R.I.P. Heath

[przed]

When I opened my email and found a message with the header "Heath Ledger found dead in New York" lurking in my Inbox, I hoped it was all a sick joke. But it's not and I feel far sadder than I've done with many celebrity deaths. Ledger was one of the very few twenty-something actors I cared about, and I was looking forward to him having a long and interesting career. Alas that it's not to be.

Brokeback Mountain aside, the Ledger movies I adore most are A Knight's Tale, with it's crazy anachronisms and splendid swashbuckling, and The Four Feathers, which takes a dated tale of English colonialism and makes of it something much more interesting.

As William Thatcher in A Knight's Tale


As Harry Faversham in The Four Feathers

Comments

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

I was shocked when I heard it too.

Such a waste. I hope his final performance as the JOKER in the next Batman movie will be over the top. From what I have seen in the trailers it looks good.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm still sort of in shock about it. He's always been my goto example of the one young actor I like and care about.

The Joker performance scared me when I saw the trailer recently, but then I'm no fan of Batman Begins.