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|  Heath Ledger :: Hollywood Maverick Tuesday, January 17 GQ
| Citation: | He was a jousting, horse-riding creation of Hollywood, until he took himself off the hunk track and found honest work--in movies about Lotharios and gay cowboys, no less. Now, with a new love, a new baby and a whole lot of Oscar buzz behind him, we have to ask: Dude, what the hell were you thinking?
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| Citation: | Heath Ledger, Take 2
GQ February 2006
Some actors are born credÂible. Some have credibility thrust upon them. And some actors have to work a little harder. This is basically the only way in which it sucks to be Heath Ledger, who-- because he is handsome, and charismatic, and Australian, and the one time beneficiary of a pretty excessive public-relations camÂpaign designed to make the American moviegoer aware of those qualities--has not, until recently, been the kind of actor people associate with, y'know, acting.
The Ledger we got to know on-screen seemed totally fine with this state of affairs, at least at first. He was content to swagger and joust and brood his way through parts that required only the movie-star stuff he possessed in spades: his boldness, his easy physicality, his jolly surf's-up grin. This kind of work came naturally to him, and you could see him doing it without shame for the rest of his life. And then something weird happened.
"I guess pride came in and bit me on the ankle," Ledger says, and laughs. "I was really bored with the movies I'd done, and I was really bored with the choices I was given as a result of the boring work I'd done, and I realized I could be doing better."
Ledger is sitting at a table in a smallish New York coffeehouse, on one of those wet autumn mornings about which Suzanne Vega songs set in smallish New York coffeehouses have been written. The furniture is wobbly, and the restroom is for customers only. It's not the kind of low-lit celebrity petÂting zoo where you'd expect to find a personÂality of Ledger's renown, which may be why Ledger chose it. Here, a 26-year-old actor, parÂticularly if he's patchily bearded and dressed in slouchy jeans and beat-up Nike Dunks, could almost pass for, say, an unemployed Web designer, just nursing a cappuccino and waiting out the rain. Of course, he's the only person in here who has to duck out peÂriodically to feed the meter on a big silvery BMW sedan, which sort of blows his normal-guy cover.
But Ledger's genetically ill-suited for anÂonymity, anyway. He's a little too comfortÂable with the space his six-foot-two-inch frame takes up in the world, and the musÂcles of his jaw are a little too ropy, and his Aussie-accented voice--so preposterously deep it could belong to a circus strongÂman--cuts a little too handily through the background chatter, the dated trip-hop on the stereo, and the hiss of steaming milk.
He's grown into it over time, this voice. In his early films--if it isn't too absurd to speak of "early Heath Ledger films"--it borÂdered on bizarre. It set him apart from the cast of TV-groomed pip-squeaks he starred with in 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You, his American debut. The film--in which Ledger, as an ostensibly badass exchange student, sulks cutely under a helmet of black-dyed curls and feigns interest in Julia Stiles--is one of the dreariest high school romantic comedies ever green-lighted. Ledger was just happy to be there.
"I was 18 years old," he says. "The idea of being an Australian from Perth and getting offered a movie with Touchstone Pictures? I was like, 'Who gives a ****? Put me in your movie!' I thought, If I don't take this, maybe nothing will ever happen."
It was not the last lousy movie Ledger would make, but it was the last lousy movie he'd make in which the plot hinged on who would escort whom to the prom. And it got him an audition for the role of Gabriel Martin, the eldest son of a Ye Olde Roade Warrior type played by Mel Gibson, in the bloody Revolutionary War drama The PaÂtriot. The fact that young Heath, who says he's always been a "terrible auditioner," baÂsically stank up the room the first time he read for director Roland Emmerich--but still got the role! because he was just that good!--instantly became part of the LedÂger legend, which was growing by the day. There he was, getting the man-ingenue treatment on the cover of the August 2000 issue of Vanity Fair--baring a few inches of tanned, toned stomach, next to an optimisÂtic blurb that invoked Gibson and Russell Crowe and touted Ledger as the hot new Aussie in Hollywood.
