Or the surfers-turned skate team that Ledger’s Skip helped gather in Lords Of Dogtown.

Director Catherine Hardwicke recalls the actor’s push to have real beer on the set to help his performance.

“With other actors, it was a problem. They came on the set too f****d up and couldn’t say their lines. For Heath, that was never an issue. But you just never know.

“There was one scene where his character is losing it at a party. He got up on the roof, and we didn’t know if he was going to fall off and kill himself or throw his surfboard at somebody or what. Everybody was semi-terrified. You just didn’t know where his chemistry was. I literally prayed.”
 

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