Thanks for the kind thoughts! Sorry, it is taking me a long time to transcribe, as it is quite a long article and I cannot find the text on the web.
I am posting pretty much only the pieces relating to Heath; there are lots more about Jarhead and (brother-in-law) Peter Sarsgaard, as well as other things. There will be at least two more posts from the interview after this one, maybe three; in the meanwhile, I do hope others get copies of GQ, the photos are really special, some of them full page or full two-page spreads. Nice!
From Jake Is Huge by Chris Heath, GQ Magazine, May 2010, page 110:
Between courses at the Ravagh Persian Grill in Manhattan....(continues)
Did Heath never do anything that annoyed you?
"No, I already admired Heath. I always was kind of enamored by him, you know. I mean, yeah, sometimes it was hard to sit with him. He moved..... He was a mover.
People have since suggested that he was really, really troubled by having to do all that promotion and campaigning. Was that your sense?
"Yeah. He was very sensitive. He didn't always really have a sense of performance in his everyday life. He was who he was. I think actors very often, they know how to present something, and that's part of their job.6 I think he was who he was. I think he was just really sensitive. We often used to do a lot of things together, because people were very interested in him and I think we felt safe together."
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For example, he says that when he and Ledger had to introduce Ang Lee at the Directors Guild awards. Ledger refused point-blank to say anything jokey about Lee, as might have been expected at such an event. Their introduction was consequently so serious and earnest, says Gyllenhaal, that when Lee came up to the stage, he told them,
"That was so gay."