Nelsta Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 The Actor Heath Ledger who plays the Joker in the upcomming Batman film has been found dead in a Hotel room in America.They say it is drug related. RIP Heath...you was in some good films and it's a real shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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adopted scouser Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Drugs - idiot. Have to change me sig now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Oh my god! That is shocking news! I love 10 things I hate about you and a knights tale. Two fantastic Sunday afternoon chill out films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovermatt Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 My God! One of the best actors around. His turn in Brokeback Mountain was remarkable and his portrayal of the Joker has been gaining a lot of hype. Clearly it's no more tragic than any other death under similar circumstances, but it's always shocking when people with endless talent and wealth succumb to exactly the same frailties as the ordinary populace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovermatt Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4E Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Drugs - idiot. You're not wrong. Heaven knows what drives these people with the World at their feet to make such terrible lifestyle decisions. Edit: Possibly inappropriate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flopsy Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 BBC are hinting at suicide by overdose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modes98 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 What a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelsta Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 BBC are hinting at suicide by overdose. Yeah some Holywood reporter was just on the radio sayin Heath's misses had just split with him a few month earlier and he had taken it really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Spoke to him once over a beer in Sydney. Seemed so down to Earth, great shame. Bigger shame is he is leaving a 2 year old girl fatherless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Southampton Rover Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocker Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Recent NY Times interview He tends to do that. He is here in London filming the latest episode of the “Batman” franchise, “The Dark Knight.” (Mr. Bale, as it happens, plays Batman; Mr. Ledger plays the Joker.) It is a physically and mentally draining role — his Joker is a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy” he said cheerfully — and, as often happens when he throws himself into a part, he is not sleeping much. “Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,” he said. “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” One night he took an Ambien, which failed to work. He took a second one and fell into a stupor, only to wake up an hour later, his mind still racing. Even as he spoke, Mr. Ledger was hard-pressed to keep still. He got up and poured more coffee. He stepped outside into the courtyard and smoked a cigarette. He shook his hair out from under its hood, put a rubber band around it, took out the rubber band, put on a hat, took off the hat, put the hood back up. He went outside and had another cigarette. Polite and charming, he nonetheless gave off the sense that the last thing he wanted to do was delve deep into himself for public consumption. “It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself,” is how he put it, a little apologetically. Among other things, he began working with Gerry Grennell, his dialect coach, who has seen him through a dizzying spectrum of dialects and intonations. (“It’s rare that there’s a role that requires an Australian accent,” Mr. Ledger said.) Among his next projects are a film directed by Terry Gilliam, and another by Terrence Malick. Mr. Ledger is learning to play the piano and to sing. He also directs music videos, has a small independent record label called Masses Music in Los Angeles and is planning to direct a film at the end of next year. One of the things that struck him most about the Dylan who emerges in “I’m Not There,” he said, was Dylan’s continual effort to resist easy categorization and his willingness to “recreate himself and not conform to people’s ambitions to put him in a box.” That is how Mr. Ledger feels too, and he likes to keep an element of surprise, for the world at large and for himself. “Some people find their shtick,” he said. “I’ve never figured out who ‘Heath Ledger’ is on film: ‘This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.’” He continued: “People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. That’s fine. But there are many stories inside of me and a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenodrog Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Speaking of suicides....... this is odd... http://news.aol.co.uk/seventh-suicide-in-s...123031009990002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocker Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Speaking of suicides....... this is odd... http://news.aol.co.uk/seventh-suicide-in-s...123031009990002 Wonder if someone had played the latest Westlife cover album to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roar of the Rover Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 An Great talent. RIP Mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Head Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I knew his brother Purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roversyoyo Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I knew his brother Purchase. Very droll. If you'd have said General that would have been genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 A sad story indeed. Yet another talented individual dies through drugs. TBH i`d never heard of the guy, but the general vibe is that he was a talented actor. It`s a shame & a waste On the flip side of the coin, it`s a pity Winehouse & Doherty are still hanging on in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelsta Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 Apparentley the Westborough Baptist Church in America are planning on Picketing Heath Ledgers Funeral. I'm sorry but that is just wrong.Only in america could a church organise a pickett for a funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Well, it is only one family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenodrog Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Apparentley the Westborough Baptist Church in America are planning on Picketing Heath Ledgers Funeral. I'm sorry but that is just wrong.Only in america could a church organise a pickett for a funeral. I think of nutters in one or two world religions that would have claimed that his death was the wrath of God for his script in Brokeback Mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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