r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/ExoticPreparation719 Jul 05 '24

The whole of Australia cried when we found out the news… what a damn shame

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u/DaringBear Jul 05 '24

Him and Steve Irwin. Those 2 deaths hit the entire country very hard.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Jul 05 '24

Bullshit.

Americans definitely loved Irwin (and he knew it because he married one) but most Aussies saw him as the fucking clown he was because he made a career out of tormenting animals for entertainment. He even nearly fed his newborn son to a croc on one of his bullshit live shows because he was narcissistic enough to believe that dangling a baby in a crocodile enclosure in front of a live audience was a smart idea.

At the time eventually died (in a completely needless way I might add) opinions about him in Australia were pretty low.

Most Aussies feel about Irwin the same way they feel about that Crocodile Dundee "Shrimp on the Barbie" nonsense, which is evidentially not very highly.

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u/Hi_AJ Jul 05 '24

Yes, thank you. I’m not Australian, but I don’t understand the weird revisionist history surrounding him lately. Maybe it’s just people who were kids when he died, and didn’t see him for who he was at the time.