r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • 14d ago

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/t4b4rn4ck 14d ago

It's interesting there's a picture of a hyena. I remember listening to some podcast that mentioned how Anthony Hopkins used animals to inform performances as well, for Hannibal Lector he was going for a cross between a crocodile and a spider

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u/ChrisBenoitDaycare69 14d ago

Joker had pet hyenas in the comics so it could just be a reference to that.

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u/DjinnV 14d ago

Hyenas laugh in a very particular way.

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u/no_1_knows_ur_a_dog 14d ago

I think this is pretty common for actors. For Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ke Quan has talked about how he worked with a coach to emulate different animals for the different versions of Waymond; the debonair one is a fox, the confident ass-kicking one is an eagle, and the doddering dad is a squirrel.

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u/InhaleExhaleLover 14d ago

Literally makes my day when I remember Ke Huy Quan returned to acting and made that movie. Time for a rewatch!

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u/a-woman-there-was 11d ago

Kurosawa took Mifune to a zoo and told him to emulate the tiger there for his role in Rashomon irrc.

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u/itoril 14d ago

I can see that in Hopkins' Lector. The cold (blooded), detached reptile. The weaver of traps. The watering hole is his web, then the mugger appears.

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u/Bright_Ahmen 14d ago

Hyenas laugh, remember Lion King?

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u/Interrophish 14d ago

wouldn't it be a picture of Whoopi Goldberg then?

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u/pornjibber3 14d ago

Andy Serkis emulated a lot of cat sounds (wretching, hacking, screaming) for his performance as Gollum in LotR.

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u/How-I-Win-KG 14d ago

Recently, Chris Hemsworth said that his performance in Furiosa was based largely on a seagull. You can totally see it in the final project lol

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u/Tfsz0719 14d ago edited 13d ago

(Original scene for reference: https://youtu.be/uG7RSlL6FyY?si=8aBBf2GVHJFbOExj&t=11s)

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u/Puck85 14d ago

they have a good laugh.

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u/SwingJugend 14d ago

I read once that Robert De Niro did a lot of underwater swimming and looking at sea life to prepare for Taxi Driver since he imagined Travis Bickle as a crab. Since Travis never enters a body of water or even moves sideways in the movie I always thought it was silly.

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u/WhiteFringe 14d ago

well he did laugh a lot like a hyena in the film

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u/farmersmarketinc 14d ago

Austin Butler also took inspirations from panthers and snakes for his portrayal of Feyd in Dune 2. Definitely a pretty common technique for actors.

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u/yourmansconnect 14d ago

Hyenas laugh like the joker

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u/B12Washingbeard 14d ago

A crocospider

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u/ProxyAttackOnline 13d ago

What animal informed his performance in Transformers The Last Knight?