school. I was born the year he died but adored him

Banana Fish probably helps. One of the main characters, Ash Lynx (Aslan) was physically based off him, and it's massively popular.

You call people gen z , f*ck yourself 🤣🤣🤣

Gen Z, here in 2023, adore River. My heart breaks that he's not still around, but I also believe that the state of the world would be a very sad place for him.

:((

Keanu.. rude??

Keanu was rude? How so?

Never thought I'd see "Keanu" and "rude" in one sentence

I'm jealous of you for being able to meet him!! 😭

*was

@@brudi368 wdym..

@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. he ded

@@akritiichalise6261 oh yeah ofc 😅

Much like his little brother Joaquin.

He was/is the best! So glad you now know him. He was a beautiful genuine truthful soul. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

Welcome to the club❤

John Frusciante gave him the heroin that killed him and told him it was cocaine.

@@lieutenantlascivious1992 many say the reason behind it was jealousy. He shouldn't have been around those guys. When he was younger he was talking about how dangerous those places and groups were and how he avoided them, didn't need to have anything to do with them, and enjoyed the simple life in nature, with his family and friends..but the love of music brought him to that crowd..he was too pure for that ugly world...😢💔

@@LunaLu-00 agreed...he was so deep and knew himself and cared so much about what he put into his body. I'm sure he had some demons possibly from his childhood or whatever it was that led him to the heavy drugs. 😔

Stand by me is how I discovered him, I have to check out My Own Private Idaho

@@ellislegato2238 I'd had already watched Stand by Me but I didn't realise at the time River Phoenix was in it. I realised pretty quickly afterwards that it was the same person. I ended up watching quite a few of his movies after like The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford. I realised then he had such depth as an actor from playing light hearted roles to playing really emotionally charged roles he was a truly gifted person.

Oh wait so do you look like River Phoenix?

@@The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. I used to look like him when I was a lot younger but I'm a lot older now so have changed over the years. I even used to wear this red jacket that my girlfriend got me at the time that was practically identical to the one he wore In My Own Private Idaho. It was strange though having somebody go out with you because you looked like someone lol.

@@electricdreams1616 oh woww!! Man now I wanna see a picture of how you used to look like lmao 🤣

same here 🤚

same:((

Same 🥲

same 💓

same!!

Is it true Keanu and River were besties back then?

@@erikaheck8261 I don't know about being best friends (even though many fans like to call it that), but they were definitely good friends after they met for My own private Idaho. Keanu used to talk about him, but now he doesn't do that anymore. At least not to my knowledge.

Absolutely. We needed him.

I found that kinda weird, I thought he was adopted because Joaquin and the rest all look like their dad.

River took after his mum. If you google a picture of her, you see it straight away - same nose, same face shape, same eyes, same colouring. Both beautiful.

Some people even believe Leonardo DiCaprio probably wouldn’t be the big celebrity that he is today if River Phoenix hadn’t died

Being aware of your own beauty doesn't make necessarily someone a bad person.

James Cameron based the Jack Dawson character on River Phoenix originally , the script for titanic was in the works since early 90s 1991 1992 River Phoenix was supposed to play Jack Dawson James Cameron created thr character on River Phoenix. Basketball Diaries Marvin's Room Total Eclipse were all slated to go to River Phoenix. then River was tragically purposley murdered poisoned with the Drink spiked with Cocain and Heroin on purpose, nobody knows the identity of the person who gave River that Drink, this was a dark operation by the illuminati inside the entrainment industry. The powers that be chose Leonardo Dicaprio Over River Phoenix

Same since age 10 . I love the Name River because of him . 🩷

@@Outlawgurl2419 Me too, one of my little 1st graders is named River, a girl. I would name my child River!!

I mean he did the drugs that killed him that night so it wasn’t really his parents.

@@hangry265 he didn't know. He was given a drink that was laced with speedball. River wanted to go home.

I'm so glad that you like it!!

StOP.

Your so real for that 😂

💞

Leonardo was a huge fan of him.

Kinda crazy that Leo was actually at the Viper Room the night River died, huh? 🤔

@@brandixx7453 DiCaprio saw him at other party not on viper and then he wanted to talk to him but was starstrucked and froze and then a bunch of people got in the way and he didn't see him anymore

I was young when he died and remember that Leonardo di Caprio was often compared to him. Actually they had River in mind for Jack Dawson but then he died and Leo got the part.

@@precisoterfe5410 even creepier is that he met him on the last night he lived.

They are very different..

@@LunaLu-00 seems like it. He seemed like the nicer more down to earth brother. I just never could get in to Jauquin.

@@Officiallyrosko same here!

@@Officiallyrosko To be fair, Joaquin was present when River died and actually made the 9-1-1 call that was leaked to the media and replayed ad nauseam. Also, he was hounded so much by the press in the wake of River's death that the family had to move out of the country for about a year, until things quieted down. Joaquin was only 19 at the time. Thus, all of that probably made him wary of reporters and come off standoffish in interviews once he resumed his acting career as a young man. (He had been a child actor but quit when he was 15; he returned to acting at age 21).

@@musicaltheatergeek79 I understand and I don’t mean he’s a bad actor or person, I just mean they’re opposite and seen the world differently even before his passing.

i feel the same

Oh my god.....