Joaquin Phoenix has sparked marriage rumors with his fiancé Rooney Mara as he slipped up and called her his “wife” during a recent podcast apperance.

Fans seem to believe Joaquin could’ve exchanged some secret wedding vows as he was seen lovingly referring to Rooney as his “wife” on the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. During the lively discussion, the 49-year-old actor touched on a number of fascinating subjects from his latest film Joker: Folie à Deux alongside Lady Gaga, to growing up in a cult.

And as he dished on a wide range of topics, listeners picked up on the subtle snafu as he was discussing the process of crafting his Oscars speech. In 2020, Joaquin took home the Academy Award for Best Actor following his performance in the Joker. And as he was asked about his passionate winner’s speech, Joaquin said he was inspired after he “was talking with my mom and my wife.”

Later in the same interview he brought up Rooney by name, confirming that she was the “wife” he was referring to. Despite the hint that vows could’ve been exchanged, Joaquin remained tight-lipped about the status of his long-term relationship.

Joaquin accidentally called Rooney his ‘wife’ during a recent interview ( Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Joaquin and the Nightmare Alley star have been going strong for the past eight years. The pair first met back in 2012 on set of the sci-fi drama Her, but the actor never made a move because he thought that Rooney “despised” him.

He later discovered that she was just shy and was actually secretly harboring feelings for him too. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Joaquin sweetly confessed: “She’s the only girl I ever looked up on the internet. We were just friends, email friends. I’d never done that. Never looked up a girl online.”

The Hollywood couple are engaged and expecting their second child together ( Image: WireImage)

The pair later reunited years later in 2016 as they co-starred on the historical drama, Mary Magdalene, and began dating soon after. The Hollywood power couple later their red carpet debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Later that same year, they accidentally revealed that they were also living together.

The pair privately got engaged in 2019 and later welcomed their first child River together in 2020. The twosome announced that Rooney was pregnant back in February and they are expecting baby number two together.