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yb:
I come across this interview on the Batman forum, Heath talked about his experience with portraying Dylan and the Joker, enjoy:
http://latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-heath-ledger-on-playing-the-joker-3297
louisev:
yeah but us Heathens have already seen every inch of him already, haven't we, in that cliff running paparazzi shoot from Brokeback? Nothing new there, unless he had some piercings or tats since!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: yb on November 11, 2007, 12:42:23 am ---I come across this interview on the Batman forum, Heath talked about his experience with portraying Dylan and the Joker, enjoy:
http://latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-heath-ledger-on-playing-the-joker-3297
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Betty, I could watch that video over and over and over. Thank you so much! :-*
I think that's a new tattoo he keeps massaging. Can anyone tell what it's of?
Ellemeno:
I just found this:
IESB Exclusive: Heath Ledger Talks the Joker!
Written by Silas Lesnick
Saturday, 10 November 2007
IESB sat down with Heath Ledger this afternoon in New York to discuss his role in the new Todd Haynes Bob Dylan biopic, I'm Not There. We'll have the full video interview up soon, but Ledger briefly discussed his upcoming role in The Dark Knight.
If I had any doubt about Ledger as Joker, it vanished as soon as I saw him in person. His hair was grown out for the role and his eyes darted around the room, never quite making contact with mine. At his side was a clothespin that he handled the entire interview, pinching his fingers as he spoke. It wasn't hard to believe that at any moment he would leap to his feet and kill everybody in the room.
IESB: You're going right from I'm Not There where you have to put your spin on a character set up by other actors and right into Batman where the Joker has been done by not only Jack Nicholson but Cesar Romero, etc as well as the comics. Does it compare at all?
LEDGER: I really don't know. It's like chalk and cheese. My preparation process for this and my process for the Joker are completely different. I mean, for the Joker I locked myself away in a hotel room for six weeks. I just formulated a voice and a posture and found a real psychology behind the Joker. I really put a lot of work into it. And the experience also on a production scale, by the way, is obviously a completely different shoot. Batman is just such a machine. It's huge and I've never worked on anything that big. And the movie is going to be surprisingly good! It's far exceeded my expectations.
IESB: Were there any specific comics you based your version off of?
LEDGER: Well, The Killing Joke is the one that's being passed around and Arkham Asylum kind of. But I really tried to read the comics and put it down. You know, I was a big fan of Jack Nicholson - still am - his portrayal of the Joker was perfect for Tim Burton's world and if Tim Burton had come to me and he was doing the sequel and he asked me to play the Joker in his movie, I wouldn't do it. I couldn't. Because you couldn't touch what Jack Nicholson did. It would be a crime. When Chris came to me, I'd already seen Batman Begins and I really liked it. Because I'd already seen it, I already knew the world, which he had created. I instantly knew of an angle. I instantly knew a way into this character. A way to create a character to fit into this world and so it was fairly immediate. I've got straight away the fact that we're both on the same page in terms of where we want it to be. But I guess we have to wait and see. I haven't seen any of it yet.
Stay tuned to the IESB as we post our complete exclusive interview with Heath Ledger in the upcoming week.
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=2&article=3691
Ellemeno:
Another:
Heath Ledger Says His Joker Has ‘Zero Empathy’
Published by Josh Horowitz on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 4:32 pm.
Even as filming continues on “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger is reflecting on the character he has finished portraying. “It’s the most fun I’ve had with a character and probably will ever have,” Ledger told me today with a mix of wistfulness and relief. Relief because as the Oscar nominee said, “It was an exhausting process. At the end of the day I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I was absolutely wrecked.”
So who is The Joker we’ll meet next summer? “He has zero empathy,” Ledger said, adding that one of the goals for this character was to scare the crap out of audiences next year. Asked about the inspiration for the performance and Ledger cited nothing less than classic Kubrick. “‘A Clockwork Orange’ was a very early starting point for Christian [Bale] and I. But we kind of flew far away from that pretty quickly and into another world altogether.”
When I brought up Sid Vicious as another reported influence on the character, he confirmed the punk rocker was on his mind. “Yeah, I guess so,” attested Ledger. “There’s a bit of everything in him. There’s nothing that consistent.”
Ledger quickly added with a smile, “There are a few more surprises to him.”
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/11/10/heath-ledger-says-his-joker-has-zero-empathy/
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