I Am Heath Ledger
1
Hello.
Yeah.
Uh, we're going to go
on a mission right now.
Uh, so will you come with me?
Oh.
You will.
So I'm going down
the street, and I get a hit.
Heath, Heath, Heath...
and, sure enough,
the next day, I said,
"I'm going to hear about
something...Heath.
There's something going on."
The next day, I got your email.
I honestly think
that the earth is off axis.
I think there's something
that is universally
out of alignment...
with what happened.
I'm not supposed to be
talking about this with you.
This is...
This isn't supposed
to be being made.
This is f***ed up.
Like, this is not something
that is supposed
to be happening right now.
I'm tearing up
Heath was
the most alive human...
and if it wasn't on the edge,
it didn't interest him.
If there wasn't a risk,
some type of risk involved,
he had no time for it.
He went all the way out
in the time that he had.
He went all the way to the edge.
Some people
are just bigger than...
the world has room for.
Still alive who you love
Still alive who you love
He already
had this vision
as to where he was going to be.
He had these little shiny stars
on the ceiling
that he put up
in this old house.
He said, you know,
"That's where I'm going to be."
He said, "I'm going
to be in the film industry,"
and he said, "I'm going
to be a film actor."
Heath used to follow
his sister Kate, you know,
all her productions
that she was at at school.
Heath being in the front row
like this, for every single one.
"That's what I want to do.
I can't wait
'til I can do that."
He excelled
in everything he did.
Chess was his biggest passion.
"Please,
just let me win one game.
Why are you just, like,
thinking of it at this level?"
Great at art,
amazing athlete...
Heath used to get into scraps.
He was a good fighter.
I remember the conversations
about Heath wanting
to leave school
and travel across Australia.
I was quite shocked
at the time because he was 17.
It was like trying
to settle a wild stallion
at the time.
You may as well
make a friend of them
and support them
as best you can and love them,
and let's hope
that everything turns out.
I've got nothing
to run away from in Perth.
I love my family.
I love my friends.
I love the city.
It's just there was all this
going on outside of that,
and I just had to be part of it.
Heath and Trevor,
they were out
to conquer the world,
the two of them.
Pretty much waited for the day
for me to finish school,
and he was like,
"Let's go to Sydney."
It was literally
jumping in our car
and planting the foot down
and just bolting out.
I wanted to just get out there
and do it.
March, march
Said march, march
From there,
Fists in the air
as we march on
We're going to Bondi.
We're just starting there.
Roll together.
Come on in, boys and girls.
You get what you want.
He took me
to all these auditions,
all these interviews...
Never asked.
He just did it.
He got a role
in an American TV series, Roar.
He had the lead role.
Action!
You'll be lucky
if you live that long.
Great. Cut!
Now he's an actor.
It was serious.
We went to the Gold Coast.
We were put up in a two-
bedroom high-rise apartment
overlooking the ocean.
Money, as a 17-year-old,
was impressive.
"Wow, here we are."
Everything
kept moving forward.
Hello.
Lisa was a real woman,
very classy.
He looked up to her.
They fell in love
really quickly.
She guided him.
She could see
the potential in him.
Lisa, where are we going?
She took his hand
and opened a lot of doors.
He followed her from Australia.
She was, like, "Come to L.A."
Dumb-looking photo.
We march on
I never moved there
expecting anything to happen.
I kind of went there
with the attitude
of "Well,
I've got nothing to lose."
Heath arrived at some odd hour,
and he turns around
and looks at me with a big smile
and says "Hello!"
Of course,
the first thing I noticed
was his gigantic smile.
My roommate, Lisa Zane,
knew, in her words,
that he was going to clean up,
meaning
be successful in Hollywood.
I think
she was the first to know that.
Hello.
How was your day?
Oh, it was fun.
There's a book called
The Sentimental Education,
and I feel
that's what he got from Lisa.
Lisa took him
to the Venice Carnevale...
and they shot
8-millimeter film...
and would wear the costumes...
and, to me,
that was a part of what
created him as an actor.
I gave him my friend's script,
He read the script and said,
"I really like
the role of Patrick,"
and I said,
"Isn't Patrick the lead?"
He said,
"Yes, Patrick's the lead,
and that's the part I want,"
and when he came back
from the audition,
he said, "I got Patrick,"
and I was like, "Really?
You got the lead?"
and that's when I realized
that Heath was...
different.
No offence or anything.
I mean, I know everyone
digs your sister,
but, um...
she's without.
Maybe we should do
this another time.
Sometimes
people break through
because of one thing,
whether it's good looks
or talent or timing or...
you know, who knows,
but he sort of had
everything down.
One of the most powerful things
for an actor,
particularly for a man,
is their voice...
I've thrown a football, what,
a few times in my life, so...
And their physicality...
And their, you know,
level of masculinity,
and he had all of those things
in spades.
There was a bunch of kids
staying in a hotel.
Everyone had their own suites,
and he brought everyone
together,
so by the time I got there,
the parties were in his room.
10 Things
was when he really felt
that, "Okay, this is my career.
I'm an actor now."
By then,
he had his agent, Steve.
He knew the industry,
but he didn't really
know the industry.
He'd only been in it
for 18 months.
It was
pretty early in my career.
You know, he was
one of my early clients.
He was looking for people
that he could trust.
Home to sleep.
It was just obvious.
He just had
this great swagger about him.
So how long have
you been acting?
About...
20 years.
How old are you?
You could tell we were going
to be on to something.
So one of the things
that happens
is when you're good
at something in a movie,
everyone offers you
that same thing.
So he did a great job
being in a teen romantic
comedy, basically,
and so anything that, you know,
sort of resembled
10 Things I Hate About You
came his way,
and, of course, that's exactly
what he didn't want to do next.
He wanted to mix it up
and find a new challenge.
That moment
was a very important next step.
"Okay, what do we want
to do next?
What do we really want to do
if we have a choice?"
People in Hollywood,
they don't like to hear "no,"
you know...
and so I had a lot of fun
saying "no."
He was always very friendly.
He never seemed
out of sorts about it,
but he knew what he didn't want.
He was always very appreciative
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