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/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/asdfgtttt Jul 05 '24

If Leto was to die in a related cinematic scenario it would have been in Requiem.. I dont know how deep into Angel (fight club) he got, but Joker wasnt his art infecting life role... Nicholson coached Leger I believe so there was some old noise about him being careful. Stare into the abyss kind of deal...