‘I was told to stay away from him’: The Dark Knight actor talks about meeting Heath Ledger.

The opening sequence of the anthology, flawless staging, glacial and enchanting photography, an absolutely masterful soundtrack… The Dark Knight, the second part of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy dedicated to the adventures of Batman, is memorable in many ways.

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Still, among all the memorable elements of the feature film, one of those that will have the greatest impact on its audience is undoubtedly Heath Ledger’s terrifying performance as the interpreter of the Dark Knight’s sworn enemy: the fearsome and diabolical Joker. A role that won the actor a posthumous Oscar, as the young actor died a few months before the film’s release.

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If Batman fans shivered at Ledger’s powerful on-screen performance, we can easily imagine his co-stars breaking into a cold sweat at his on-set contact. However, this is not the case.

Indeed, as actor Eric Roberts, who plays mafia boss Salvatore Maroni in The Dark Knight, told him a few months ago, some people warned him about Heath Ledger, but when he arrived on set, he was surprised to find that all those rumors had no basis.

“Everything I was told about him was false.”

“He was a lovely person. I was told to stay away from him, that he had a temper, that he was lost. But that wasn’t the case at all. He was great.”he said in the podcast Still here HollywoodHe even explained that during a scene where Heath Ledger was supposed to deliver a three-page monologue, he came out completely during rehearsals to ask the other actors on the set for their opinion.

“He was so friendly, kind, normal. Everything I was told about him was a lie. He was a charming person. His death was a great loss.”

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