Young Heath Ledger Pt 8
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Heath Ledger Interview
By EC Gladstone
E: I read somewhere else that you got tap shoes?
HL; Yeah for fun. Just for fun.
E: So you don’t have aspirations to do a musical or something like that.
HL: No.
E: You seem like an awfully confident guy for somebody who is 21. Where does that come from?
HL: Um, just not giving a shit, I guess. I just see the humor in everything and I don’t take a lot that serious, and that’s it. And if it’s confidence, then it’s confidence.
E: So you are still in the middle of making A Knight’s Tale…
HL: Yeah, I’m going back tomorrow morning.
E: Do you feel more pressure having a film on your shoulders, so to speak?
HL: No. No. No. You know, it’s like you’re doing the same thing when they call action and cut, it’s the same thing. You just don’t think about that stuff. I don’t. Well, now I am.
E: Because of me, you mean.
HL: Yeah.
E: Sorry about that. What’s the weirdest thing anyone’s asked you in one of these things?
HL: I don’t know… Do you have a pet kangaroo? Would you ride a kangaroo to school? Yes, No.
E: Are you feeling any pressure in terms of all this attention?
HL: No, no, I just come back and I am like one day here, this is all very weird, and then I just fuck off and I go do my thing, and I hang out with my mates, and I go back to normal. I become the donkey -fucking mate of my friends and that’s it.
E: You’re doing Four Feathers next, right?
HL: Yup.
Eric: That’s going to be in Morocco? It’s kind of like a mystical tale, or something?
HL: It’s a long story. Do I have to explain it? My head’s fucking absent right now, and its like, ugh, jet lag has just kicked in now.
E: Who’s the coolest person you’ve met so far?
HL: Jack Nicholson. I met him a couple of times, just at parties and stuff like that. He’s a cool cat. Yeah, he doesn’t give a shit.
E: Any aspirations in terms of something you’d like to do, someone you’d like to work with, anything like that?
HL: I don’t know. There’s so many of them, you know, it’s just fuckin’ so hard to say who’s your favorite actor, who’s your favorite director… I can’t, it’s impossible. I respect so many different
actors and filmmakers for different reasons that its hard to just put a finger on one thing.
Continued in part 9
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