Terry Gilliam clearly bonded with Heath Ledger during the making of The Brothers Grimm, finding the sort if kindred spirit friendship he hadn’t enjoyed since meeting Johnny Depp.

Ledger was quick to sign on to Dr Parnassus, and Gilliam wasn’t sure the film could continue when he died: "The choice I made was to close the film down. I couldn't see how we could finish it without Heath because we were in the middle of production. Fortunately, I was surrounded by really good people who insisted that I shouldn't be such a lazy bastard and I'd better go out and find a way of finishing the film for Heath. That's what we did.

“Heath was enjoying himself so much and he was ad-libbing a lot which I don't really allow that much in my films. He got everybody else going. Everybody was just energized by Heath, he was extraordinary, and he was almost exhausting."

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