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 Heath Ledger
Interview By: Dan Portnoy
*Click Here For Another Interview with Heath Ledger The chances of catching this young, attractive, personable Australian native on screen have increased since his breakout role in the American film, 10 Things I Hate about You. Although his role in the film may not have been ideal for Heath Ledger, it put his name on the map. Since then he has been popping up all over the place, quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s more recognizable young talents. He sits at a rounded table, eyes forward with a slight smile across his face, focused and eager to talk about his new film, The Brothers Grimm, which happens to be one of this summer’s films people should actually get out and see. The film itself is a compilation of genres, packed full of action, adventure, comedy and a few startling surprises spawned from the creative mind of its director, Terry Gilliam. The Brothers Grimm, loosely based on the lovable German fairytales, tells the story of two sibling con artists, Jacob (Ledger) and Wilhelm (Matt Damon), who go from village to village pretending to cast out mystical creatures and age old folkloric beings. By giving the townsfolk a false sense of security, the two can make a steady profit handling and disposing of imaginary danger. It isn’t long before karma catches up with the two brothers when real spirits and real danger threaten a small village. Time for the true valor of Jacob and Wilhelm to be tested; who knows if the imaginative world Gilliam created will allow them to succeed. Whether they do succeed in the film or not, Heath was glad to be working with a director like Gilliam, whose notoriety for creating films that stretch the imagination had him immediately intrigued. “We [Heath and Damon] both came on board with the same level of enthusiasm for working with Terry, wanting to do our jobs. So we saw eye to eye on everything. It really wasn’t a stretch for us.” Agreeable as things may have been, the fantastic world that Gilliam created demanded a great deal from everyone involved in the film, especially the actors. “It was Terry who dared us to be bad, who allowed us to be eccentric or bigger. We had to be big because we’re competing with his sets and the beautiful world he’s creating and if we weren’t bigger we would have been chewed up by it.” Big they were indeed and therefore chewed up they were not. Heath and Damon still experienced new things around every corner making the actual filming of the movie more exciting than “Grimm.” Sorry, I couldn’t resist. “We had heaps of fun, every day was just different.” And if there’s something that Heath enjoys, it’s varying the type of characters he plays from film to film. With a fear of being typecast, particularly as the young studly rebellious ... |
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