Inside Heath Ledger


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04X3B9-dLU

Ledger?s father doesn?t read directly from the diary and most of the text is difficult to make out, but on one page you can clearly see, ?Why So Serious?? written at the bottom. At the top of one entry, highlighted in pink is ?HOSPITAL ROOM? and below it reads the Joker?s monologue from the hospital scene with Harvey Dent. ?I don?t want there to be any hard feelings between us, Harvey. When you and Rachel were being adbucted, I was sitting in Gordon?s cage. I didn?t rig those charges.?

The clip is from a German documentary, Ledger?s father speaks English and the dialogue is curiously overdubbed into French but a translation provided by a YouTube user allows us to hear Kim Ledger?s words as he flips through the diary:

This is the Joker?s diary. In order to inhabit his character, he locked himself up in a hotel room for weeks. He would do that. He liked to dive into his characters, but this time he really took it up a notch.

The hospital scene is interesting because when he was a kid, his sister Kate liked to dress him up as a nurse. He was really funny like that. He also was in the movie. This is a make-up test which was done eight months before. Before the end of the shooting he wrote ?bye bye? on the back of the page. It was hard to see this.

http://screencrush.com/inside-heath-ledgers-dark-knight-diary/

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