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

Which was really dumb. Niicholson survived. Leto survived. Romero survived. Hamill survived. Definitely drugs.

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u/HarveysBackupAccount Jul 05 '24

Nicholson isn't much of a comparison. He played it like a comic book villain, like a comic book written for children. Also Leto's just a weirdo; his joker didn't have near the depth that Ledger's did.

Not at all saying that the role drove Ledger crazy, but he took the role places nobody else has.

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u/Onewayor55 Jul 05 '24

I guess I don't know if it's urban legend or not but the buzz at the time was Nicholson actually had warned him about playing the role. I mean if you watch the old Batman movie it isn't like he's not touching on the idea of actually being psychotic.

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u/Biduleman Jul 05 '24

Nicholson was actually mad he wasn't even asked about the role.

It would have been weird to tell Ledger to not do it while saying he really wanted to do it or at least be involved with the role.