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In a 2011 interview with NPR, Wil Wheaton attributed the film’s success to the director’s casting choices: “Rob Reiner found four young boys who basically were the characters we played. I was awkward and nerdy and shy and uncomfortable in my own skin and really, really sensitive, and River was cool and really smart and passionate and even at that age kind of like a father figure to some of us, Jerry was one of the funniest people I had ever seen in my life, either before or since, and Corey was unbelievably angry and in an incredible amount of pain and had an absolutely terrible relationship with his parents.”

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My Own Private Idaho (dir. Gus Van Sant, 1991) - Moonlight (dir.Barry Jenkins, 2016)

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Almost 30 years ago...wow ❤️😭💕

River arriving at the 46th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 28th, 1989

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Wil Wheaton on filming the “milk money” scene with River in Stand by Me 

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“Idaho is the story of a rich boy who falls of the hill and a kid on the street. I saw a bit of the hill in Keanu’s personality and a bit of the street in River’s. They played out those extensions of themselves.” -  Gus Van Sant

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Lili Taylor with the boys ♥️

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“River’s sense of loss, his loneliness, his sweetness, his isolation… I mean, youth can always relate to those things.” - Mickey Cottrell

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Riv and Martha mirroring each other 

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Happy Birthday, River ❤️❤️ you are soo loved and soo missed.

oxo

River’s 48th • August 23rd 1970 

“You see his eyes, you can see right into his soul.”

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Rare polaroid of River and an extra on the set of My Own Private Idaho 

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Phoenix boys & Gus Van Sant

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Things that keep me up at night: 

Thinking about how River went to the premiere of the first Batman film in 1989 - the only film premiere other than his own he ever attended because Batman was one of the only things the Phoenix kids grew up watching. And how 30 years later in 2019 Joaquin is going to have his own Joker movie

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Yesterday a mural was created for River by street artists, LeFou and Otep, outside The Roxy on the sunset strip in LA

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Forever, IG : itsPeteski