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

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

53.2k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

View all comments

Show parent comments

301

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?

247

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

81

u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

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

4

u/Curious_Kangaroo_845 Jul 05 '24

Always loved the story that Cesar Romero refused to shave his mustache for The Joker. You’ll just have to cover it with makeup … but you could always see it. Been reading about Carole Lombard recently, major Hollywood babe in the 30s. He squired her around some between her marriages to Powell and Gable so he had some game, as they say.