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 Heath Ledger
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo Heath Ledger can come across as the intense, silent type in some of his films, namely in the pent-up frustrations of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain or the suppressed agony of Sonny, his suicidal character in Monster’s Ball. But at a recent press junket for his film I’m Not There, he’s relaxed, almost playful. When one sleepy journalist starts to doze off right in the middle of one of his answers, Ledger is the first one to call him out. “Wake up!” he interrupts his well-thought-out answer to shout. “I know I’m boring, but come on!” Of course, he’s just messing with the sleep-deprived reporter. And the truth is, Ledger is quite riveting and not at all to be blamed for an impromptu nap. I’m Not There is a film which chronicles the life of Bob Dylan, using different actors (and one daring actress—Cate Blanchett) to portray the singer during various stages. Ledger plays one of the incarnations of Dylan, “Robbie”. “Essentially Todd dissected Bob and I was like an amputated limb,” he says. “So I was just concentrating on one arm of Bob Dylan. And likewise Todd dissected the script and handed us little short films so we just concentrated on our stories. I guess I tend to feel that the story my character and Charlotte’s character lives within, their circumstance and the era are represented more in a portrait of Dylan than perhaps the actual individual. In the end of the day what did I learn about Bob? I read the books, I watched the documentaries, and my catalogue of Dylan’s music was expanded, but I think the beauty of Todd’s film is that I can’t tell you that I know anything more about Bob Dylan than you do. Todd respectfully tried to preserve Bob Dylan’s mystique and has kept him respectfully in the shadows still. I kind of still feel that way, happily.” There are different approaches one could take when making a film based on a real person. They could do a lot of research and preparation, or they can choose to let the character form naturally. Ledger thinks it’s usually a mixture of the two. “I think it’s a bit of both,” he says. “I think it’s necessary and unnecessary. I think we can under-prepare, we can over-prepare. I think it’s all to fill our superstitious needs and to comfort ourselves. But in the end of the day you usually just have an understanding of what you’re going to do innately. It’s kind of embedded somewhere.” Perhaps Ledger’s real-life role as a father helped him relate to portraying Robbie’s personal and family life. “I guess just like anyone in this industry, it’s a fairly gypsy-esque lifestyle,” he says. “I can certainly relate to that, like struggling with keeping consistency with family life and your social life and your professional life. It’s both an annoyance and it’s also an addiction. So I can definitely ... |
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