Phoenix denies 'breakdown'

Joaquin Phoenix has denied tabloid reports that he had a breakdown while filming a scene related to Johnny Cash’s brother’s death in Walk The Line, the upcoming biopic of the late country star.

Phoenix, 30, banged his head on a bedpost during a scene in which Cash is going through drug withdrawal in an attempt to get into his character’s emotional state, but he was acting, not flipping out, he told Newsweek magazine.