ON PRESS REPORTS THE JOKER WAS SENDING HEATH LEDGER MAD: He’s working with people like Gary Oldman, who he just adored and idolised.

And he’s like, “I’m sitting there... And he can’t do anything to me in the scenes! He can hit me – and I don’t feel anything!”

And he just was giggling like a kid the whole time! And that was why it was bullshit, the whole story, why it made me so angry. This is playing. It wasn’t a tortured artist at work.




ON HEATH: Heath was extraordinary. It’s like one of my family dying.

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