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Heath Ledger Tributes and Obituaries...
mvansand76:
This made me cry.... :'(
Ellen's tribute to Heath....
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173248,00.html
MaineWriter:
From People:
Ang Lee Calls Heath's Death 'Heartbreaking'
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2008 03:40 PM EST
Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee reflects fondly on working with Heath Ledger, calling the actor's untimely death "heartbreaking."
"Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life," the director says in a statement. "He brought to the role of Ennis [Del Mar] more than any of us could have imagined – a thirst for life, for love, and for truth, and a vulnerability that made everyone who knew him love him. His death is heartbreaking."
Ledger was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Ennis Del Mar, a taciturn gay cowboy in the 2005 drama.
After completing the film in 2005, Lee spoke to PEOPLE about working on set with his leading man. "He understood the cowboy way, just in the way he posed, and his body language and how it developed over the course of the film," Lee said at the time.
The director also believed that Ledger understood and empathized with his character's darker elements. "He understood the shyness and vulnerability and isolation of the character," said Lee. "He really got that. And he did it while carrying the Western aura."
While praising Ledger's "great worth ethic," the director also opened up about the star's relationship with costar Michelle Williams, joking, "On the set I pushed him towards Jake [Gyllenhaal]. Maybe I pushed him too hard and he escaped out on the other side with Michelle."
"I think he will be a great father," Lee continued at the time, discussing the birth of Ledger's daughter Matilda, now 2-years-old. "It has overwhelmed him, much more than the movie has. He is enjoying every bit of it."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173296,00.html
MaineWriter:
also from People:
Dogtown Director: Heath Was Cast Leader
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2008 01:15 PM EST
By Brenda Rodriguez and Stephen M. Silverman
One director who worked with Heath Ledger remembers her young star as the leader of the pack.
"All the kids, the younger actors, loved him. He was kind of like the den father. He was like the scout leader," Catherine Hardwicke, director of 2005's Lords of Dogtown, about surfers and skateboarders in Venice, Calif., tells PEOPLE.
In the movie, Ledger played the character Skip, the owner of the board shop.
"We just had little tiny trailers on that movie and he set up, like, 'Camp Heath' out in front," remembers Hardwicke. "He had like umbrellas, tiki torches and lawn chairs so everybody could kind of hang out in between scenes and stuff. He was so cool. He would have the cast up to his house, have parties, he really made it into like a family and made everybody feel so good."
Warmly, Hardwicke adds: "You could feel his heart and his soul. He had so much heart. I think he was one of those rare people who could convey that on film. You could feel it from him. He was able to make you feel what he was feeling."
In a professional capacity, she said, "He was so creative. He would come every day and after he would get to hang out with Skip Englebom, who's the character he plays, the skateboard shop guy, he kind of got the feel of him. As soon as he got it, and got under his skin, then he would just be free and come in and do crazy, cool stuff we weren't even expecting."
In particular, she cites "a very dramatic scene, where he's losing the skateboard team that he built up. He said, 'Let me try something.' He walks out in the middle of the room in the middle of this party and just grabs this big surfboard – and he just started swinging it around and all the actors were running out of the way. It's a really cool moment where he free flows, free styles."
Concludes the filmmaker, "On one level your heart is just broken for all the cool stuff we would have seen from Heath."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20173234,00.html
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on January 23, 2008, 04:51:30 pm ---From People:
Ang Lee Calls Heath's Death 'Heartbreaking'
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Thanks, Leslie. I've been wondering what Ang would have to say.
Kelda:
Anything from Jake?
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