Celebrity Response
JP
Joaquin Phoenix
Actor · 2025 · Aired July 18, 2025
Question set: Current (2022+)
1
What's the best sandwich?
Tahini, lettuce, tomato with red onion on sourdough
2
What was your first concert?
Steel Pulse
A reggae band
3
What is the scariest animal?
Maybe snakes
Didn't want to offend snakes in the viewership
4
Apples or oranges?
Both
Unprecedented — judges allowed half of each
5
Have you ever asked someone for their autograph?
Yes — Erik Estrada and John Travolta (via his mom at NBC)
His mom was a secretary to a casting director at NBC
6
What do you think happens when we die?
Fully deteriorate and that's amazing
Looking forward to getting old
7
What's your favorite action movie?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Couldn't come up with one until Stephen suggested Indiana Jones; Joaquin then agreed: "Yeah, I do recall enjoying it."
8
Window or aisle?
Window alone, aisle with his son
9
What's your favorite smell?
His kids
10
What's your least favorite smell?
Some things his kids do
11
What is your earliest memory?
Iguanas by a swimming pool in Venezuela — his dad holding him
Was nearly three — remembers being frightened of the iguanas
12
Cats or dogs?
Dogs
13
You only get one song to listen to for the rest of your life — what is it?
"Point of No Return" — Kansas
Also suggested Dust in the Wind
14
What number am I thinking of?
23
15
Describe the rest of your life in five words.
"No way I can't"
Broke Owen Wilson's record for longest questionnaire