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Heath Ledger :: Hollywood Maverick Tuesday, January 17 GQ

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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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Heath Ledger, Take 2
GQ February 2006

Some actors are born cred­ible. 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 cam­paign 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 pet­ting zoo where you'd expect to find a person­ality of Ledger's renown, which may be why Ledger chose it. Here, a 26-year-old actor, par­ticularly 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 pe­riodically 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 an­onymity, anyway. He's a little too comfort­able with the space his six-foot-two-inch frame takes up in the world, and the mus­cles of his jaw are a little too ropy, and his Aussie-accented voice--so preposterously deep it could belong to a circus strong­man--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 bor­dered 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 Pa­triot. The fact that young Heath, who says he's always been a "terrible auditioner," ba­sically 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 Led­ger 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 optimis­tic 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 Pa­triot 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 manufac­tured," 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 bag­gage. 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 hap­pened--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 my­self 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 na­tive England (this we had to Google). Led­ger 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 narra­tive 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/Break­through, 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 capa­ble of working at that level came last sum­mer with Lords of Dogtown. Uglied up to look like Peter Frampton after a few nights in a hobo encampment, he played surf­board 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 smoth­ered. His work in the film has already gar­nered 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 car­ries 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 tug­ging 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.

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Super tout ça !
Avoue le maintenant : tu as un radard à Heath Ledger intégré dans le cerveau

Bobbyzowski a écrit:

Super tout ça !
Avoue le maintenant : tu as un radard à Heath Ledger intégré dans le cerveau

Je le savais

je crois qu'on a le même béguin. TROP BEAU

cllau a écrit:

je crois qu'on a le même béguin. TROP BEAU

Viiii

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 ...

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 !!!

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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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 !!!

Béelle a écrit:

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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.

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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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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THE NEW HEARTTHROB #1 :: Heath Ledger, Actor. Sixteen films. In a famous magazine cover from six years ago, a 21-year-old Heath Ledger won some attention by showing off his man-patch, which was peeking out over his belt buckle. He also had a killer smile, that Aussie brand of devil-may-care charm, a major part in The Patriot (2000) -- and he could play the didgeridoo to boot. But now, with the success of Brokeback Mountain, he's winning attention because of his meticulous devotion to the craft of acting. (He was so good, it was good enough to make you forget The Brothers Grimm, from earlier in the year.) He followed up the "gay cowboy movie" with something quuite different, playing the womanizing title character in Lasse Hallstrom's well-received romp, Casanova.

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Il y a un article sur Heath dans le magasine Gala du 15 février.

Je l'ai scanné mais je ne sais pas comment le mettre sur le forum sans qu'il n'apparaisse trop petit ??

De l'aide please

Tyty a écrit:

Il y a un article sur Heath dans le magasine Gala du 15 février.

Je l'ai scanné mais je ne sais pas comment le mettre sur le forum sans qu'il n'apparaisse trop petit ??

De l'aide please

TU vas dans http://www.imageshack.us/ host-it et tu prends la reference Thumbnail for forums (1)
que tu places directement sur ton message!!

ex!

J'espere t'avoir aidé

Mon image est vraiment trop grande !! Si je la réduit, on n'arrive plus à lire le texte ! LeyleyDrive, est ce que tu resize image? avant de cliquer sur host-it ?

Tyty a écrit:

Mon image est vraiment trop grande !! Si je la réduit, on n'arrive plus à lire le texte ! LeyleyDrive, est ce que tu resize image? avant de cliquer sur host-it ?

pas forcement avec Thumbnail for forums (1) ça suffit les gens aprés cliqueront dessus pour la voir en grand et du coup voir ce qu'il y a ecris dessus!! voila j'espere avoir repondu !!
Bon allez faut que je file au ciné bye a vous tous a toute à l'heure

Ca y est ! J'ai réussis Merci beaucoup LeyleyDrive !

Tyty a écrit:

Ca y est ! J'ai réussis Merci beaucoup LeyleyDrive !

Heureusement que tu as réussi avec un article pareil
Merci à toi

Bon ce n'est pas dans le presse!! article d'allociné!!
Interview de Heath Ledger à Santa Barbara Film Festival

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Vous êtes nerveux à l'approche des Oscars ?Heath Ledger : Oui, je suis assez nerveux, et je ne crois pas que ça va va rester ainsi, que je ne vais pas changer et que je vais rester le même. J'essaye de rester calme mais j'ai hâte que tout ça soit terminé...

Vous avez été surpris par votre nomination ?Oui, ça a été une vraie surprise, mais je n'ai pas encore vraiment eu le temps d'y penser. C'est tellement énorme. Et en même temps, toute cette attention va peut-être s'évanouir une fois le show terminé...

Qu'est-ce que vous comptez faire une fois que tout ça sera terminé justement ?Pour le moment, j'essaye de me reposer un peu car toute cette attention médiatique autour des Oscars et du succès du Secret de Brokeback Mountain m'a épuisé. Et puis j'ai tourné dans Casanova récemment. Par la suite, je vais sans doute faire un film sur le surf, sous la direction de Stacy Peralta.

Quels sont les aspects positifs et négatifs de ce succès soudain ?
Et bien, le côté positif, c'est d'être ici ce soir avec mon épouse Michelle (Williams). La famille, c'est le plus important à mes yeux. Et ce qui est bien quand vous faites des tapis rouges avec votre femme, c'est qu'on se tient la main et qu'on se pince doucement chaque fois qu'on nous pose une question stupide. C'est un petit eu marrant entre nous. Quand aux aspects négatifs, je ne sais pas trop car j'essaye de ne pas être négatif dans la vie.

"Brokeback Mountain" véhicule un vrai message de tolérance. C'est important pour vous de défendre un tel film ?Bien sûr, je suis ravi si les gens retirent ces idées du film. Mais pour être honnête, nous n'avons pas pensé à cela en tournant Le Secret de Brokeback Mountain. Nous ne pensions pas à cet aspect "politique" du film, jusqu'à ce qu'il sorte et que les gens en parlent. C'est quelque chose de très beau qui a accompagé ce film, et je suis heureux que les gens l'aient autant apprécié, ainsi que nos performances.

En parlant de performance, comment se glisse t-on dans la peau d'un cowboy gay ?
Et bien ce qui est sûr, c'est que vous en devez pas aller dans une école gay pour jouer un cowboy gay. Vous essayez de découvrir le personnage de l'intérieur. Il s'agit surtout d'interpréter un être humain, et de ressentir ce que le personnage ressent. C'était un tournage difficile : c'était un travail très solitaire et très fatigant, et en même temps passionnant et gratifiant. Ce film m'a fait mûrir et grandir en tant qu'acteur et en tant qu'être humain. Je suis vraiment reconnaissant d'avoir vécu cette expérience.

Propos recueillis par Emmanuel Itier à Santa Barbara le 8 févier 2006

Juste un petit article "people" issu du Télé grandes chaînes n°47 du 14 au 27 janvier 2006

Source : forum Allociné (posté par elsou78)