Over 15 years after his loss of life, new particulars are nonetheless rising about Heath Ledger.
Last week, director Stephen Gaghan stopped by creator Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast and revealed some stunning particulars in regards to the state Heath was present in. The Dark Knight actor’s father Kim and an in depth buddy have been those to seek out him in his NYC residence, however Stephen claimed on the podcast that they referred to as HIM after making the tragic discovery.
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Apparently, the late actor was within the early levels of working with Stephen on a movie adaptation of Malcolm’s 2005 guide Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, and when he was present in mattress, the script was proper there with him. Stephen informed Malcolm:
“I got a phone call, they were on speakerphone and it was Heath Ledger’s father, who I’d never met … and a guy who was really close to him. They were there with the body, and our script was in bed with him, and your book was on the bedside table.”
So horrific… As we all know, Heath sadly died of an unintended drug overdose in January 2008.
Stephen continued:
“I think my number was on the script — like written. These guys are in, as you can imagine, they are in shock. And they dialed that number, and I don’t know why.”
As for the way he reacted to listening to the information, the Dolittle director shared:
“I literally just collapsed. It’s never happened to me before or since. My feet went out from under me. I just literally sat down because I was like, ‘What? What?’ The emotion, what they were going through, I should not have been a party to in any way, really, and yet as a human and somebody who just cares, I just was there and I was listening. My wife was looking at me. I remember her face and I was just speechless. I just listened and listened and listened. It was just really, really sad. And it’s still sad.”
How traumatic.
Stephen claimed that he’d change into “very close” with Heath throughout the growth of the movie, and determined to “put a pin in it” after the tragic information.
Every element we hear of Heath’s tragic case simply makes issues all of the extra unhappy… He was actually taken far too quickly.
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