And for a minute there, this sales pitch had the benefit of almost being true. Ledger didn't actually have to do much in The PaÂtriot except ride a horse, wield a flintlock, and not look ridiculous in atricornered hat, yet it was enough to persuade Columbia Pictures to rush a Ledger star vehicle--the agreeably doofy medieval action-comedy A Knight's Tale--into production. A poster for the movie featured Ledger in close-up, scowling dreamily, above the tagline he will rock you. It was at this point that Heath Ledger began to freak out a little.
"My success, early on, was manufacÂtured," Ledger says. "It was invested in by studios. They found this kid, they put him in a movie. They're like, 'Let's put his face on a poster. Let's put him on the cover of these magazines. Let's turn him into a star.' I wasn't ready for it. I felt like I hadn't done anything to deserve it."
Then, with a smile, and what we are fast coming to know as that oF Ledgerian self-effacement, he adds, "I couldn't act!"
So, like many actors with much to learn and even more to prove, he signed up for a small part in a modestly budgeted, ensemble-y indie film about abject human misery. In the 2001 drama Monster's Ball, Ledger, his square jaw quivering with intimidation and self-loathing, played a tormented death-row screw who spends his discretionary hours banging prostitutes, glumly, and offs himself before the movie's an hour old. His strong-but-not-showy performance helped him shed some of that he-will-rock-you bagÂgage. And in a different way, so did his next few projects, resounding flops like the big-budget period epic The Four Feathers and the hunky-priest-battles-evil murkfest The Order. Ledger says the failure of these films was the best thing that could have hapÂpened--and maybe it's easy for him to say this now, things having turned out as well as they have, but still.
"I needed to go out and make some bad movies and some interesting movies that weren't based on safe box-office choices," he says. "I almost didn't want them to make money. I wanted to suffocate [the hype] a little. And it worked. Because people quickly forget about you. They're like, 'Oh, your movies don't make money? **** off for a while.' It gives you space to sit back a little and get perspective on things.
"Consciously or subconsciously," he says, "I wanted to kind of destroy it all and shake it all up, and go, 'Back off, leave me alone. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, and you're gonna hate all of it.' I needed to cleanse myÂself of this commercial filth that was being injected into me. I needed to be reborn."
It has stopped raining. Ledger is approached by another cafe patron, one Daniel Bedingfield, who is apparently a pop singer of not-insignificant acclaim in his naÂtive England (this we had to Google). LedÂger is nothing but polite, but it's clear that the whole fellowship-of-the-famous angle Bedingfield's trying to work is lost on him.
"I've seen your movies," Bedingfield says, "and you've seen my album!"
He might as well have pointed out that he and Ledger are both mammals, for all the good it does. Ledger makes nice for a couple more seconds, until Bedingfield takes his leave. Then he leans toward us a little.
"Who was that?" he asks.
"I know there's a master narraÂtive out there that says Heath was in these y terrible movies, but I beg to differ," say Brokeback Mountain producer James Sma-mus, a big fan of Ledger's Australian/BreakÂthrough, the 1999 gangster flick Two Hands, directed by Gregor Jordan. "Gregor tapped into this part of Heath that's both heroic and vulnerable, and he's stunning."
The first sign that Ledger was still capaÂble of working at that level came last sumÂmer with Lords of Dogtown. Uglied up to look like Peter Frampton after a few nights in a hobo encampment, he played surfÂboard shaper Skip Engblom, the Fagin-like ringleader of the Z-Boys skateboard team. Here, Ledger appeared to very much enjoy slicing the particular brand of ham the role required (a task he took up again as the titular puffy-shirted Lothario in the recent Casanova). And then there was "the gay-cowboy movie," in which Ledger, starring opposite the born-credible Jake Gyllenhaal, surprised nearly everyone by giving the best performance of his career--a restrained, heartbreaking depiction of emotions smothÂered. His work in the film has already garÂnered a slew of critics awards, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a drama. "He had that macho, western, nonverbal, turn-of-the-last-century aura," says Brokeback director Ang Lee. "He carÂries both aggression and fear, like two sides of a blade."
