Young Heath Ledger
"Doors kept opening and I just kept walking through them"
Heath Ledger Interview
By EC Gladstone
Heath Ledger is the picture of calm. Strolling into a suite at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel, the 21-year-old actor, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, jeans and sandals, looks tanned, rested, and ready. You would have no idea looking at him that he is at the center of a whirlwind. Having just flown in from the
Young Heath Ledger Pt 2
Heath Ledger Interview Part 2
By EC Gladstone
EG: What are your parents’ names, what do they do?
HL: Sally and Kim. Kim Ledger is my dad. Dad’s in the engineering industry. He designed a crusher for mine sites. And uh, he started a engineering company called Ledger Engineering. And he’s built and raced racing cars for the last 30 years.
EG: So what was growing up like, do you have any brothers
Young Heath Ledger Pt 3
Heath Ledger Interview Part 3
By EC Gladstone
EG: Where are you living now?
HL: Prague.
EG: Just wherever you’re laying your hat? No fixed address?
HL: No its true, yeah, no fixed address, I got bags.
EG: How’s Prague been?
HL: Oh it’s cool. Yeah, it’s a beautiful city, I had no idea what it was going to be like before I got there. I hadn’t really looked into Prague ever before. But it’s gorgeous,
Young Heath Ledger Pt 4
Heath Ledger Interview
By EC Gladstone
EG: You were telling me when we met at ShoWest that you’d done horse riding before.
HL: Yeah, yeah. I had done it before on a couple of jobs I had done previously, and I uh, I had done occasionally, you know with some friends and stuff like that. Up here in the hills. Up in Beachwood [Canyon], there’s a horse ranch up there. Yeah, and
Young Heath Ledger Pt 5
EG: The story is that you walked out of the first audition.
HL: Yeah, I was doing a really crap reading, woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and I just, I was wasting my time, so I stood up and left, and said ‘I am extremely sorry and extremely embarrassed about doing a lousy job and I got to get out of here.’ And so I stood
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E: Keri Russell I also might be talking with soon. And uh, you did Roar with her, right? Which I’ve actually never seen.
HL: Yeah, not a lot of people did [laughs… then spills out an entire box of matches trying to light his cigarette] You have no idea, I spill shit, I drop matches, I break glasses like you would not believe.
E: Are you clumsy?
HL: Oh yeah, hopelessly clumsy.
Young Heath Ledger Pt 7
Heath Ledger Interview
By EC Gladstone
EG: What’s the last movie you saw?
HL; Uh, Man on the Moon, actually, on the plane. It was alright. You know, Jim Carrey was good. I don’t know much about um, Andy Kaufman, because we didn’t really get a lot of him in Australia. So I don’t really have anything to run him off.
EG: Listen to any music?
HL: Oh loads I mean, my favorite kind
Young Heath Ledger Pt 8
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
Young Heath Ledger Pt 9
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
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