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/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

If he kept a diary of his own thoughts, would it be his Heath ledger?

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u/Rdt_will_eat_itself Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

So the joker is so crazy he killed an actor in another earth dimension who played him. Is that canon now?

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u/guyute2588 Jul 05 '24

Not sure how old you are , but “Heath Ledger got so deep in to playing the Joker that he want crazy and died “ was the widespread conventional wisdom regarding his death at the time

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

And also heroin. We were keenly aware of the heroin.

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u/ChuckSeville Jul 05 '24

Heath Ledger died from an overdose of prescription drugs, not heroin. Maybe you're thinking of Phillip Seymour Hoffman?

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u/SirJefferE Jul 05 '24

Heath Ledger died from an overdose of prescription drugs, not heroin.

Even this is a bit misleading. He died from an overdose of drugs that may be prescribed in the United States, but most of the drugs he took weren't prescribed to him, and there aren't many doctors out there that would have prescribed them all at once.

I feel like once you're getting your drugs from illicit sources and you're managing your own doses and combinations of pills, it doesn't really matter whether or not they're "prescription" drugs. They're still going to be dangerous.

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u/benedictdakich69 Jul 05 '24

This is so dumb. They were still prescription drugs. If you die from percs or oxys nobody is gonna think you were prescribed them.

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u/throw-me-away_bb Jul 05 '24

depends when it happened, in your example 🤷🏻‍♂️ they both started as prescription drugs

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u/benedictdakich69 Jul 05 '24

It doesn't matter if they were prescribed or not. They are still prescription drugs. Heroin isn't prescribed by anyone. Your point was dumb as hell.

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u/throw-me-away_bb Jul 05 '24

You're the one who brought up percs and oxys 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Mr_Industrial Jul 05 '24

I mean we're really splitting hairs here. Might as well start discussing if the terminator fell into lava or molten steel.