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 In preparing for a role as a heroin addict, Ledger had to shed the heartthrob image he was famously known for, both physically and mentally. ‘I had to stay out of the sun and I tried to eat less’ he said. ‘Abbie and I went to this center in Sydney and we met a gentleman who has been using and still is, over the last 20 years. He took us into a boardroom and showed us a prosthetic arm which was used to train young drug addicts how to find veins so he showed us what angles to inject at and how to tie the tourniquets’. Some of the most harrowing scenes in the movie are those in which the two go cold turkey and try to live without heroin, scenes which Ledger says were as accurate as possible. ‘We had someone on set that could take us through step-by-step the stages from experience. Now you’re in a cold sweat, in this next scene your stomach feels like its twisting up into a knot, your headaches, you’re parched, just spelt it out for us’. As many of his peers fall foul of drugs and alcohol and find themselves on the road to rehab or worse, Ledger believes that there is a dangerous connection made between the two worlds. ‘I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified in the art world and what it takes to create’ he believes ‘But creation comes from your mind and its hard to create when you’re fazed and drugged out. I’m sure drugs and alcohol would perhaps inspire new thoughts but its certainly not something I use as a tool to create’. For such a dark, heavy role, you’d expect an actor who immersed himself so perfectly to struggle in lifting himself out of such a bottomless pit. ‘It doesn‘t really affect me personally‘ claims Ledger. ‘I kind of save that living through it part for that moment between action and cut and certainly when the film’s over I just throw it all away and I’m very excited to get back home’. Home for Ledger is Brooklyn, New York. On the set of Brokeback Mountain, Ledger met and fell in love with his co-star Michelle Williams and the two recently brought a house in Brooklyn, a place where Ledger feels he can lead a normal life. ‘I adore it. I love the real sense of community, I love my neighbors, I love the coffee shop down the road. We really are left there to live. It feels like we’re on an island when we’re just next to one’. Now having made the ... |
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