Film Faces

Heath Ledger Interview
By EC Gladstone

EG: Would you like to go back and do more work in Australia?

HL: Yes, Yes– This is my dad.  Hey, dad, come say hi to the interviewer.

Kim Ledger: Hi, guys.

HL: You should say my son’s a good boy.

Kim: My son’s an excellent boy. [laughs] Always had been.

EG:  Did he give you any trouble when he was a lad?

Kim:  Always, always, always gave me trouble.

EG:  What’s the most embarrassing thing he ever did?

Kim: Wow, there’s so many of them, we don’t really know, we just couldn’t start, we’ve had such fun, haven’t we?

EG:  Was he always this confident?

Kim: Always, no matter what he does.

EG:  Does he get that from you?

Kim: Nah, no he’s taught me a lot.

EG:  What did you think when he decided to pack up and move to Sydney?

Kim:  Am I allowed to swear on that thing?  I shit myself.

EG:  Were you worried for him?

Kim:  Yeah! of course.  I was worried for me as well–I was missing him like hell.

EG:  What did you think of him and Mel in the film?

Kim:  Great chemistry.  Great chemistry.  Great Chemistry.  I thought it was very good.  I’m going to have to have a talk to Mel later, because I would’ve preferred that he brought him back for me, I didn’t like the dying scene.

HL: Yeah he should have done that CPR course.  He should have.

EG:  So are you having fun tonight?

Kim:  Yeah, it’s excellent.  I mean this is the first big thing we’ve been it, like this, it’s just amazing.

Heath gets drawn into another conversation, and I finish with Kim and give both my good wishes.