For a while, Ledger indulges our need for some actorly insight. He talks about how he tried to physicalize his character's repression with his voice: "I wanted any word that came out of his mouth to have to kind of punch its way past his tonsils and out through his lips." He says some other smart things, but he's tugÂging at the cuffs and buckles of his coat as he says them, his right knee pumping. Self-promotional blather in the guise of shoptalk may be a standard mode of interview discourse, but--because he's genuinely humble, ancltoiuinely wary of coming off like a pretep tious jackass--Ledger's reluctant to go there.
Suitehttp://justjared.blogspot.com/2006/01/heath-ledger-gq.html
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| Super tout ça !
Avoue le maintenant : tu as un radard à Heath Ledger intégré dans le cerveau 
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| | Bobbyzowski a écrit: | Super tout ça !
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| | cllau a écrit: | | je crois qu'on a le même béguin. TROP BEAU |
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| | Sujet: Re: \Heath dans la presse/ Mar 7 Fév - 23:24 | |
| OUI OUI OUI !!!! 
Encore, encore ... Je l'adore ce Heath .. ou ce Ennis, ou ce gorgeous man !!!
Quand je le vois je suis
Trop beau, trop profond dans ce film, trop tout ... Et moi pas assez ... Moi, pas Michelle, et puis trop vieille ... Tiens voilà, j'ai le bourdon ...
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| | Béelle a écrit: | OUI OUI OUI !!!!
Encore, encore ... Je l'adore ce Heath .. ou ce Ennis, ou ce gorgeous man !!!
Quand je le vois je suis
Trop beau, trop profond dans ce film, trop tout ... Et moi pas assez ... Moi, pas Michelle, et puis trop vieille ... Tiens voilà, j'ai le bourdon ... |
Oui quelle chanceuse cette michelle 
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| | Sujet: Re: \Heath dans la presse/ Mar 7 Fév - 23:33 | |
| LeyleyDrive, comment as-tu fait pour que ton avatar s'anime ? Parce que le mien qui s'anime sur mon disque dur reste fixe ici ...  Et moi qui l'ai choisi parce qu'Heath (me) fait un beau sourire !!!
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| | Béelle a écrit: | | LeyleyDrive, comment as-tu fait pour que ton avatar s'anime ? Parce que le mien qui s'anime sur mon disque dur reste fixe ici ... Et moi qui l'ai choisi parce qu'Heath (me) fait un beau sourire !!! |
Attends je vais essayer quelque chose!! aurais-tu le lien de ton icon?
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| http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/41228549/2799003
Enfin !!! je viens de passer une heure sur le forum d'allo pour retrouver l'adresse URL de mon avatar !!!! Et j'ai trouvé 
Merci de me dire ce que je peux faire pour le faire bouger !!!
En plus une bonne nouvelle n'arrive jamais seule : j'ai à nouveau le haut débit !!!
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Enfin !!! je viens de passer une heure sur le forum d'allo pour retrouver l'adresse URL de mon avatar !!!! Et j'ai trouvé
Merci de me dire ce que je peux faire pour le faire bouger !!!
En plus une bonne nouvelle n'arrive jamais seule : j'ai à nouveau le haut débit !!! |
OK merci!! bon je vais essayer quelque chose je vais voir si ça fonctionne!! cool pour l'adsl
Bon alors j'ai été voir et en fait le probleme vient du fait que l'icon que tu as choisi est beaucoup trop volumineuse, si tu en choisi une autre en gif animé de taille correcte, c'est-a-dire pas plus de 20ko ça doit fonctionner voila.
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| Merci pour ta réponse, mais je ne sais pas où en trouver une animée de pas plus de 20 KO .... qui me plaise, et avec heath de surcroit !!! Trop difficile la nana !
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| | Béelle a écrit: | | Merci pour ta réponse, mais je ne sais pas où en trouver une animée de pas plus de 20 KO .... qui me plaise, et avec heath de surcroit !!! Trop difficile la nana ! |
Oui t'inquietes je sais ce que c'est looool heath tout un programme
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