The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Ellemeno]

In Lords of Dogtown, Heath wore prosthetic teeth in his portrayal of Skip Engblom.

Engblom -- played by Ledger in Lords of Dogtown -- still makes surfboards for a living, although he has moved up-market from Venice, aka Dogtown, to leafy Brentwood with his wife Martha.  The two spent time together in Los Angeles while Ledger studied Engblom's mannerisms and his distinctive, nasal accent. Having mastered those, the next hurdle was teeth.

``I have pathetic, little, wimpish, midget teeth and Skip has such strong chompers,'' Ledger said. ``It was quite funny because it took a couple of weeks to get his voice and when I finally got it I was, `OK, cool, got that done'. But then I was like, `Oh, s---, the teeth!'

``They brought in fake teeth and I put them in and suddenly I was talking like this.''  He started ``whistling'' his words before continuing: ``I had this lisp I had to get rid of and it was a week away from filming, so I had to go back to square one and learn the accent all over again so I could pronounce my s's correctly without spitting on everyone.''

http://attitude.themercury.news.com.au/cheese_ledger.htm

[memento]

Heath played the role of Harry Faversham in The Four Feathers.

[southendmd]

Heath starred as Jacob Grimm with Matt Damon in The Brothers Grimm.

[Fran]

In 1999, Heath starred in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You.

[Toast]

At 22, Heath discussed his friends, hometown, personal stability and stardom while being interviewed by tiscali.co.uk:

"If anything you wish that if one place wasn't to change it would be your home town but I was back there recently and they were documenting every meal I had every day," he laughs. It was in the paper that I ate fettucini on Tuesday, still that's front page news in Perth."

[southendmd]

In A Knight's Tale, Heath played William Thatcher, aka Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein of Gelderland.

[memento]

Heath played the role of Sonny Grotowski in Monster's Ball which earned him high praise from critics.

[Fran]

Heath played the title role in Gregor Jordan's Ned Kelly.

[Toast]

In early 2003 Ledger returned to Australia to promote Gregor Jordan’s Ned Kelly, a movie in which he starred as the country’s most notorious late nineteenth century outlaw. Ledger’s recitation of Kelly’s famous “Jerilderie Letter”, an angry denunciation of the colonial government authorities and their repression of dirt-poor small farmers, is one of the movie’s better moments—but the film was ill-conceived and superficial.

Heath Ledger dead at 28: a life tragically cut short

[memento]

Heath played the part of Gabriel Martin in The Patriot.