Born on April 4th 1979 in Western Australia Heath Ledger was born for success. For years and years Ledger Acted in Large amounts of amazing movies. But his life took a serious turn when he was asked to play the part of the joker in the Dark Night. Being the second Batman movie ever made the pressure was on to be as good as the first. Jack Nicholson (The jokers of the 1st Batman movie) stressed to Ledger that he better not mess this part up. Because according to Nicholson he barely deserved it, this intensified the load of pressure. In desperate need to get into character Ledger would go to the heart of New York to watch crimes and see for himself how the real ones were done. With all the stress Ledger found it hard to get a good night sleep. So he reported to his doctor, and got a prescription of sleeping pills. Unsure how affective they would be, night after night ledger would take these pills to get a good rest. Then on January 22nd 2008 these sleeping pills overloaded his system and managed to kill him. No one knows exactly how many he took or all the circumstances at hand but everyone knows this was a very tragic day. On July 16th The Dark Night was released and won many awards. But Health Ledger will always be remembered.
Heath Ledger was such an amazing actor!
ReplyDeleteHis roles in Monster's Ball and The Dark Night were so good