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01-23-2008, 06:23 AM
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23096273-5012980,00.html
Lisa Yallamas
January 22, 2008 11:00pm
IN his last interview, Heath Ledger says The Joker was the most fun character he'd ever play.
"It was hard stamina-wise because high levels of energy were required and needed every day," Ledger admits in the video. And while the world waits for the New York Coroner and police to determine what happened, blogster-fans try to solve the mystery from what they glean online.
However, the UK's reports Ledger had a heroin addiction which deepened during the filming of Batman when he went into rehab.
' "Heath's addiction was really getting in the way of his ability to act," ' The Daily Mail reports.
And bloggers like Scottykazz on Superman homepage says "I hope his reportedly insane work as the Joker didn't put him over the edge."
A blogger named Ojacko points to The Internet Media Database's Batman Returns entry: “Ledger found the role extremely difficult, and suffered insomnia as a result.”
Ledger told The New York Times last year that Heath Ledger stressed a little too much over the role.
The interview was done in London during the filming of Batman.
'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," Heath Ledger told The Times.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/dark_knight_18.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/dark_knight_onesheet.jpg
This Batman movie is a continuation of "Batman Begins" and is a much more sinister, dark, and I would submit more accurate take on the original "Batman" comic books. Batman and robin were not the campy, silly characters that the 1960's TV series produced. Heath Ledger's Joker is beyond maniacal, and is much much different than Jack Nicholson's Joker was in Tim Burton's "Batman" that starred Michael Keaton.
Ledger's death will add a lot of emphasis to the release of "The Dark Knight" later this year...
Lisa Yallamas
January 22, 2008 11:00pm
IN his last interview, Heath Ledger says The Joker was the most fun character he'd ever play.
"It was hard stamina-wise because high levels of energy were required and needed every day," Ledger admits in the video. And while the world waits for the New York Coroner and police to determine what happened, blogster-fans try to solve the mystery from what they glean online.
However, the UK's reports Ledger had a heroin addiction which deepened during the filming of Batman when he went into rehab.
' "Heath's addiction was really getting in the way of his ability to act," ' The Daily Mail reports.
And bloggers like Scottykazz on Superman homepage says "I hope his reportedly insane work as the Joker didn't put him over the edge."
A blogger named Ojacko points to The Internet Media Database's Batman Returns entry: “Ledger found the role extremely difficult, and suffered insomnia as a result.”
Ledger told The New York Times last year that Heath Ledger stressed a little too much over the role.
The interview was done in London during the filming of Batman.
'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," Heath Ledger told The Times.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/dark_knight_18.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/dark_knight_onesheet.jpg
This Batman movie is a continuation of "Batman Begins" and is a much more sinister, dark, and I would submit more accurate take on the original "Batman" comic books. Batman and robin were not the campy, silly characters that the 1960's TV series produced. Heath Ledger's Joker is beyond maniacal, and is much much different than Jack Nicholson's Joker was in Tim Burton's "Batman" that starred Michael Keaton.
Ledger's death will add a lot of emphasis to the release of "The Dark Knight" later this year...