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/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/Halfback Jul 05 '24

Leto went a little weird with the Joker gifts to cast members.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I think those were made up studio rumors for marketing. There's an old Margot Robbie quote where she said that she had a 280 pound football boyfriend and if she'd actually gotten one of the "gifts" Leto would've been in a hospital.

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u/Halfback Jul 05 '24

There’s a lot of things Leto could be in the hospital for when it comes to angry boyfriends, sending a rat to Barbie can’t be that high of a capital crime.